Disable Search autocomplete

icefield

What's the recommended method to turn off autocomplete for Data Table search, not within an individual field, but for the search field that appears outside the table?

I found this, https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/152096/#Comment_152096, but that didn't work for me.

colin

That should work, as it's just an element attribute - see here. It might be worth checking StackOverflow to see if there are other suggested approaches.

Colin

icefield

Bit more investigation revealed the following worked at turning autocomplete off for just the global search field.

        initComplete: function() {
            $(this.api().table().container()).find('input').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
        },

The code in the lined article above added "autocomplete=off" to every input field in the table. That is not what I needed in my case. I only needed the global search field above the table.

colin

Perfect, thanks for reporting back,

Colin