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Use a column filter - column().search(). Allan

If you are using Ajax loaded data, don't bother adding it to the attributes - that would just slow things down due to an extra DOM interaction. Instead use orthogonal data via the columns.render option. Allan

can use columns.defaultContent or columns.render to render the inputs.

Use columns.render for this. See this example. Kevin

columns.render is not the place for this. Use initComplete and get the column().data() for the column. Then check the array for the value(s) you want to hide the column. Use column().visible() to hide the column. Like this: https://jsfiddle.net/zf4La3kb/ Kevin

for null: null - If columns.render is used, the data

You will need to execute the column().search() once using a regex search. You will need to combine all the values into one string with each id separated by a |. See this example doing something similar: http://live.datatables.net/xehexoye/1/edit Kevin

Use Javascript string repeat(). Looks like str_repeat() is a PHP method which won't work. Change intval($review_rating+.5) to intval(row.review_rating+.5). See the parameter docs in the columns.render docs. row contains the full row data. Kevin

Use columns.render to generate orthogonal data for the sort operation. This thread has a similar question with a running example. Kevin

You need to have columns.render set the type to