Datatables.net Buttons not displaying

Question

I cannot get buttons to display in a datatables.net table. I have tried adding every script related to buttons and every initialization example given on datatables.net, but they

Answer 1

You need to add dom: 'B' at DataTable initialization.

The snippet:

$('#myTable').DataTable({
    dom: 'B',
    buttons: ['copy', 'csv', 'excel']
});

    

    

        
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