Reinit Datatables with plugin?

Question

I have a datatables initialized by other JS (I can't add any option to initializing function), and now I want to add a rowReorder plugin. Can I do that without destroying it and creating again?

Answer 1

It is doable if the DataTable instance is stored in a accessible variable. Example: If that "other JS" have passed the instance to a global variable called table then you can

new $.fn.dataTable.RowReorder( table, {} );

{} is an object literal holding options for rowReorder, passing an empty literal is the same as rowReorder: true .