Search

It still can cause unneeded traffic. My solution was to remove the default handler and add a keydown and watch for the enter key, plus I put a search image button next to the search box.

DataTables' built-in search facility already provides multi-column filtering. See the most basic example: https://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/zero_configuration.html

use the applied option on data rows $('#table').dataTable().rows( { search: 'applied' } ).data(); this will give you the rows left after the search is applied.

not be confused with search() which is used to

You can use regex search and enclose the search

and it returns a search result. Whether I use

As i wrote, that don't work. for that reason i put: // Here i move jQuery('#tabla tfoot tr').appendTo('#tabla thead'); // here change where to search jQuery('input', this.header()).on('change', function () { ... } And it works, but only with the not fixed columns as i already said.

entry of characters in search box. Don't know why.

title, to each column search box: $(this).html( '<input type="text"

the buttons and the search box are not on