<p>The style of the pagination options that Datatables presents to the end-user can greatly effect the look and feel of your table, as well as, of course, the interaction behaviour. Through the plug-in options you can define your own paging function to create the interaction that you are looking for.</p>
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<li><ahref="#how_to">How to use DataTables plug-in pagination functions</a></li>
<h3>How to use DataTables plug-in pagination functions</h3>
<p>To use a pagination plug-in, you must include the pagination plug-in code from the plug-ins available below, after you load the DataTables library, but before you initialise the DataTable. When initialising the DataTable, you must also tell it to make use of this plug-in, rather than using the default built-in types, by setting the 'sPaginationType' to the value required by the plug-in. As an example the code below makes use of the <ahref="#scrolling">scrolling pagination plug-in</a> saved into a file (<ahref="/examples/plug-ins/paging_plugin.html">live example</a>):</p>