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5 type select boxes filtering on one column? I've

Sure - use the fnFilter API method. Built your select menu as required and add an event handler for the 'change' event on it - then call fnFilter to apply the required filter to the table. Allan

If you are using server-side processing, as your code suggests, the the filtering is entirely done by your server-side script ("scripts/server_processing_moviles.php"). You might need to use ILIKE in your SQL to do a case insensitive filter. Allan

ensure that the main filter works with your date

row, every time a filter is required for the

applying any style to _filter like e.g background red,

row from the global filter - you could define your own filtering plug-in and have it

From the documentation for the column filter (which is a third party plug-in for DataTables - http://jquery-datatables-column-filter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/index.html ) your initialisation looks correct to me. What aspect of it is not working? Are you getting a Javascript error on the console? Allan

that you want the filter to operator on or

Can I make a separate search control like input textbox or dropdown combobox as search box using data tables? You most certainly can. Just use the fnFilter API method to filter the table based on whatever input you want. Allan