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• bccsergio Posts: 2Questions: 1Answers: 0

  September 2018

  Update:

  tried calling from using:

  "fnInitComplete": function(oSettings, json) {
      table.fnFilterOnReturn();
  });
  

  without success.. got this error:
  table.fnFilterOnReturn is not a function

  just remembering that I do have //cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/1.10.19/api/fnFilterOnReturn.js loaded, witch works fine without Editor, and my datatable is now initializing with this:
  table = $datatable.DataTable({

  I thought that this call on fnInitComplete should work, but that wasn't the case.

  Fortunately, I tried the following code, witch worked fine:

  "fnInitComplete": function(oSettings, json) {
      var api = this.api();
      $('#datatable_filter input')
          .off('.DT')
          .on('keyup.DT', function (e) {
              if  (e.keyCode == 13) api.search(this.value).draw();
          });
      }
  });
  

  Now, using this code, my search input is searching only on Enter Key. Just don't know why the fnFilterOnReturn is not working as well.

  Thanks anyway. Will continue here to fully integrate Editor in my admin panel.

  Sérgio Ávila
• allan Posts: 63,214Questions: 1Answers: 10,415 Site admin

  October 2018 Answer ✓

  fnFilterOnReturn is a legacy API method so it needs to be initialised using the $().dataTable() (note the lowercase d) method.

  What you could do is:

  var table = $(...).DataTable( ... );
  
  $(...).dataTable().fnFilterOnReturn();
  

  Its not ideal and really that plug-in should get updated to use the more modern API. Thanks for pointing that out.

  I reckon the solution you've written above is probably better that using the workaround I've just written!

  Allan