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Add to SafariWhen comparing SlickGrid vs DataTables, the Slant community recommends DataTables for most people. In the question“What are the best HTML Grid controls for Excel like editing?” DataTables is ranked 2nd while SlickGrid is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose DataTables is:
DataTables has multiple pagination types; DOM, JS array, AJAX file and server-side processing, localization support, [plugins](http://datatables.net/extensions/), multiple data source options, customizable by CSS, etc.
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Pros
Pro Lots of control over style
Pro Excellent performance
Pro Works with all Frameworks and multiple ports are available
For example, Angular-Slickgrid, React-Slickgrid.
Pro 6pac/SlickGrid fork is now browser native (no longer requires jQuery)
Latest version 4.0 of 6pac/SlickGrid dropped jQuery/jQueryUI requirements, the project now uses browser native code and is now much smaller size.
Pro Slickback integrates Backbone and SlickGrid
Slickback integrates Backbone and SlickGrid.
Pro Highly flexible
DataTables has multiple pagination types; DOM, JS array, AJAX file and server-side processing, localization support, plugins, multiple data source options, customizable by CSS, etc.
Pro Great documentation
DataTables documentation is thorough and very well written.
Pro Search
The fuzzy search is fast and flexible - I haven't found anything like it
Pro Grids within grids
Pro Inline editing
Inline row editing is supported.
Cons
Con May be unsuported
The last commit in to the code was in 2014.
