Preamble

When highlighting rows using CSS :hover, you need to be aware of the sorting class which is applied to elements in the column currently being sorted (assuming it is enabled - it is by default). This example shows how to consider this in CSS, with highlighting for each row, and a little tint for the sorting column to maintain it's visibility as the column currently being sorted upon.

Live example

Initialisation code

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#example').dataTable();
} );

CSS (note that for this example the selector ".ex_highlight" is used to limit the CSS here to just this example.

.ex_highlight #example tbody tr.even:hover, #example tbody tr.even td.highlighted {
	background-color: #ECFFB3;
}

.ex_highlight #example tbody tr.odd:hover, #example tbody tr.odd td.highlighted {
	background-color: #E6FF99;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover {
	background-color: #ECFFB3;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_1 {
	background-color: #DDFF75;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_2 {
	background-color: #E7FF9E;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.even:hover td.sorting_3 {
	background-color: #E2FF89;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover {
	background-color: #E6FF99;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_1 {
	background-color: #D6FF5C;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_2 {
	background-color: #E0FF84;
}

.ex_highlight_row #example tr.odd:hover td.sorting_3 {
	background-color: #DBFF70;
}

Other examples

Basic initialisation

• Zero configuration
• Feature enablement
• Sorting data
• Multi-column sorting
• Multiple tables
• Hidden columns
• DOM positioning
• State saving
• Alternative pagination styles
• Scrolling: Horizontal / Vertical / Both / Themed
• Change language information (internationalisation)
• ThemeRoller themes (Smoothness)

Advanced initialisation

• Events (pre initialisation)
• Events (post initialisation)
• Column rendering
• Sorting without HTML tags
• Multiple table controls (sDom)
• Defining length menu options
• Custom toolbar (element) around table
• Row highlighting with CSS
• Column grouping through col/row spans
• Row grouping
• Row callback
• Footer callback
• Change language information from a file (internationalisation)

Data sources

• DOM
• Javascript array
• Ajax source
• Server side processing

Server-side processing

• Obtain server-side data
• Add extra HTTP variables
• Use HTTP POST
• Custom column ordering (in callback data)
• Pipelining data (reduce Ajax calls for paging)
• Show and hide details about a particular record
• User selectable rows (multiple rows)

API

• Dynamically add a new row
• Individual column filtering (using "input" elements)
• Individual column filtering (using "select" elements)
• Highlight rows and columns
• Show and hide details about a particular record
• User selectable rows (multiple rows)
• User selectable rows (single row) and delete rows
• Editable rows (with jEditable)
• Submit form with elements in table
• Index column (static number column)
• Show and hide columns dynamically
• API function use in initialisation object (callback)
• DataTables scrolling and tabs
• Regular expression filtering

Plug-ins

• Add custom API functions
• Sorting and type detection
• Custom pagination controls
• Range filtering / custom filtering
• Live DOM sorting
• Automatic HTML type detection

Please refer to the DataTables documentation for full information about its API properties and methods.