How to remove/hide the search field using the sDom prop of datatables

trisha

I'm using the jquery-datatables for generating tables : http://datatables.net/examples/data_sources/server_side.html
I was wondering if there is any way i could remove/hide the 'Search' field from above the table. I'm not quite clear on how does the sDom property of datatables work, but i tried this:

    "sDom": '<"top">tip', //not quite sure how can i remove the search from the table.

Any ideas on how the sDom work? Thanks!