How to specify an element inside a td to be filtered

jacobs

Hello,

I have a table with cells, each <td> contains a <span> and a hidden <select>, now all I want is to filter on just the text inside the <span> not the whole content of the <td> which also contains the hidden <select> element.

I've been trying for a couple of days now on this forum, examples, googling, but couldn't find an answer, so please help
Thanks in advance

daniel_r

You can use the HTML5 data-* attributes - cell data
Take a look at the html code on that page

jacobs

@ daniel_r Thanks for the reply, but that didn't answer my question.
I had seen the link you provided before, it's simply to provide DataTables additional info for filter/order operations, but it doesn't provide a way to tell DataTables to ignore this field or this element and exclude it from search.