Ignore HTML when filtering a jQuery data table 1.9.4

MayurP

Hi All,

I'm using jquery datatable 1.9.4.

I have a table in which a couple of the colums contain links (a href). When I do a search, it finds matches within the <a href... ="abc.html?name=test&etc"> tags.

Is there any way to disable searching within html tags?

Also, We have tested same on jquery datatable 1.10.1 and it's working fine.

Is there any patch available for fixing this issue in 1.9.4? because we can not migrate to datatable 1.10.1 as of now.

Thanks.

MayurP

I've also tried fix given in below link,

https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/commit/065c2cc66b872c6964b7d31f12941f23e7f1f171

But Still No luck !!

MayurP

Please give me any idea.

MayurP

Any idea?

daniel_r

This wont help you for the main filter of datatables, but if you want a column filter that will filter your html column, you can try my yadcf
http://yadcf-showcase.appspot.com/DOM_source.html

take a look at the Tags column and read the docs (js file) about the

column_data_type: "html",

html_data_type: "text",

MayurP

Hi Daniel,

In column filter it is ignoring HTML(tags) but main filter is creating problems as it is considering html tags.

Any patch for solving this issue?