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of relying on the built in search. Will let #allan comment on why your search setting doesn't work as expected. Maybe you can use a function instead?

Allan, sorry for that

How about $(oTable.fnGetNodes()).filter('#allan') : http://api.jquery.com/filter/

line will do it: $(oTable.fnGetNodes()).not('#allan');

One thing to remember is that DataTables removes nodes from the DOM when they are not on display (ie. if pagination is enabled). As such, if you add a row with an id of 'allan' and it isn't displayed