# jQuery DataTables We can use the JavaScript library [**DataTables**](https://www.datatables.net) to generate enhanced tables in HTML. In the example below, we create a table for the `mtcars` data: ```{r cool, results='asis'} library(knitr) kable(mtcars, 'html', table.attr='id="mtcars_table"') ``` Note we assigned an `id` to the table, and next we use the **DataTables** library to tweak the table. ```js ``` Since this is a Markdown vignette, we need to add the JavaScript libraries as well as some additional CSS files to the HTML header, and this can be done via: ```{r} options(markdown.html.header = system.file('misc', 'datatables.html', package = 'knitr')) ``` The file `datatables.html` under the `misc` directory of **knitr** was added to the HTML output. By comparison, below is an ordinary table: ```{r boring, results='asis'} kable(head(mtcars), 'html') ``` This vignette is only a toy example. I'd recommend you to use the **DT** package instead: https://github.com/rstudio/DT