unshift()

Add one or more items to the start of an API instance's result set.

1.10 unshift( value_1 [, value_2 [, ...] ] ) Add one or more items to the start of an API instance's result set. Item to add to the API instance's result set. Additional item(s) to add to the API instance's result set. Use as many parameters as you require to add additional items. The length of the modified API instance Just as with Javascript arrays', since the DataTables API object is "array like", items can be added to a result set using this method. *Unshifting* an item onto an API instance adds it to the start of the result set. Items can be added at the end of the result set using `dt-api push()` if required. This method is a proxy for the Javascript `Array.prototype.unshift` method and is provided as a utility method for the DataTables API. For more information about the original method, please refer to the [Mozilla MDN documentation for `unshift`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/unshift).