Search

Sounds like you are expecting an OR search where Datataables performs an AND search over the columns. There are many threads discussing this like this one: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/comment/152601/#Comment_152601 See if that thread helps. Kevin

of column based OR searches using a search plugin http://live.datatables.net/mucevape/1/edit Hope this

our use case no search needs happen until user

Hi @"Benn Solomon D" , You can get the last JSON sent by the server with ajax.json(), which can then be passed into search(). Hope that helps, Cheers, Colin

searching as described in search() docs. I updated your

title = (lang === 'de' ? 'Suche ' : 'Search ') + $(this).text(); $(this).html( '<input type="text"

look at creating a search plugin for this. In

i.e. option to make search run after formatting, not

column_search",function () { table .column( $(this).parent().index() ) .search( this.value ) .draw(); } ); Give it

Yep, if you run it, it'll show you how to do the search. It's only doing this: table.column(1).search('director').column(2).search('london').draw(); so you won't miss much if it doesn't work for you...