Select example Internationalisation

The DataTables information element (info) shows the end user summary information about the tables state. Generally this is information about the table's paging state, but Select has the ability to augment that information with details about the items selected in the table.

By default Select will show a count for the number of rows, columns and cells selected in the table (only if one or more items are selected). The text shown can be configured through the language.select.rows, language.select.columns and language.select.cells options allowing it to be fully internationalised or simply customised to your needs.

The value for each option can be given as a simple string, but more usefully as an object with parameters for the strings to be used the number of items selected. This example uses a default string of Selected %d rows (%d is replaced by the number) for all but 0 and 1 rows selected which have their own custom strings.

The display of selected item summary information can be disabled using the select.info option.

NamePositionOfficeAgeStart dateSalary
NamePositionOfficeAgeStart dateSalary
Airi Satou Accountant Tokyo 33 2008/11/28 $162,700
Angelica Ramos Chief Executive Officer (CEO) London 47 2009/10/09 $1,200,000
Ashton Cox Junior Technical Author San Francisco 66 2009/01/12 $86,000
Bradley Greer Software Engineer London 41 2012/10/13 $132,000
Brenden Wagner Software Engineer San Francisco 28 2011/06/07 $206,850
Brielle Williamson Integration Specialist New York 61 2012/12/02 $372,000
Bruno Nash Software Engineer London 38 2011/05/03 $163,500
Caesar Vance Pre-Sales Support New York 21 2011/12/12 $106,450
Cara Stevens Sales Assistant New York 46 2011/12/06 $145,600
Cedric Kelly Senior Javascript Developer Edinburgh 22 2012/03/29 $433,060
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

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$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        select: true,
        language: {
            select: {
                rows: {
                    _: "You have selected %d rows",
                    0: "Click a row to select it",
                    1: "Only 1 row selected"
                }
            }
        }
    } );
} );

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:

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