Search

Can I make a separate search control like input textbox or dropdown combobox as search box using data tables? You most certainly can. Just use the fnFilter API method to filter the table based on whatever input you want. Allan

Can I make my own search box like for example I wanted to use a separate or Search... control? Hope you can help. -thanks Ü

John, I mean the global search box at the right top of the datatable.

project, which means the search term is put into

my problem is, i just dont know where to locate the code pointing to search input in datatable. Im newbie. Sorry for inquiries

native folder. Still no search form. - I applied the

reference: http://datatables.net/ref#search (note that "search" is put into the

create 2 textboxes () or other controls when data changed in search, trigger fnFilter for a given column. http://www.datatables.net/ref#fnfilter http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter.html

text input box , 0 //search the first column , true

For those who stumble upon this and wonder... I got it working. I added a .attr('tabindex', '0') to the table so that it would be focusable then added a focus to the search box on a keydown event.