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doesn't natively support moving columns and resizing them, by

by TD. There's 6 columns. That comes out to

In other words if I have columns [ ContactID, FirstName, LastName, etc.] how do I have the ContactID value be appended in a link to the FirstName column so Susan=222 (contactID) I hope that makes sense.

It is possible to exclude columns from the search by using "bSearchable": false. See the bSearchable example here: http://www.datatables.net/usage/columns

But there are 4 columns) Most likely missing a

any customization to the columns or user changes the

Create table with 3 columns Initialise DataTables - fine as

that one of the columns is not "missing"). Most

http://datatables.net/usage/columns#bSearchable . Use an 'aoColumnDefs' target to target all columns that you don't want to filter. Or you can detach the default search handler from the input box, and apply your own with fnFtiler. Allan

Looking at the output, some cells are missing from columns that should be hidden, but some cells are missing from columns that shouldn't be hidden as well. That probably accounts for the mis-counting.