Programmatic manipulation of the search box?

iain_mc

Hullo,

So I'd like to click on a field in the dataTable and have the table filter by that keyword.

Easy to do with a call to fnFilter, but then I have to have another button the user has to click to clear the filter, plus there is no visible indication the table is in a filtered state.

What I'd like to do is take the content of the field, put it into the dataTables search box so that (a) there's a visible cue to the filter, and (b) the user could delete it there to restore the table to its unfiltered state.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Iain

allan

Hi Iain,

DataTables should update the global search input when you do a global search via the fnFilter method (although there is an option to disable that action). I've put an example together here: http://live.datatables.net/oluver/edit#javascript,html

Allan

iain_mc

Awesome as always, thanks Allan!

I was using the specific column filter option in fnFilter, hadn't thought of trying the global.

Cheers, Iain

iain_mc

Out of interest, is there an easy way to do the same thing and restrict it to a column filter?

allan

No, because there are no column filter controls built into DataTables. It doesn't know anything about how you've got your data from wherever to filter on a column (select input, text input, clicking a button, etc), so you need to update whatever control it is that you are using with your own script.

Allan