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That worked beautifully. I was able to combine the "applied" and "selected" selector to the results and it pulled just the selected records from the visible results (searched). $('#grid').DataTable().rows({ search: 'applied', selected: true }).data() Thanks again for your help. Tom

ping').dataTable( { "searching": false // Disable Search Field "iDisplayLength": 50 } ); }); </script>

the select list and search operation var select = $('select',

Here is a SO thread on how to get a parameter from a query string in Javascript. You would then use that value as the search value to perform an initial search on the table. Allan

This example can search in child row content. How to apply to my DataTables? Watchara.

Sounds like you need to "bin" the data - i.e. count how many of each occurrence there is. My alphabet search plug-in does that if you have to take a look at one possible way to implement such a feature. Allan

pieces to ensure that search and other things would

to work is the search functionality. When I even

An update on this for anyone who finds this discussion though the search options - Editor 1.5.4 introduced a placeholder option to the -field select type that makes this really easy on the client-side. Allan

Thanks @allan for save my day. One last thing is it possible to hide a textbox form action colom because it will have CURD links so no point of displacing coloum search in that coloum. Thanks.