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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

bPaginate" : false     "oLanguage" : {         "sSearch" : "Filter: "     } }); [/code] But yes - this

"iTotalRecords":6, "iTotalDisplayRecords":5, Unless you have a filter applied, these two parameter must be the same: http://datatables.net/usage/server-side Allan

rows: http://datatables.net/docs/DataTables/1.9.beta.1/#$_details [code] table.$('tr', {"filter": "applied"} ); [/code] will get

To filter out a row you

code sample (filter.html) Symptom: filter shows column containing 'inactive'

That's easy enough done with the fnFilter API method. Just bind a keyup event to your input and have the table filter on the value using fnFilter . Allan