Events assigned to the table can be exceptionally useful for user interaction, however you must be aware that DataTables will add and remove rows from the DOM as they are needed (i.e. when paging only the visible elements are actually available in the DOM). As such, this can lead to the odd hiccup when working with events.

Each column has an optional rendering control called columns.render which can be used to process the content of each cell before the data is used. columns.render has a wide array of options available to it for rendering different types of data orthogonally (ordering, searching, display etc), but it can be used very simply to manipulate the content of a cell, as shown here.

As described in the basic DOM positioning example, you can use the DOM initialization parameter to move DataTable features around the table to where and what you want.

As well as being able to pass language information to DataTables through the language initialization option, you can also store the language information in a file, which DataTables can load by Ajax using the language.url option.

Although DataTables doesn't have row grouping built-in (picking one of the many methods available would overly limit the DataTables core), it is most certainly possible to give the look and feel of row grouping.

Exporting data from a table can often be a key part of a complex application. The button extensions for DataTables provide three plug-ins that provide overlapping functionality for data export.