Search

Just a heads up. Should these validatedCreate and validatedEdit maybe be documented here https://editor.datatables.net/manual/events and here https://editor.datatables.net/reference/event/ ? I only happened upon them with a google search and they are clearly useful!

which from a google search appears to be an

the API - you can search any DataTable on that

There are lots of threads asking about column search filters and toggling column visibility. See of one of these helps your solution: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/167556/#Comment_167556 https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/176163/#Comment_176163 https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/165817/#Comment_165817 Kevin

it makes sense as Search Builder is based on

able to refine the search using the text box.

it helps in the search. Controller: require "../lib/DataTables.php"; use

datatable data before the search was applied.

with them. You can search the forum fo rthem

this.api().columns([3,4]).every... This doesn't work? .eq([3,4]) I don't this the jQuery eq() takes parameters like this. The simplest way is to assign classes to the second header defining which type of search to apply. For example: http://live.datatables.net/sanuwidi/3/edit Kevin