RowReorder example Basic initialisation

This trivial example shows the use of the rowReorder property being used to enable RowReorder on a DataTable. The first column in the table is a sequence number that provides the basis for the ordering. To change a row's order, simply click and drag the row.

Note that ordering is enabled on all columns in this example - you may wish to restrict ordering to just the sequence column to help prevent potential user confusion if they reorder when the table ordering is performed on a different column.

Seq.NamePositionOfficeStart dateSalary
Seq.NamePositionOfficeStart dateSalary
1 Shou Itou Regional Marketing Tokyo 2011/08/14 $163,000
2 Tiger Nixon System Architect Edinburgh 2011/04/25 $320,800
3 Bruno Nash Software Engineer London 2011/05/03 $163,500
4 Olivia Liang Support Engineer Singapore 2011/02/03 $234,500
5 Gavin Joyce Developer Edinburgh 2010/12/22 $92,575
6 Ashton Cox Junior Technical Author San Francisco 2009/01/12 $86,000
7 Fiona Green Chief Operating Officer (COO) San Francisco 2010/03/11 $850,000
8 Martena Mccray Post-Sales support Edinburgh 2011/03/09 $324,050
9 Hermione Butler Regional Director London 2011/03/21 $356,250
10 Finn Camacho Support Engineer San Francisco 2009/07/07 $87,500
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

$(document).ready(function() { var table = $('#example').DataTable( { rowReorder: true } ); } );

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:

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.