Search

I sorted out this by adding new textbox on page and hiding the default search textbox and setting search function on new text box the function for search text box is: $('#txtSearch').keypress(function () { oTable.fnFilter($(this).val()); });

You might try individual column filtering http://jquery-datatables-column-filter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/default.html instead of the global search.

someone types in the search The search in DataTables

going to query the search service and convert the

Because the search field in DataTables doesn't listen for either of those events. it watches for keyup. Fire that and it will work. Allan

the HTML from the search and all of your

I think these are the relevant definitions from demo_table_jui.css: .dataTables_length { // Show (menu) entries width: 40%; float: left; } .dataTables_filter { // Search width: 50%; float: right; text-align: right; } Works for me.

I generate the column search boxes [code] <!-- Just

to the text of search box using Mouse, a

Great, thanks to Allan for the plugin and the fixes. Easy enough to add an option for minimum length of search string before doing the filter too.