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Thank you ThomD. I set it to a string. I guess it thought the name of the city was a unity of measurement like %$ or , . columns:[ {"data":"city_st_zip", "type":"string"} ]

and then hiding certain columns (based on its class),

syntax (html) for my columns, instead of javascript, just

See this example for how to control groups of columns with a single button. You can use columns.visible to set their default state. Allan

or rely on any columns with epoch timestamps..

search is across all columns, and the way DataTables

so I'm making the columns data type explicit. Nope,

one by one for columns .??

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