“Uncaught TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'length' in ” triggered by Datatables plugin and jQuery 1.11.3

Question

I\'m using the jQuery Datatables plugin to enable pagination, sorting and searching with my tables. The elements are showing up but not working, and the pagination only sometime

Answer 1

I had this exact same issue but jQuery version was not the culprit for me. In my case, I was incorrectly serializing the form. The code ended up with this error was:

$('#form_name').serialize()

Whereas I should have used.

$('#form_name').serializeArray()

I did this and my issue was resolved.

Just throwing out this little piece that I ignored. Could help someone out there.