DataTable jQuery Plugin - JavaScript inside a table cell

If the data source is AJAX and the cell has JavaScript, the node is created and assigned directly via nTd.innerHTML=data so any JavaScript code inside the cell won't get executed. To correct than you need the custom fnRender for that column. fnRender: function (o) { var oTmp = document.createElement("div"); oTmp.innerHTML = o.aData[5]; // just to let the browser parse HTML for me var aScripts = oTmp.getElementsByTagName("script"); for (var i=0;i < aScripts.length;i++) { // similar to jQuery core: inject into head, then remove (avoid re-eval) jQuery.globalEval(aScripts[i].text || aScripts[i].textContent || aScripts[i].innerHTML || "" ); if (aScripts[i].parentNode) { aScripts[i].parentNode.removeChild(aScripts[i]); } } // rof return oTmp.innerHTML; }