jquery dataTables - how to add an edit and delete option

Here you have an example assuming the following:

• Ajax population
• Data row is an array containing 4 columns
• Your data row contains the id on first column
• You don't display id on table so you hide it

It shouldn't be hard to adapt it to your needs. Check columns usage

var datatablesOptions = {
    "serverSide": true,
    "ajaxSource": '[yourAjaxUrl]',
    "processing": true,
    "columns": [
        { bVisible = false }, // assume this is the id of the row, so don't show it
        null,
        null,
        null,
        /* EDIT */ {
            mRender: function (data, type, row) {
                return '<a class="table-edit" data-id="' + row[0] + '">EDIT</a>'
            }
        }
        /* DELETE */ {
            mRender: function (data, type, row) {
                return '<a class="table-delete" data-id="' + row[0] + '">DELETE</a>'
            }
        },              
     ]
};
$('#table').dataTable(datatablesOptions);

EDIT

In case you need to conditional render something different depending on destination you could do

mRender: function (data, type, row) {
    if (row.destination == "d1") {
        return '<a href="destination1?id=' + row.id + '">EDIT</a>'
    }else (row.destination == "d2"){
        return '<a href="destination2?id=' + row.id + '">EDIT</a>'
    } else {
        // some error telling that destination value is unexpected
    }
}

take look at my Snippet of Columns part

columns: [
    { 'data': 'LastName' },
    { 'data': 'FirstMidName' },
    { 'data': 'EnrollmentDate' },
    {// this is Actions Column 
        mRender: function (data, type, row) {
            var linkEdit = '@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new {id= -1 })';
            linkEdit = linkEdit.replace("-1", row.ID);

            var linkDetails = '@Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new {id= -1 })';
            linkDetails = linkDetails.replace("-1", row.ID);

            var linkDelete = '@Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new {id= -1 })';
            linkDelete = linkDelete.replace("-1", row.ID);

            return linkDetails + " | " + linkEdit + " | " + linkDelete;
        }
    }

and this is snippet from my Json

{ID: 1, LastName: "Alexander", FirstMidName: "Carson", EnrollmentDate: "/Date(1126386000000)/",…}

Note thate I'm using ASP.Net MVC so Html.ActionLink just returning a Link

and the results are