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Because I'm an idiot! :) We've all been there.... :-)

Thanks, Allan! That worked perfectly!

Anyone who managed to fix this? Thank you so much!

Thank you for your help. Much appreciated. Managed to resolve this.

I'm not very familiar with using the dom option but that is probably what is causing it. Maybe try adding f to it, dom: "rtifS"? Just a guess. If that doesn't work, I bet removing that whole option would restore your filtering input.

You can use the filter_container_id property of my yadcf plugin, take a look http://yadcf-showcase.appspot.com/DOM_source.html notice that I moved the third column filter to the < div id="external_filter_container_wrapper" > , see examples on the showcase and code snippets below them (read docs)

The filtering options in DataTables are easily its weakest point at the moment and I plan to give it an overhaul in future. Currently there isn't really a workaround other than to modify the core code, so that it calls your function only once and you can do the loop, rather than DataTables doing the loop. Allan

Looks like i was looking for oSearch.

DataTables' column filtering is an AND operation - there is no option for OR filtering in the built in filtering. For that you would need a custom filtering plug-in: http://datatables.net/examples/plug-ins/range_filtering.html Alternatively, if you are only using 4 columns and two aren't filterable, you could just use the global filter? Allan

This seems to have done the trick - is this acceptable "aoColumns": [ { "bSearchable": false }, null, { "bSearchable": false } ],