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column_search",function () { table .column( $(this).parent().index() ) .search( this.value ) .draw(); } ); } );

Thanks for the link. There is a Javascript error happening on the page which is stopping the search from happening. That appears to be caused by an empty row (<tr></tr>) in the thead element. Allan

built your own external search, how are you telling

offset), length (limit) and search term whether the request

I am disabling sorting on the columns, so that won't be a problem. I was kind of expecting similar search feature as when pressed ctrl+f for searches that match more than one row.

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My original answer is not correct... I just noticed that you are using server side processing. Your server side script will need to process the regex search and return the correct rows. Kevin

qualSearch.push("\\b" + parseInt(quals[i]) + "\\b"); } var search = qualSearch.join("|"); _DTOWLInfoGrid.columns(7).search(qualSearch.join("|"), true, false,

Allan@ I'm using for this functionality ($.fn.dataTable.ext.search.push) search by particular column only. Sure. But you are adding it every time the return key is pressed. That's going to be very bad for performance. Allan

DataTables won't automatically get information from the URL's query string. If you need that ability you need to do it yourself (window.location.query) and then set the search option with the value. Allan