Search

Have you tried creating a search plugin to filter the column based on the checkboxes? https://datatables.net/manual/plug-ins/search#Plug-in-structure Can you post a link to your code for review and help? Kevin

The data sent to the server for a server-side processing request is documented here and includes details of the individual column search properties. Allan

to write your own search plug-in that gets the

table = $('#sites').DataTable(); table.columns( 1 ).search( "" ).draw(); table.button( 5 ).active(

You can use a regular expression search like this example. Turn on regex and turn of smart search. You can use the word boundary \b to search for whole words. Kevin

Possibly the drawCallback may work for you. In the callback you can write your function to recalculate the column total after every search. Kevin

values, like the regular search behaviour but adding the

quite enough info on search() for me to see

to build up the search pattern (probably in PHP),

val = $.fn.dataTable.util.escapeRegex( $(this).val() ); column .search( val ? '^'+val+'$' : '', true, false