Title: Basic question
Last modified: December 4, 2018

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# Basic question

 *  Resolved [oscare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscare/)
 * (@oscare)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-question-11/)
 * I started this conversation a few months ago and then I left this project for
   something else, but now I am back on this issue.
    My very basic, initial question:
   If I have:
 * [wp-datatable id=”table1″]
    responsive: true [/wp-datatable]
 * Where is “table1” supposed to exist? it should be already in the page, in the
   html?
    That becomes a more important question if I am generating the json from
   a database

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 *  Plugin Author [samsk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samsk/)
 * (@samsk)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-question-11/#post-10945814)
 * Hi,
    yes, table with id “table1” should already exists, probably already filled
   with data, or only as empty element for loading them later via datatables xhr
   request.
 *  Thread Starter [oscare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscare/)
 * (@oscare)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-question-11/#post-10946309)
 * So, the ID is coming from some <table id=”example”> element?
 *  Plugin Author [samsk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samsk/)
 * (@samsk)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-question-11/#post-10952542)
 * Exactly

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 * Last reply from: [samsk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samsk/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-question-11/#post-10952542)
 * Status: resolved