Footer callback

Through the use of the header and footer callback manipulation functions provided by DataTables (headerCallback and footerCallback), it is possible to perform some powerful and useful data manipulation functions, such as summarising data in the table.

The example below shows a footer callback being used to total the data for a column (both the visible and the hidden data) using the column().data() API method and column().footer() for writing the value into the footer.

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Ashton Cox Junior Technical Author San Francisco $86,000
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Brielle Williamson Integration Specialist New York $372,000
Herrod Chandler Sales Assistant San Francisco $137,500
Rhona Davidson Integration Specialist Tokyo $327,900
Colleen Hurst Javascript Developer San Francisco $205,500
Sonya Frost Software Engineer Edinburgh $103,600
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Serge Baldwin Data Coordinator Singapore $138,575
Zenaida Frank Software Engineer New York $125,250
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Jennifer Acosta Junior Javascript Developer Edinburgh $75,650
Cara Stevens Sales Assistant New York $145,600
Hermione Butler Regional Director London $356,250
Lael Greer Systems Administrator London $103,500
Jonas Alexander Developer San Francisco $86,500
Shad Decker Regional Director Edinburgh $183,000
Michael Bruce Javascript Developer Singapore $183,000
Donna Snider Customer Support New York $112,000
Total:
  • Javascript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Ajax
  • Server-side script
  • Comments

The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

$('#example').DataTable({ footerCallback: function (row, data, start, end, display) { var api = this.api(); // Remove the formatting to get integer data for summation var intVal = function (i) { return typeof i === 'string' ? i.replace(/[\$,]/g, '') * 1 : typeof i === 'number' ? i : 0; }; // Total over all pages total = api .column(4) .data() .reduce(function (a, b) { return intVal(a) + intVal(b); }, 0); // Total over this page pageTotal = api .column(4, { page: 'current' }) .data() .reduce(function (a, b) { return intVal(a) + intVal(b); }, 0); // Update footer $(api.column(4).footer()).html( '$' + pageTotal + ' ( $' + total + ' total)' ); } });
new DataTable('#example', { footerCallback: function (row, data, start, end, display) { let api = this.api(); // Remove the formatting to get integer data for summation let intVal = function (i) { return typeof i === 'string' ? i.replace(/[\$,]/g, '') * 1 : typeof i === 'number' ? i : 0; }; // Total over all pages total = api .column(4) .data() .reduce((a, b) => intVal(a) + intVal(b), 0); // Total over this page pageTotal = api .column(4, { page: 'current' }) .data() .reduce((a, b) => intVal(a) + intVal(b), 0); // Update footer api.column(4).footer().innerHTML = '$' + pageTotal + ' ( $' + total + ' total)'; } });

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:

    The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:

    This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:

    th { white-space: nowrap; }

    The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:

      This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.

      The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.

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