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it didn't help :( This filter and two other buttons

foo [/code] However, the filter box remains empty in datatable, and no filtering occurs either (as I

Custom filtering sounds like the way to do this: http://datatables.net/development/filtering#row_filters . Using a custom filter you can apply whatever logic you want to a row to tell DataTables to include it in the display or not. Allan

switch off the global filter's "smart" filtering if you wish and

type "tapestry" into the filter box, there will be

lfrtip' f is for "filter" (search); if you take

method which sets the filtering and then doesn't act upon that filter until a full draw

There is the column filtering plug-in: http://jquery-datatables-column-filter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/index.html . That does

paging, but inclusive of filtering. iDisplayTotalRecords should be the

Ok, I redid everything, got rid of the fnFilter calls because I'm just redirecting the user based on a dynamically constructed URL built from the filter criteria and it works great.