Add html element within td after Ajax request in jQuery DataTables

Question

I want to add html element within td after get response from ajax.

Result will be somethings like:

<tr>
<td class="mycus-class" data-title="abc"><span class="mycus-class2">XYZ</span></td>
<td class="mycus-class" data-title="ghi"><span class="mycus-class2">GKL</span></td>
.....
</tr>

Answer 1

Very easy with a render() function, here a little demo :

var data = [
    { firstName: 'john', lastName : 'doe' }
]

var table = $('#example').DataTable({
    data : data,
    columns : [
       {  data : 'firstName',
          render : function(data, type, row) {
              return '<span class="mycus-class2">'+data+'</span>'
          }    
       },
       {  data : 'lastName' }
   ]        
})  

http://jsfiddle.net/e9be48oq/

---

You can target multiple columns in one call :

columnDefs : [
   { targets : [0,3,4,5],
     render : function(data, type, row) {
        return '<span class="mycus-class2">'+data+'</span>'
     }     
   }
]

Answer 2

  "fnRowCallback": function (nRow, aData, iDisplayIndex, iDisplayIndexFull) {
                console.log(aData[1]);
                if (aData[1] == "Imported")
                {
                    // $('td').css('background-color', '#FBE9E7');
                     $(nRow).find('td:eq(1)').addClass('label label-success');
                } else if (aData[1] == "Inactive") {
                    $(nRow).find('td:eq(1)').addClass('label label-danger');
                } else if(aData[1] == "Exported") {
                   $(nRow).find('td:eq(1)').addClass('label label-primary');
                }else{
                  $(nRow).find('td:eq(1)').html('<span class="label label-default">'+aData[1]+'</span>');
                    // $.addClass('label label-default');
                }

            },