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Make use of fnReloadAjax (do a search on this site for that) then you can call as var contentTable = $("#contentTable").dataTable( ); $(document.body).on('click', '#reloadTableData', function(event){ contentTable.fnReloadAjax(); event.preventDefault(); });

BAH! i finally figured it out. Was returning the wrong iTotalRecords because of search term.

it possible to also search trough child rows? No.

ok i've changed the version. But now i get this: Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'search' . Its sorting and filtering but not with accents. :(

Search the forum, there are several posts about this.

This has come up a number of times already. Just typing your post title into the search box yields lots of relevant results: http://datatables.net/search?cx=004673356914326163298%3Abcgejkcchl4&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=How+to+create+new+row+in+middle+of+the+data+table&sa=Search&siteurl=datatables.net%2Fforums%2F&ref=&ss=7j49j2 Allan

Since you are using server-side processing, the filtering is done entirely by your server-side script ( ajaxUserSearch.action ). So you need to make sure that is capable of doing an UTF8 search (assuming you are using UTF8). Allan

search_input = datatable.closest('.dataTables_wrapper').find('div[id$=_filter] input'); search_input.attr('placeholder', 'Search'); search_input.addClass('form-control input-sm'); var length_sel

say 'I' in the search area of the 'Order

This is positioned in the sDom definition - see the docs or search the forum.