"You'd need to reload the table. There are a few ways to do that 1) After you add the row you can just call $("selector").DataTable() again 2) Depending on how you are loading the additional data you can use the fnReloadAjax method http://datatables.net/plug-ins... 3) $('selector').DataTable()._fnAjaxUpdate() will refresh with the same data source, if that's how you supplied it data 4) you can use ajax.reload in the callback from adding row to update the table http://datatables.net/referenc..." - andy brudtkuhl