The Buttons extension for DataTables provides a common set of options, API methods and styling to display buttons on a page that will interact with a DataTable. The core library provides the based framework upon which plug-ins can built.
There are four plug-ins that are part of the core Buttons software providing various utilities:
Other extensions for DataTables also provide buttons - Editor for example make the create
, edit
and remove
buttons available.
The examples presented here give an introduce to how Buttons can be used, the API and its various core plug-in buttons.