Is it possible to filter a table by clicking an image?

thart

I am working with a table that lists episodes for a podcast. Each episode has a focus. What I would like to do is have images (outside) the table that, once clicked, will filter the table by a criteria set by me. Is this even possible?

thart

bump. anyone?

fbas

Yes, the oTable.fnFilter() function is ideal for this

here's some discussion about it, but using links instead of images. The idea is the same. Click handler for your image (or a link) triggers fnFilter by your criteria.

http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/22501#Comment_22501.

You can read the API description of fnFilter here: http://www.datatables.net/api

thart

Thanks for the help fbas. That was easier than expected. I can get it working in my own code just fine. Now to see if I can get it working with Wordpress and WP-Table-Reloaded. The hard part seems to be finding where to assign the initialization to a variable so I can call it in a post/page.