jQuery datatables: test if datatables plugin is initialized

Question

I want to check if a table element with say, id=\"datatable\" is datatables-initialized. Something like this:

if ($(\'#datatable\').dataTable().initialized) {
           


        

Answer 1

After you've called .dataTable() does it do anything to the table that makes it identifiable? i.e. does it add a new class "initialised" or something like that? If so, you could just loop through the items like so:

$('.datatable').each(
    function(index, element) {
        var _table = $(element);
        if (_table.hasClass('initialised')) {
            // Do stuff
        } else {
            // Do stuff
        }
    }
);

Apologies if this isn't what you mean. It's not clear in your question what "dataTable()" actually does.