trouble with search - it searches inside the html link

dee

hello, i really want to use this great extension, but i am somehow troubled by the way the search works (or not)...
i looked around in the forum for solutions, this was the closest one to my problem (http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/40669) but its not clear if it got fixed or where to add the suggested code.

my problem:
i have a table with the first column being html-links ( Customer A) and on the second column there are the names of the contact persons. now there is one person having the string "dre" in his name, when i do the search, it also shows me all other rows, because in every entry of col1, there is the string "...adress..." inside the href...

i tried
"aoColumns": [
{ "bSortable": true, "sType": "html" },
{ "bSortable": true, "sType": "html" },
{ "bSortable": true, "sType": "html" },
{ "bSortable": true, "sType": "html" },
{ "bSortable": true, "sType": "html" }
]
the same with "string" instead of "html" (i wasnt sure which one to use), but it didnt work at all...
any suggestions?

tangerine

You might try individual column filtering
http://jquery-datatables-column-filter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/default.html
instead of the global search.

allan

This, I'm sorry to say, is a bug in 1.9.4. It was introduced by mistake in that version. Its fixed in the dev version if you fancy giving it a go: https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/tree/1_10_wip/media/js

Allan

dee

great allan! thanks, it works like a charm now. i see you changed the input-field from type=text to type=search, i was wondering why my auto-search-button did not work anymore... anything else i need to be aware of?

allan

There are lots of changes in 1.10! Entirely new API added, fnRender and bScrollInfinite have been removed and more. I'll create full release notes when I put it into beta status.

Allan