type of columnDefs doesn't seem to work after v1.10.1

katamaran

Link to test case:
This is an example of a column with HTML fields in two different versions. Search for "query 1" in both.

v1.12.1
https://jsfiddle.net/xe3uvs14/20/

v.1.10.1
https://jsfiddle.net/2qm1ynzc/1/

Description of problem:

The problem is that in the old version the html values and attributes are searchable, while that is not the case for newer versions. I think this issue has started from v.1.10.2.

Has something changed? Am I doing something wrong?

allan

The columns.type option shouldn't be used. I made a mistake allowing it to be configured. If DataTables can't autodetect your column type correctly, then forcing it to a specific value (html in this case) will not work either.

Attributes and live DOM values shouldn't have been searchable in any version before. If that did work - it was by mistake!

We do have live DOM sorting that would work with your input element, but filtering doesn't do that I'm afraid.

Allan

katamaran

Yes the live DOM sorting works as the example describes. But in order to answer exactly for the given example the working code is:

$(document).ready(function() {
            var table = $('#example').DataTable( {

                columns: [
                  { orderDataType: 'dom-text', type: 'string' },
                  null,
                  null
              ],     
            } );
} );

Or here: https://jsfiddle.net/xe3uvs14/22/

Thank you for the quick and easy to understand response.