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found it. in case anyone else is wondering, following css setting will hide the search field on top: #dt_products_filter { visibility: hidden; }

Are you using the search() method? There is currently no option to limit what columns it will search on I'm afraid. Allan

Bootstrap's styling will remove the clear icon from the search input. This is part of Bootstrap. If you search the forum for this topic you'll find a few other discussions on the same topic. Allan

regex input in the search. The next major version

bug in the alphabet search extension unfortunately. It is

you can see the search box before the error?

of var filteredData = table.rows( { search: 'applied' } ).data(); and removed

If you want to use legacy API methods such as fnFilter then yes, you would use the $().dataTable() form. For the modern methods such as search() you use the $().DataTable() form. Allan

The HTML for the search field is <div id="DataTables_Table_0_filter" class="dataTables_filter"> <label>Search:<input type="search" class="" placeholder="" aria-controls="DataTables_Table_0"></label> </div> I solved this by adding my own styling .dataTables_filter { float: left; }

my other post... Alphabet search with Ajax populated DataTable.