Layout

By default, datatables that don’t fit in one page come with a search box, a pagination control, a table summary, etc. You can select which elements are actually displayed using DataTables’ layout option with e.g.:

import itables

itables.init_notebook_mode()
df = itables.sample_dfs.get_countries()

itables.show(df, layout={"topStart": "search", "topEnd": None})

ⓘ	region	country	capital	longitude	latitude
code
AW	Latin America & Caribbean	Aruba	Oranjestad	-70.016700	12.516700
AF	South Asia	Afghanistan	Kabul	69.176100	34.522800
AO	Sub-Saharan Africa	Angola	Luanda	13.242000	-8.811550
AL	Europe & Central Asia	Albania	Tirane	19.817200	41.331700
AD	Europe & Central Asia	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	1.521800	42.507500
AE	Middle East & North Africa	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	54.370500	24.476400
AR	Latin America & Caribbean	Argentina	Buenos Aires	-58.417300	-34.611800
AM	Europe & Central Asia	Armenia	Yerevan	44.509000	40.159600
AS	East Asia & Pacific	American Samoa	Pago Pago	-170.691000	-14.284600
AG	Latin America & Caribbean	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	-61.845600	17.117500
(198 more rows not shown)

The available positions are topStart, topEnd, bottomStart, bottomEnd. You can also use top2Start, etc… (see more in the DataTables documentation).

Like for the other arguments of show, you can change the default value of the dom option with e.g.:

itables.options.layout =  {
    "topStart": "pageLength",
    "topEnd": "search",
    "bottomStart": "info",
    "bottomEnd": "paging"
}  # (default value)

Tip

The layout option was introduced with itables==2.0 and DataTables==2.0 and replaced the former dom option.