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Use a regex search with column().search(), for example: http://live.datatables.net/pexucaya/1/edit See the search() for more details about the different search modes and how to apply them. Also look at this example. Kevin

Can you post a link to your page or PM the developers a link so they can take a look? Maybe you are doing some columns.render function or something else that is causing a timing issue. Kevin

Use columns.render. The docs show an example. Kevin

Maybe you can use columns.render instead of the Javascript

problem is that the columns.render function always needs to

You would use Orthogonal data for this. Use columns.render to replace the desired letters for the filter operation. Here is a simple example: http://live.datatables.net/hejimuke/1/edit Kevin

data points to. Use columns.render to display the data.

Yeah, it's because you're updating the HTML directly, so DataTables doesn't know anything about it. It would be best to create the index column with columns.render, that way the data is 'officially' in DataTables' domain - something like this: http://live.datatables.net/xopohelu/1/edit Colin

Use columns.render to render the HTML string and use the row parameter to access the row data to incorporate into the string. Kevin

You could add buttons either in columns.render (there's an example on that page that adds a link into a cell) or createdRow, Colin