Search

not passed through the search formatter! Hence why it

Solution: Dont disable search box. Just hide it using this css: .dataTables_filter { visibility: hidden;}. Now the search box is not visible and other text boxes are not being turned into search box.

Yes, but you need to disable both ordering and search for the generated column (columns.orderable and columns.searchable) since of course the server-side processing can't order / search client-side generated content. Allan

the raw array into search() |DT, it wasn't working

help. It seems the search returns valid JSON response,

Hi, You need to write a search plug-in if you want to search on class names as DataTables' own built in search will strip HTML tags. Allan

intended. The DataTables input search box is <input type="search"/>

As far as I am aware, nobody has yet ported the smart search code over to the SSP class. If you do so @ScreamerHS, I'm sure others would be grateful if you post your code. Allan

maybe you could do it like this? I guess this would clear everything first, and only then redraw. var table = $('#example').DataTable(); table .search( '' ) .columns().search( '' ) .draw();

If you are trying to search for content within child rows with the search bar, then you should check out this StackOverflow question. Hopefully that will help you, it helped me for sure.