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I would suggest using fnFilter ( http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter ) to build your own filtering control rather than the default filtering control. Just put a text box on the page and attach a suita…

@Corran: In what way did is "fail"? No - no harm in adding it in, I just don't really see the need for is with regard to selectors / styling. However if it is required for accessibility the…

Hi Allan, thank you so much.

Do you mean that you are hiding the column with bVisible? If so, what DataTables is doing is removing the TD element from the DOM (and just holing it as a reference incase you want to reinsert it lat…

Hello.

Hello,

I was on Beta4 and now on full 1.8 version and for some reason my table will not display and I have trimmed out as much excess options from the table and it still won't show the data. As I've stated …

I have a page which has a dropdown box.

I load a table with some JSON returned from a .php file:

I have list of directories and files in one table.

a. IE7 warning - your second post is correct I'd say. You are trying to sort a large data set in a browser which is well known to have an extremely slow Javascript engine (and the sorting algorithm i…

It is possible to alert( // value of json.iTotalRecords //); outside of $('#example').dataTable ?

Hi Allan,

http://datatables.net/api#fnGetNodes - however it will give you only the nodes which are currently rendered - since DataTables doesn't know about any other nodes, which might be something you hit wit…

The answer is in the link I posted before :-). Where it says:

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... To be more clear, I noticed that to know iTotalRecords's value or iTotalDisplayRecords's value , i have to call: function _fnAjaxUpdateDraw ( oSettings, json ), and for iTotalRecords's value or i…

Sorry, forgot to add other info!

The label part can be done with http://datatables.net/usage/i18n#oLanguage.sSearch and I don't really understand the need for an id on the input element? Can't you just use '#example_filter input' as…

The default pagination controls are rendered as clickable divs or spans; but these don't seem to be accessible to keyboard only users - i.e. if I tab through the page I jump from the search box strai…