Buttons example Copy button internationalisation

The copyHtml5 button type operates by immediately copying the content's of the DataTable to the user's clipboard via the execCommand method. For older browsers that don't support this ability, the table's data is copied to a hidden text area and the user is invited to use their system clipboard to copy the data (i.e. ctrl/cmd + c).

The messages shown to the end user can be customised using the language configuration option of DataTables. The following options are available:

  • language.buttons.copyTitle - the title text of the info box
  • language.buttons.copySuccess - message to display when the copy is complete
  • language.buttons.copyKey - instructions on how to copy to clipboard for older browsers.

This example uses these parameters to set French language strings for the copy message (with apologies to our native language French speaking friends! This is Google translated text - if you have an better translation, please let me know!).

NamePositionOfficeAgeStart dateSalary
NamePositionOfficeAgeStart dateSalary
Airi Satou Accountant Tokyo 33 2008/11/28 $162,700
Angelica Ramos Chief Executive Officer (CEO) London 47 2009/10/09 $1,200,000
Ashton Cox Junior Technical Author San Francisco 66 2009/01/12 $86,000
Bradley Greer Software Engineer London 41 2012/10/13 $132,000
Brenden Wagner Software Engineer San Francisco 28 2011/06/07 $206,850
Brielle Williamson Integration Specialist New York 61 2012/12/02 $372,000
Bruno Nash Software Engineer London 38 2011/05/03 $163,500
Caesar Vance Pre-Sales Support New York 21 2011/12/12 $106,450
Cara Stevens Sales Assistant New York 46 2011/12/06 $145,600
Cedric Kelly Senior Javascript Developer Edinburgh 22 2012/03/29 $433,060
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

$(document).ready(function() { $('#example').DataTable( { dom: 'Bfrtip', buttons: [ 'copyHtml5' ], language: { buttons: { copyTitle: 'Ajouté au presse-papiers', copyKeys: 'Appuyez sur <i>ctrl</i> ou <i>\u2318</i> + <i>C</i> pour copier les données du tableau à votre presse-papiers. <br><br>Pour annuler, cliquez sur ce message ou appuyez sur Echap.', copySuccess: { _: 'Copiés %d rangs', 1: 'Copié 1 rang' } } } } ); } );

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.