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the elements in the default paging controls - adding that

What you need to do is unbind the keyup event that DataTables puts on the default global input element and then bind your own keyup event listener. That function you bind will call fnFilter with your modified search value. Allan

the grid with a default set of criteria. The

By default DataTables will strip HTML from the filter (so it doesn't sort on tag names for example). If you want to explicitly tell it to filter / sort on an attribute you can use type based plug-ins: http://datatables.net/development/filtering http://datatables.net/development/sorting Allan

I had inputs of type text in the tfoot, and I forgot to set their width, so by default, they were 150px wide... I set them to 90px and magically... It worked

This is only for the themeroller supported datatables. Your demos (if they are like my tables) should default to whatever the current theme's colors are.

have the column as default hidden and make it

I do in my default CSS. Also, you might

preventDefault to stop the default action (focusing the element)

to be [1,2,3,4,5,10,11,20] by default but the reordering to