Positioning with sDom

spidee

Hi there,

Firstly thank you for a great plugin. Integration with Jquery UI is brilliant too. Hope you can help me out with a problem.
I have server side pagination (using SQL_CALC_ROWS) as we can bring back thousands of rows and it takes too long to render, however I would like the filter in a very specific location but cannot seem to do it using sDOM. Is there any way I can add the search filter to my div that holds all the pagination info. Alternatively is there anyway i can add custom html to the container divs that hold the filter info?

Thanks again....
Spiro

izzy6150

Hi spidee,

Can you show us what you are doing here. It might help to shed some light on what you are trying to achieve.

Have you tryed the following for sDom? :
[code]
"sDom": '<"top"ir>t<"bottom"lpf><"clear">'
[/code]

Regards,
Izzy

allan

Just to add what Izzy has said, if you want a filter outside the scope of the DataTables sDom control, you can use any old text input element with fnFilter() called as required in it's event handler.

Regards,
Allan

spidee

Hi there thanks for the reply.Think it will work with the fnFilter trick.

Cheers !