searchBuilder.columns

Since: SearchBuilder 1.0.0

Restrict which columns can be filtered on.
Please note - this property requires the SearchBuilder extension for DataTables.

Description

This is useful as it allows restrictions to be made on which data points can be filtered on. For tables with a large amount of columns, this prevents having a large set of options within the select element.

Type

column-selector

Description:: number[] of the columns that can be filtered. This accepts all of the options of column-selector such as class name selector, jQuery pseudo selects and column index selectors.

Default

Value: true

The default value for the searchBuilder.columns option is true meaning that as standard all of columns can be filtered on.

Example

Allow three columns to be filtered on:

$('#example').DataTable( {
	searchBuilder: {
		columns: [1,2,3]
	},    
	dom: 'Qlfrtip'
});