How do I edit a table inline?
Inline editing, as shown demonstrated in this section, is designed to allow rapid editing of individual fields in a table. The most common use case is to simply click on the cell you want to edit and then hit return once the edit is complete. This will save the data and the row will be immediately updated.
How do I make a Datatable column editable?
This is done by only calling the inline() method for the cells that you wish to be editable when activated (typically a click). There are a number of methods for doing this, primarily involving the jQuery selector for which cells the event should activate on.