Search withOUT filtering?

tommck

I've noticed how insanely fast Searching is with Filtering.. what I really need is a "scroll to" search capability that is equally fast.

Unfortunately, searching filters, which my customer doesn't want.

Is there a way to take advantage of that speed without trimming down the dataset? The set can be as big as around 1500 rows.. and we're required to support IE8 (read: speed issue is here).

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Tom

allan

Currently no - there is no way in DataTables to do searching that doesn't filter. Having said that it might be possible to build a plug-in that searches through the visible text and scrolls to that (much like how the browser's own search function works). Indeed, this doesn't need to integrate with DataTables at all, but could be a separate module that would work on any text (it would only need to integrate directly with DataTables if you have paging enabled).

I'm not aware of such a plug-in currently available, but there might be something out there?

Allan

tommck

Is there not an internal data structure you use for searching that I might tap into to at least get me the fast searching part and I could figure out the rest?