Preamble

Events assigned to the table can be exceptionally useful for user interaction, however you must be aware that DataTables will add and remove rows from the DOM as they are needed (i.e. when paging only the visible elements are actually available in the DOM). As such, this can lead to the odd hiccup when working with events. One of the best ways of dealing with this is through the use of live events, as shown in this example.

Live example

Initialisation code

$(document).ready(function() {
	/* Init DataTables */
	$('#example').dataTable();
	
	/* Add events */
	$('#example tbody tr').live('click', function () {
		var sTitle;
		var nTds = $('td', this);
		var sBrowser = $(nTds[1]).text();
		var sGrade = $(nTds[4]).text();
		
		if ( sGrade == "A" )
			sTitle =  sBrowser+' will provide a first class (A) level of CSS support.';
		else if ( sGrade == "C" )
			sTitle = sBrowser+' will provide a core (C) level of CSS support.';
		else if ( sGrade == "X" )
			sTitle = sBrowser+' does not provide CSS support or has a broken implementation. Block CSS.';
		else
			sTitle = sBrowser+' will provide an undefined level of CSS support.';
		
		alert( sTitle )
	} );
} );

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