title: TypeError: oColumn is undefined When Using jQuery Datatables Library
body: <p>I am having a problem getting the jQuery Datatables library to show up properly on my Joomla website table.
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  <p>The script is half styling my table and then giving up (I am getting the table header colour changed and text colour, but no datatables controls etc).</p>
  
  <p>Firebug is also throwing the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code> TypeError: oColumn is undefined
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In my Joomla templates index.php I have the following in the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="./datatables/js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="./datatables/js/jquery.dataTables.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; 
      jQuery.noConflict();                
      jQuery(document).ready(function() {
      jQuery('#staff_table').dataTable({
          "bLengthChange": true,
          "bFilter": true,
          "bSort": true,
          "bInfo": true,
          "bAutoWidth": true
          } );
      } );
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The HTML / PHP looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h3&gt;Members of Staff&lt;/h3&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;If you're looking for a member of staff at Tower Road Academy, you'll find their details here.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;table class="staff_table" id="staff_table"&gt;
      &lt;tr class="staff_table_head"&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;Job Title&lt;/th&gt;
          &lt;th&gt;Email Address&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  
      &lt;?php
          $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM itsnb_chronoforms_data_addstaffmember");
  
          while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
          { 
          echo '&lt;tr&gt;';  
          echo '&lt;td&gt;' . $row['staff_name'] . '&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;' . $row['staff_job'] . '&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a     href=mailto:"' . $row['staff_email'] . '"&gt;' . $row['staff_email'] . '&lt;/a&gt;' . '&lt;/td&gt;';
          echo '&lt;/tr&gt;';
          }
      ?&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  </code></pre>