Locale based number display

DataTables has a built in number rendering type that can help to display numbers in a format your end users are familiar and comfortable with. For example, in many parts of the world . is used as a thousands separator, while in other parts , is used. The number renderer can automatically determine the correct display for your end users and display them as such.

The DataTable.render.number helper can take no arguments at all for fully automatic display, or up to five parameters for finer grained control. In this example the thousands and decimal separator (first two parameters) are defined as null to let DataTables determine what to use, zero decimal places and a prefix of $.

See the renderers documentation for full details about the renderers available in DataTables.

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

$('#example').DataTable({ columnDefs: [ { target: 4, render: DataTable.render.date() }, { target: 5, render: DataTable.render.number(null, null, 0, '$') } ] });
new DataTable('#example', { columnDefs: [ { target: 4, render: DataTable.render.date() }, { target: 5, render: DataTable.render.number(null, null, 0, '$') } ] });

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.

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