Search

Hello I shared another solution. I'm not sure old version can do it. latest version support regex in search function. var val = []; val.push("ASIA"); val.push("Africa"); val.push("EU"); val.push("USA"); var table = $("#example").Datatable(); var mergedVal = val.join('|'); table.column(1).search(mergedVal,true).draw();

There are plenty of posts about this if you search the forum. Basically you need to customise the server-side script, since any such example scripts in here are only intended as examples - not "one size fits all" production classes.

Added and i added : div.dataTables_paginate { margin-top: -30px; } for paginations but still can manage to change the "show 25 entries " to be on the same row as search ...

value during the column search. Because, it would be

after make a search on the web (googled)

Thank you, allan, searchPlaceholder was helpful for translating the "type here..." string in my search fields. I am still looking for a way to translate the "All" in length menu.

loading and cannot also search through the records because

Use column().search() to get the applied search term. Allan

I would suggest calling search() and avoiding the private API entirely. Set searchDelay to 0 to stop DataTables doing any throttling if you are using server-side processing. Allan

Hi, Just an Idea. Using the following method to disable searching on certain columns. It will not search in the 2nd and 3rd column. $('#example').dataTable( { "columnDefs": [ { "targets": [ 2 ], "searchable": false }, { "targets": [ 3 ], "searchable": false } ] } );