How to change results per page value in datatables

Question

Datatables has an option to select the number of records shown per page. The default value starts from 10, 25, 50 and 100. How can I change it to start from 5 instead of 10? 10

Answer 1

You can simply add:

"lengthMenu": [ 
 [10, 25, 50, -1], 
 [10, 25, 50, "All"] 
] // remember to add  "," if you initialize more option manually

or if you only want to add this option

$('#tablename').dataTable( {
  "lengthMenu": [ [10, 25, 50, -1], [10, 25, 50, "All"] ]
} );

which will give you a drop-down to select the number of records per page in pagination.