How to show empty data message in Datatables

Question

Suppose i get empty data from server sometimes, i want to display No Data found message in DataTables?. How is this possible?

Answer 1

If you want to customize the message that being shown on empty table use this:

$('#example').dataTable( {
    "oLanguage": {
        "sEmptyTable":     "My Custom Message On Empty Table"
    }
} );

Since Datatable 1.10 you can do the following:

$('#example').DataTable( {
    "language": {
        "emptyTable":     "My Custom Message On Empty Table"
    }
} );

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For the complete availble datatables custom messages for the table take a look at the following link reference/option/language

Answer 2

Later versions of dataTables have the following language settings (taken from here):

• "infoEmpty" - displayed when there are no records in the table
• "zeroRecords" - displayed when there no records matching the filtering

e.g.

$('#example').DataTable( {
    "language": {
        "infoEmpty": "No records available - Got it?",
    }
});

Note: As the property names do not contain any special characters you can remove the quotes:

$('#example').DataTable( {
    language: {
        infoEmpty: "No records available - Got it?",
    }
});