Responsive example Class control

You can tell Responsive what columns to want to be visible on different devices through the use of class names on the columns. The breakpoints are horizontal screen resolutions and the defaults are set for common devices:

  • desktop x >= 1024px
  • tablet-l (landscape) 768 <= x < 1024
  • tablet-p (portrait) 480 <= x < 768
  • mobile-l (landscape) 320 <= x < 480
  • mobile-p (portrait) x < 320

You may leave the -[lp] option from the end if you wish to just target all tablet or mobile devices. Additionally to may add min-, max- or not- as a prefix to the class name to perform logic operations. For example not-mobile would cause a column to appear as visible on desktop and tablet devices, while min-tablet-l would require at least a horizontal width of 768 for the browser window to be shown, and be shown at all sizes larger.

Additionally, there are three special class names:

Please refer to the Responsive manual for further details of these options.

This example shows the start date and salary columns visible on a desktop only - office and age require a tablet, while the position column requires a phone in landscape or larger. The name column is always visible.

This can be useful if you wish to change the format of the data shown on different devices, for example using a combination of mobile and not-mobile on two different columns would allow information to be formatted suitable for each device type.

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

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$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        "ajax": "../../../../examples/ajax/data/objects.txt",
        "columns": [
            { "data": "name" },
            { "data": "position" },
            { "data": "office" },
            { "data": "extn" },
            { "data": "start_date" },
            { "data": "salary" },
            { "data": "extn" }
        ]
    } );
} );

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