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p>This is the searchPanes extension for DataTables. It

This example shows DataTables and the SearchBuilder extension being used with Fomantic-UI (a maintained fork of Semantic-UI). The DataTables / Fomantic-UI integration provides seamless integration for DataTables to be used in a Fomantic-UI page.

This example shows SearchBuilder being used with jQuery UI being used as the CSS display framework.

This example demonstrates how to make the SearchBuilder styling turn to greyscale as an alternative to showing the colours around the select and input elements.

This example shows SearchBuilder being used with the Zurb Foundation CSS framework.

This example shows DataTables and the SearchBuilder extension being used with Bulma providing the styling. The DataTables / Bulma integration provides seamless integration for DataTables to be used in a Bulma page.

This example shows DataTables and the SearchBuilder extension being used with Bootstrap 5 providing the styling. The DataTables / Bootstrap integration provides seamless integration for DataTables to be used in a Bootstrap 5 page.

This example shows DataTables and the SearchBuilder extension being used with Bootstrap 4 providing the styling. The DataTables / Bootstrap integration provides seamless integration for DataTables to be used in a Bootstrap 4 page.

This example shows DataTables and the SearchBuilder extension being used with the Bootstrap 3 framework providing the styling. The DataTables / Bootstrap integration provides seamless integration for DataTables to be used in a Bootstrap page.

href="https://datatables.net/manual/server-side">DataTables' server-side processing mode. SearchBuilder adds a number of

Short answer is no, either a column is searchable or it isn't, so you can't have one without the other. But as you say, using a search function would allow you to add that level of customisation. Colin

way to limit the search to just the DOM

column is sorted, the search is reset. How i

request to pass the search value to the server.

to disable cascadepane in search panes so that it

column to use for search $.fn.dataTable.AlphabetSearch.column = 5; can enable

able to send the search word via link from

to apply the column search event handler, for example:

You can search for an empty string to clear the search, for exmple: $('#table').DataTable().columns(1).search("").draw(); You could create an event handler for the search input. Something like this: http://live.datatables.net/jorexujo/323/edit Kevin

This thread should help with controlling the column width with search inputs. You can use a classname to define which columns get the search inputs. See this example from this thread for ideas of how this works. Kevin