How to use SimplePagination jquery

One thing to note about this plugin, which a few people may get confused about, is that it technically doesn’t implement pagination itself. It generates a page navigator and provides the means, via jQuery events, to simply hook it up to our own pagination functionality.

Assuming you’ve followed the steps 1 (and 2 if you want the CSS styling) required from the simplePagination link you included in your question then the following jQuery will do what you need:

jQuery(function($) {
    // Consider adding an ID to your table
    // incase a second table ever enters the picture.
    var items = $("table tbody tr");

    var numItems = items.length;
    var perPage = 2;

    // Only show the first 2 (or first `per_page`) items initially.
    items.slice(perPage).hide();

    // Now setup the pagination using the `.pagination-page` div.
    $(".pagination-page").pagination({
        items: numItems,
        itemsOnPage: perPage,
        cssStyle: "light-theme",

        // This is the actual page changing functionality.
        onPageClick: function(pageNumber) {
            // We need to show and hide `tr`s appropriately.
            var showFrom = perPage * (pageNumber - 1);
            var showTo = showFrom + perPage;

            // We'll first hide everything...
            items.hide()
                 // ... and then only show the appropriate rows.
                 .slice(showFrom, showTo).show();
        }
    });



    // EDIT: Let's cover URL fragments (i.e. #page-3 in the URL).
    // More thoroughly explained (including the regular expression) in: 
    // https://github.com/bilalakil/bin/tree/master/simplepagination/page-fragment/index.html

    // We'll create a function to check the URL fragment
    // and trigger a change of page accordingly.
    function checkFragment() {
        // If there's no hash, treat it like page 1.
        var hash = window.location.hash || "#page-1";

        // We'll use a regular expression to check the hash string.
        hash = hash.match(/^#page-(\d+)$/);

        if(hash) {
            // The `selectPage` function is described in the documentation.
            // We've captured the page number in a regex group: `(\d+)`.
            $(".pagination-page").pagination("selectPage", parseInt(hash[1]));
        }
    };

    // We'll call this function whenever back/forward is pressed...
    $(window).bind("popstate", checkFragment);

    // ... and we'll also call it when the page has loaded
    // (which is right now).
    checkFragment();



});

You can find a running example here, and a more thorough guide on simplePagination here if you want to more thoroughly understand how this all actually works.

EDIT: Added a section of code to handle URL fragments (on reload and on back/forward) as Mike O’Connor highlighted the need for. You can see a live example of URL fragment handling here.

EDIT 2: If you need cross-browser compatibility for the back/forward fragment updating (i.e. IE11…), include the History.js script before implementing the above code. Thanks to Mike O’Connor for that 🙂

EDIT 3: If you’re dynamically adding or removing content you’ll need to manually update the paginator to reflect these changes. I’ve whipped up an example for that too. You can see it running here.