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If you search the forum you'll find a number of other threads on this topic. Currently exporting of complex headers is not something that DataTables provides. Allan

Hi sonali12, If you pass in page, instead of false, i.e. $scope.dtInstance.DataTable.page(page).draw('page') then that will keep the ordering and the search as it was. See draw() for more info. Cheers, Colin

you actually use a search plug-in for this. Using

Using this example http://live.datatables.net/banomuqi/1/edit the search values appear in console.log for each column and main table search but how can I check if all are empty?

serverSide: true, So the search and sort is to be handled by your server-side processing script. Does it accept the data that DataTables sends? Allan

over column().cache()? Because the search cache won't be populated

Here is the picture of my view. You can see the search box and export excel button in two different rows. i need them in single row

not Datatables. A google search yields this as one

customize the width of search dropdown list?

val = $.fn.dataTable.util.escapeRegex( $(this).val() ); column .search( val ? '^'+val+'$' : '', true, false