How to edit / change default datatable pages message - datatables

Question

I have a datatable, and I would like to change the default message:
Showing 21 to 30 of 57 entries
To:
Showing 21 to 30 of 57 items (or whatever)
I found this in the official doc
So basically I have to change:
"info": "Showing _START_ to _END_ of _TOTAL_ entries",
"infoEmpty": "Showing 0 to 0 of 0 entries",
...
To:
"info": "Showing _START_ to _END_ of _TOTAL_ items",
"infoEmpty": "Showing 0 to 0 of 0 items",
...
But I don't know how to hook it up all together.
Is there any possibility to do that without using any additional plugins?

Answer 1

Here is an example - no additional plugins are needed:
$('#example').DataTable( {
"language": {
"info": "Showing _START_ to _END_ of _TOTAL_ items",
"infoEmpty": "Showing 0 to 0 of 0 items",
"infoFiltered": "(filtered from _MAX_ total items)"
}
} );
In the above example I also added a third change, in case you want to handle all examples of "entries" to "items".
Some background notes:
These phrases are all part of the language option that you referenced.
Generally, this option is used to support changing all phrases to a language other than English - either inline or via a URL.
But you can use the option to modify the default English phrases also.