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accomplish is mimicking iTunes' filtering functionality. After you filter your library in iTunes,

I'm sure it would be possible :-). All you need to do is put your text box on the page and then bind an event listener that will call fnFilter on key up events with the value form the filter. Allan

thing is... when I filter for a known value

Allan, I had tried using fnFilter with the false parameter, but did not know to clear the filter. Once I used your suggestion about clearing the filter it worked just like I wanted. Thanks much. Regards, Jim

defined for ALL column filters. If you pass the

layout of pagination, search, filter and info. Hope this

Set [code]"bSearchable": false[/code] in either the aoColumns or aoColumnDefs specification for each of the columns that you don't want to filter on. See http://datatables.net/usage/columns#bSearchable

function(node){ // clear alle search filters oTable.fnFilterClear(); // collect data from

@Johnny: It's here: http://datatables.net/blog/Drill-down_rows. Look at the fnFormatDetails function and the sOut variable. But I'm still struggling to use advanced features like editable, filter widget on the child tables.

http://datatables.net/plug-ins/api#fnPagingInfo - iFilteredTotal might do the job for you. You can put that into fnDrawCallback which is called after every filter. Allan