search need to target by particular class name

muako

.search how to target by specific class name? My td has multiple span tag but i would like to target one tag as myTarget, so Manager will be filtered.

$('#example').DataTable( {                
                var column = this;               
                   $('.dropdown_class') .on( 'change', function () {
                        var val = $.fn.dataTable.util.escapeRegex(
                            $(this).val()
                        ); 
                        column.search( val ? '^'+val+'$' : '', true, false ).draw();
                    } );
            } );      
    } );

When i am using above method, its conflict and its not match between td because td match newline or separate word.

Example:

<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Director <span class="myTarget">Manager</span><span class="noTarget">Officer</span></td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$5,300</td>
1.</tr>

kthorngren

Orthogonal data might work for your case. In columns.render parse the span element to extract the string you want for the filter operation. Set the Computed values section for an example.

Kevin

muako

@kthorngren, thanks answered.