jquery DataTable function options are not working <p>I want to change some settings of my table with DataTable function, but the arguments</p> <pre><code>paging: false, scrollY: 400 </code></pre> <p>are not having any effect on the table whatsoever. </p> <hr> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset=utf-8 /&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/css/jquery.dataTables.css"&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;table id='example'&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th class='site_name'&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Url &lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Type&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Last modified&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" charset="utf8" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script&gt; $("#example").DataTable({ "aaData":[ ["Sitepoint","http://sitepoint.com","Blog","2013-10-15 10:30:00"], ["Flippa","http://flippa.com","Marketplace","null"], ["99designs","http://99designs.com","Marketplace","null"], ["Learnable","http://learnable.com","Online courses","null"], ["Rubysource","http://rubysource.com","Blog","2013-01-10 12:00:00"] ], paging: false, scrollY: 400 } ); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <hr> <p>I took the code from <a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/working-jquery-datatables/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.sitepoint.com/working-jquery-datatables/</a> and the instructions for the options from <a href="https://datatables.net/manual/options" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://datatables.net/manual/options</a>.</p>