Search

I got it working using only text in the cells of body rows then using an onclick event on the table cell to retain link functionality.

You can use fnFilter ( http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter ) to pass in a regular expression you want to match on, including 'starts with'. Allan

For those finding this thread and having missed the example with select dropdowns as I did, here it is: http://www.datatables.net/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html (I had no part in that, just repasting the link to "answer" this thread)

Dear all, I solved in this way, but i dont' know if the best way!! [code] $('table tr:contains("KEY_STRING")').each(function(){ oTable.fnUpdate('lalalal',(oTable.fnGetPosition(this)), 3) }) [/code] thanks, Antoino

Ah, sorry I missed that. That works perfectly. Thank you.

On further investigation with help from noel, it would appear that the issue is that IE (and Opera) put a newline character after a tag when I read the content from a cell to decode HTML entities. This breaks the search unfortunately. The fix is to find this line: [code] oSettings.asDataSearch[i] = nTmp.textContent ? nTmp.textContent : nTmp.innerText; [/code] And add this just after it: [code] oSettings.asDataSearch[i] = oSettings.asDataSearch[i].replace(/\n/g," ").replace(/\r/g,""); [/code] I'll release a bug fix version of DataTables with this included it it in the near future. The bug will only be triggered in rows which have HTML entities and BR tags in them. Regards, Allan

DataTables attaches a keyup listener to that text box - so anything that causes that to be removed would effect this. Visual Event ( http://sprymedia.co.uk/article/Visual+Event ) will be able to tell you f the event listener is still attached to the node or now. Allan

got it, thank.

Darn! I was tracing with firebug and i just saw that... i was jumping over here to say I figured it out and save you having to answer. :) Thanks again!!!

Never mind. Found the answer here: http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=501&page=1#Item_0