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of the table from filtering and pagination was a

Yes this is possible, using regular expressions: http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter http://datatables.net/examples/api/regex.html So to use regex, you'll need to build up your own regex and then call fnFilter with DataTables' smart filtering turned off (as described in the documentation). Allan

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Hello, Did you get this to work? And how did you did it? I am trying to use the standard individual column filtering for server sided data. Could you help me with it? Greetings, Blalien

If you are searching on a single column, presumably with fnFilter, just disable the smart filtering ( http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter ) and it will string match. You can also do your own regex if you want to ensure the exact match you want. Allan

There's an example of how to get the filtering columns in the headings here: http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=89&page=1 I've had good results with this too!

Odd that filtering would stop working. Are you getting any Javascript errors? Allan

box next to the filtering text-box to see it

There isn't one which does exactly this, but you can use one of the examples as a starting point: http://datatables.net/examples/plug-ins/range_filtering.html . It just needs to filtering plug-in code to be expanded to cope with your various inputs. Allan