How can I prevent the jquery dataTable plugin from adding row and message when there is no data

Question

Our product owner would like the our empty tables to display just table header when there is no data in table. I can't seem to prevent dataTable from creating a row with "empty..." message.

Here is the code I use to initialize the dataTable. I know some things here are wrong. I have been experimenting. :)

$('#InBox').dataTable({
    "bFilter": false,
    "bPaginate": false,
    "bLengthChange": false,
    "bInfo": false,
    "oLanguage": {
        "sEmptyTable": '',
        "sInfoEmpty": ''
    }
});

Here is some code I tried to put in the init function of the dataTable, but I am not sure how to get it to work.

/* Table is empty - create a row with an empty message in it */
            var anRows[0] = document.createElement('tr');

            if (typeof oSettings.asStripClasses[0] != 'undefined') {
                anRows[0].className = oSettings.asStripClasses[0];
            }

            var nTd = document.createElement('td');
            nTd.setAttribute('valign', "top");
            nTd.colSpan = oSettings.aoColumns.length;
            nTd.className = oSettings.oClasses.sRowEmpty;
            if (oSettings.fnRecordsTotal() > 0) {
                if (oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords.indexOf("_MAX_") != -1)
                    oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords = oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords.replace("_MAX_", oSettings.fnRecordsTotal());
                nTd.innerHTML = oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroFilterRecords;
            } else {
                nTd.innerHTML = oSettings.oLanguage.sZeroRecords;
            }

            anRows[iRowCount].appendChild(nTd);

Dan

Answer 1

try this

$('#InBox').dataTable({
  "bFilter": false,
   "bPaginate": false,
   "bLengthChange": false,
   "bInfo": false,
   "oLanguage": {
    "sEmptyTable": '',
    "sInfoEmpty": ''
   },
   "sEmptyTable": "There are no records",
 });

otherwise you can try this

$('#InBox').dataTable({
  "bFilter": false,
   "bPaginate": false,
   "bLengthChange": false,
   "bInfo": false,
   "oLanguage": {
    "sEmptyTable": '',
    "sInfoEmpty": ''
   }
 });
$('.dataTables_empty').html("No record found.");