How to get the orderable and searchable values for each column when using callbacks and api?

kmd1970

https://datatables.net/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html

i would like to expand on the example above by only adding select boxes for columns marked searchable.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        initComplete: function () {
            this.api().columns().every( function () {
               var column = this;
              
              //this does not work and/or does not exist
               var searchable = column.searchable():

               if (searchable){
                ....do something......
               }
        }
    } );
} );

allan

does not exist

is correct. You won't find it in the documentation. It is a method I'm going to add in future, but at the moment you would need to use a class name or something that you can query external to DataTables.

Allan

kmd1970

Thanks again!