Search

It uses the global search and a button to transfer the searched rows from one table

Hi Chris, That's going to be a third-party. There's a few 'time machine' websites (like this and this) you can use that may have it. A quick search did find this version: https://web.archive.org/web/20130514050206/http://jquery-datatables-column-filter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/media/js/jquery.dataTables.columnFilter.js Hope that helps, Cheers, Colin

value will be the search criteria and it looks

are really doing the search using the database itself?

rows based on the search var data = $('#mytable').DataTable().rows({search: 'applied'}).data();

on what i could search online, but i believe

@allan I have checked that API and its really good. and it will be a great if that search panel boxs comes in Searchable DDL. Is this podible to get that box in DDL with searching

There are a number of other discussions on this topic if you search the forum - for example. Currently this is a limitation in the i18n support for the Excel file creation. Allan

rows. You could use search or searchCols to define

Move your search code into initComplete. The issue is that since you are using Ajax, the table hasn't finished initialising (i.e. using ajax makes the DataTable also async). Allan