Datatables warning(table id = ‘example’): cannot reinitialise data table

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to fix the error, Datatables warning(table id = ‘example’): cannot reinitialise data table.

Datatables warning(table id = ‘example’): cannot reinitialise data table

The error came while I was trying to retrieve more than 5000 items using Rest API from a SharePoint Online list and was trying to bind the data to DataTables.

Here, I was using the code below:

$('#Employee').DataTable({
	"aaData": response,
	"aoColumns": [
	{
	"mData": "Title"
	}
	]
	});

But it gave the error when I tried to execute the code. It gave error as:

DataTables warning: table id=Employee – Cannot reinitialise DataTable. For more information about this error, please see http://datatables.net/tn/3

To fix the error, you need to add the below attribute.

"bDestroy": true

It will look like below:

$('#Employee').DataTable({
	"aaData": response,
	"bDestroy": true,
	"aoColumns": [
	{
	"mData": "Title"
	}
	]
	});

After this, the error did not come; this fixes the issue Datatables warning(table id = ‘example’): cannot reinitialise data table.

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