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I don't quite understand I'm afraid. The page you linked to is already using DataTables 1.9.4 - the current release. What aspect are you looking to optimise? Allan

Hello allan, I've tried to insert the code from the example and this is what I get: Before inserting the code: http://i.imgur.com/kRjJbEM.png After: http://i.imgur.com/c2HtqVx.png PS: I have modified Editor/examples/bootstrap.html to my needs, as you can see if I do not insert any new buttons or customizations (like column filtering,etc), it works properly, but if I try to insert something new it collapses.

This was a bug that was introduced in 1.9.4 by mistake. It is fixed in git or 1.9.3 if you want to run not he bleeding edge or downgrade. Sorry for the trouble :-( Allan

Possibly yes. Perhaps a better option would be '\b'+sSearch ? Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Allan (thinking perhaps there should be a 'wish list' of features that we can all vote on...)

But why do you need that. There's problem with "bStateSave". If you are one page 1000 and you reload page and after reloading DataTable doesn't have so many pages(for example not 1000 but 500) it is still set on the 1000 page, and you have manually back to first to display records.

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Allan, I ended up just positioning the datatable WAY out of the viewport. I'm going to revisit this as part of the infinite amount of technical debt that we accumulate through projects. :D Will post up a gist or jsfiddle with errors, sample markup and js to replicate the issue. In the meantime, here is the error I was receiving when the container that holds the table that is referenced to instantiate the datatable: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'oFeatures' of null It throws that when i call fnFilter on aforementioned datatable. Like I said, I'll come back to this to discuss a real solution for this (not just hiding it via absolute positioning). Thanks for your time Allan, you're posts and plugins have been most helpful here.

Sounds like you might find this plug-in quite useful: http://datatables.net/plug-ins/api#fnSetFilteringDelay . Also make sure you are using sEcho in your server-side response as that is there specifically to stop out of sequence errors. Allan

My question is, how should I change my links so that the drop down would just show Bob Lee? In the fnCreateSelect function (assuming you are using that) you would need to strip the HTML from the data that is used to build the select list. how do I disable the drop down menu for column five (in my case the column that has the edit and delete links)? Alter the caller of fnCreateSelect to not call it for the column(s) that you don't want it to operate on :-) Allan

Figured it out. [code] $("tfoot th#usedropdown").each( function ( i ) { this.innerHTML = fnCreateSelect( oTable.fnGetColumnData(i) ); $('select', this).change( function () { oTable.fnFilter( $(this).val(), i ); } ); } ); [/code] And the tag: [code] [/code] EDIT: Bleh. Not working as I thought it would. Data in dropdown menu is wrong. Like if I use this: [code] [/code] Dropdown menu 3 (under 4th column) shows data from 3rd column. This should be from fourth.