Datatable not working on ajax call

Issue

I use Datatable in my web application.
Following is my simple code to get data using ajax.

<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('#mytable').DataTable();
    } );
</script>

<body>
  <h2>AJAX SELECT</h2><hr>
  <div align="center">
    Select Team :
    <select name="select" id ='teamSelect'>
        <option value="">Select Value</option>
        <option value="op2">Company 1</option>
    </select>
  </div>
  <div id='tableContainer' align="center"></div>

 <script>
    $(function() {
        $("#teamSelect").bind("change", function() {
            $.ajax({
                type: "GET", 
                url: "getData.php",
                "dataSrc": "tableData",
                success: function(html) {
                    $("#tableContainer").html(html);
                }
            });
        });

    });
</script>

and Getdata.php Code

<table id="mytable" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="50%">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>First name</th>
        <th>Last Name</th>
        <th>Email</th>
    </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td>Airi Satou</td>
        <td>Accountant</td>
        <td>Tokyo</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Brielle Williamson</td>
        <td>Integration Specialist</td>
        <td>New York</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Herrod Chandler</td>
        <td>Sales Assistant</td>
        <td>San Francisco</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Rhona Davidson</td>
        <td>Integration Specialist</td>
        <td>Tokyo</td>
    </tr>
</tbody>

I Link Jquery, datatable css and js both.but still It return output as normal HTML table.
No console error founded.
I need that data in datatable. So how can i get that.

and i also tested datatable in index.php page. It working quite good.

Solution

You are initializing datatable before table added. You need to initialize it in ajax

remove following script

<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('#mytable').DataTable();
    } );
</script>

update ajax as below:

<script>
    $(function() {
        $("#teamSelect").bind("change", function() {
            $.ajax({
                type: "GET", 
                url: "getData.php",
                "dataSrc": "tableData",
                success: function(html) {
                    $("#tableContainer").html(html);
                    $('#mytable').DataTable({ 
                      "destroy": true, //use for reinitialize datatable
                   });
                }
            });
        });

    });
</script>

Answered By – B. Desai

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