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Ok, figured out that it's actually the name of the column that isn't getting set correctly. When I changed table.column('product_type') to table.column(0), it works correctly. Anyone have any thoughts about what I'm doing wrong when trying to name columns?

In case it helps someone else, here's what worked for me: var table = $('#example').DataTable(); $('ul').on( 'click', 'a', function () { table .columns( 1 ) .search( $(this).text() ) .draw(); });

Are you using an earlier version than 1.10? You can also try bSort:false which is the older way of making none of the columns sortable.

I will request two columns from a table, and

i am using fixed column plugin. So automatically table scroll will come. My table have dynamic columns. so some times i dont need fixed column(its horizontal scrolling feature). just two column there but it has scroll. how to prevent this?

that the number of columns defined in the HTML

Are you able to link to a page that shows the problem please? That does look like it should work okay, but there is obviously something going wrong! Are you possibly changing the number of columns in the table? Allan

d.searchname = $('#search').val(); } }, "deferRender": true, "columns": [ { "data": "memberid"}, { "data": "FullName"},

var table = $('#users').dataTable( { "lengthMenu": [ [5,10, 25, 50, -1], [5,10, 25, 50, "All"] ], "ajax": "http://domain.com/Users.txt", "columns": [ { "data": "GivenName" }, { "data": "SurName" }, { "data": "Department" }, { "data": "TelephoneNumber", "fnCreatedCell": function (nTd, sData, oData, iRow, iCol) { $(nTd).html("<a href='tel:"+oData.TelephoneNumber+"'>"+oData.TelephoneNumber+"</a>"); } }, { "data": "EmailAddress" }, { "data": "Office" }, ] }).columnFilter();

my dataset has many columns. What I've been doing