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Use the fnFilter method to filter the table. You'll obviously need to create the A-Z links, but when clicked on, just trigger fnFilter as needed. Allan

The filter input is inside the label which creates an implicit connection between the input and the label - there is no need for a for attribute (which creates an explicit connection). This is defined in the HTML specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-for . Allan

problem that when you filter the town_id field, that

looks like the column filter plug-in has a number

not working http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2h72g09&s=5 here u can see that recovery column is set visible and the filter is going right and defense are a hidden column and the filter is not going

[code] $.fn.dataTableExt.afnFiltering.push( function( settings, aData, iDataIndex ) { if ( settings.nTable.id === 'example' ) { // filter example } else { // ... } } ); [/code]

Solved it by doing initial sort expressively on the column that the filter didn't work on until it was filtered - changed line 120 in above example to: [code] oTable.fnSort( [ [6,'asc'] ] );[/code]

[quote]Put your custom filter in place using standard DOM / jQuery techniques and then use fnFilter ( http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter ) to apply the filter to DataTables.[/quote] http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/6180/howto-add-custom-search-field/p1

default setting of the filter, that means an empty

Just upgraded the script to DataTables 1.9.4, and I still see the same problem. Can someone confirm that this is how it should work? How can I fix this behaviour, if I filter on "P 1" it shouldn't return "P10".