Datatable horizontal scroll

DataTables has the ability to display tables with horizontal scrolling, which is very useful when you have a wide table, but want to limit it to a limited horizontal display area. To enable x-scrolling simply set the scrollX parameter to whatever you want the container wrapper width to be (this should be 100% in almost all cases with the width constrained by the container element).

HTML

<table id="dtHorizontalExample" class="table table-striped table-bordered table-sm" cellspacing="0"
  width="100%">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>First name</th>
      <th>Last name</th>
      <th>Position</th>
      <th>Office</th>
      <th>Age</th>
      <th>Start date</th>
      <th>Salary</th>
      <th>Extn.</th>
      <th>E-mail</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Tiger</td>
      <td>Nixon</td>
      <td>System Architect</td>
      <td>Edinburgh</td>
      <td>61</td>
      <td>2011/04/25</td>
      <td>$320,800</td>
      <td>5421</td>
      <td>t.nixon@datatables.net</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Garrett</td>
      <td>Winters</td>
      <td>Accountant</td>
      <td>Tokyo</td>
      <td>63</td>
      <td>2011/07/25</td>
      <td>$170,750</td>
      <td>8422</td>
      <td>g.winters@datatables.net</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Ashton</td>
      <td>Cox</td>
      <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
      <td>San Francisco</td>
      <td>66</td>
      <td>2009/01/12</td>
      <td>$86,000</td>
      <td>1562</td>
      <td>a.cox@datatables.net</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Cedric</td>
      <td>Kelly</td>
      <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
      <td>Edinburgh</td>
      <td>22</td>
      <td>2012/03/29</td>
      <td>$433,060</td>
      <td>6224</td>
      <td>c.kelly@datatables.net</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

JS

$(document).ready(function () {
  $('#dtHorizontalExample').DataTable({
    "scrollX": true
  });
  $('.dataTables_length').addClass('bs-select');
});

CSS

.dtHorizontalExampleWrapper {
  max-width: 600px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}
#dtHorizontalExample th, td {
  white-space: nowrap;
}
table.dataTable thead .sorting:after,
table.dataTable thead .sorting:before,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_asc:after,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_asc:before,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_asc_disabled:after,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_asc_disabled:before,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_desc:after,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_desc:before,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_desc_disabled:after,
table.dataTable thead .sorting_desc_disabled:before {
 bottom: .5em;
}