Later versions of dataTables have the following language settings (taken from here):
"infoEmpty" - displayed when there are no records in the table"zeroRecords" - displayed when there no records matching the filteringe.g.
$('#example').DataTable( {
"language": {
"infoEmpty": "No records available - Got it?",
}
});
Note: As the property names do not contain any special characters you can remove the quotes:
$('#example').DataTable( {
language: {
infoEmpty: "No records available - Got it?",
}
});