Set focus on filter input

justSteve

As discussed at: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/6401/change-the-word-search-to-filter -- perhaps needs to be updated. Out of the box my filter input's markup looks like

<div id="ordersTable_filter" class="dataTables_filter">
<label>
Search:
<input class="" type="search" placeholder="" aria-controls="ordersTable">
</label>
</div>

I've tried both:

$('#ordersTable_filter input:search').focus(); // tosses error

and:

$('#ordersTable_filter input:text').focus(); // doesn't work

btree

Hello,

only use input

  $('#example_filter input').focus();

Fiddle:
http://live.datatables.net/hoduyawo/1/edit

allan

The first one would need to be:

$('#ordersTable_filter input[type=search]').focus(); // tosses error

There is no :search pseudo class.

However, as @btree says, just simplify it and drop the pseudo class altogether - it isn't needed as there are no other input elements in that div.

Allan

justSteve

Perfect -- mny thx!