Focus on input/filter

[Deleted User]

I need to put the focus on the filter input field after datatable is drawn. I'll try several notations, like [code]$("#mytablename_filter:input").focus();[/code]but nothing works. Can someone give me a hint, please?

[Deleted User]

*push*
no ideas?

allan

Close :-)

[code]
$("#mytableid_filter input").focus();
[/code]
Do that after DataTables has been initialised and it should work okay.

Allan

[Deleted User]

...yeah, sorry, I wrote '#mytablename' but I know, it must be the ID.
That was not the point:
[code]$("#mytableid_filter input").focus();[/code]
works well, as long as not another language is in use.
[code]
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#mytableid').dataTable( {
"oLanguage": {"sUrl": "de_DE.txt"},
"sAjaxSource": "myajax.php"
} );
$("#mytableid_filter input").focus();
});
[/code]
does not work (in my case).
de_DE.txt:
[code]
...
"sSearch": "Filter",
...
[/code]

allan

If you want to do it with another language loaded by XHR, you'd need to do it with fnInitComplete ( http://datatables.net/usage/callbacks#fnInitComplete ). The reason for this is that the DataTables initialisation call will complete before the Ajax data has loaded (it's asynchronous...) so DataTables won't have drawn the lanauge or the filter at that time. fnInitComplete is provided for exactly this reason.

Allan

[Deleted User]

Thank you,
[code]...
"fnInitComplete": function() {
$("#mytableid_filter input").focus();
}
...[/code]
works fine with with German language.