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• kthorngren Posts: 20,277Questions: 26Answers: 4,766

  December 2020 Answer ✓

  The deferRender docs state this:

  if you load a data set with 10,000 rows, but a paging display length of only 10 records, rather than create all 10,000 rows, when deferred rendering is enabled, DataTables will create only 10

  In general you will enable scrollY and disable paging. Without paging deferRender will be negated as all the rows are on the single page. I wasn't sure of this so I created this example:
  http://live.datatables.net/jarelilo/1/edit

  You can see with paging false all the rows are rendered. Removing paging: false will render 10 rows but scrolling will be limited to the current page.

  Kevin
• Loren Maxwell Posts: 387Questions: 94Answers: 10

  December 2020

  Thanks, Kevin -- I was hoping this could be a nice lightweight replacement for Scroller, which it is, but being able to take advantage of deferRender would have completed it!