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personally I would continue using orderCellsTop if it works in my solution. @allan has this comment in this thread.

https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/237453#Comment_237453

Old post: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/123317/#Comment_123317

Sounds like you have stateSave enabled and want to restore the search inputs with column().search() values. There are lots of threads asking this. Maybe one of the solutions in this thread will hel…

https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/223786/#Comment_223786

See this thread with the same question. @allan will need to comment.

I have looked at the info at https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/200892/#Comment_200892 and tried them all, but the sort arrows still show up for me.

If you are using server seide processing possibly you have the same issue as this thread. Sounds like the fix will be in the next version of Editor.

https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/209587/#Comment_209587

Hi Allan,

See this thread for the two options for placing the sorting click events in certain header cells.

https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/167672/#Comment_167672

See this thread for two options.

Another option is to use column().search.fixed(). See this thread.

How can I "filter" table data?

See this thread for an explanation. Updated test case prefixing leading zeros to make all the strings the same length:

See this thread for two possible options.

Kevin your solution shared here not working as I need,

I suspect its related to the samefix that caused issues in this thread. I think fix will be different for this issue. @allan will need to take a look.

See this FAQ and this thread for an answer to your question.