Custom Extensions

Internationalisation

from itables import show
from itables.sample_dfs import get_countries

df = get_countries(html=False)

DataTables controls can use a different language than English. To display the table controls in another language, go to the internationalisation plug-ins page and find the language URL, like e.g.

show(
    df,
    language={"url": "https://cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/2.0.2/i18n/fr-FR.json"},
)

	region	country	capital	longitude	latitude
code
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Tip

You can also use the internationalization in the offline mode. Download the translation file, then set opt.language accordingly:

import json
import itables.options as opt

with open("fr-FR.json") as fp:
    opt.language = json.load(fp)

Creating a custom DataTables bundle

To use custom extensions in the offline mode, you will need to create a bundle of jQuery, DataTables, and the desired extensions.

To do so, make a copy of packages/dt_for_itables:

$ tree

.
├── LICENSE
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
├── README.md
└── src
    └── index.js

Add or remove the desired extensions in package.json and src/index.js. To do this, you can use the DataTables download page and follow the instructions for the NPM download method.

For instance, say you want to bundle the PDF export button. Change src/index.js to this code:

import JSZip from 'jszip';
import jQuery from 'jquery';
import pdfMake from 'pdfmake';
import DataTable from 'datatables.net-dt';
import 'datatables.net-dt/css/dataTables.dataTables.min.css';

import 'datatables.net-buttons-dt';
import 'datatables.net-buttons/js/buttons.html5.mjs';
import 'datatables.net-buttons/js/buttons.print.mjs';
import 'datatables.net-buttons-dt/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css';

DataTable.Buttons.jszip(JSZip);
DataTable.Buttons.pdfMake(pdfMake);

pdfMake.vfs = pdfFonts.pdfMake.vfs;

export { DataTable, jQuery };

and run these commands:

# Install the dependencies in package.json
npm install

# Install the additional dependencies
npm install pdfmake --save

# Create dt_bundle.js and dt_bundle.css
npm run build

Finally, you can either deploy dt_bundle.js and dt_bundle.css on an http server and pass the URL of dt_bundle.js as the dt_url option to show, or, in the offline mode, pass the path to dt_bundle.js as the dt_bundle argument of the init_notebook_mode method (in either case you can set the values permanently on itables.options).