Filter by column?

jamesc

Might a useful feature request for the future (since I don't think datatables does this out of the box at the moment?) be to allow multiple filtering by individual columns.

i.e. I could have a filter box at the top of each column and could type things in as many of them as I wanted to filter on that string inside that column only.

allan

The fnFilter API method allows this: http://datatables.net/ref#fnFilter. There is also a demo of how this can be done quite easily: http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter.html . There are also two extras which allow some degree of easy customisation:
https://github.com/cyberhobo/ColumnFilterWidgets
http://jquery-datatables-column-filter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/index.html

Allan

jamesc

Allan:
Thanks! Don't know how I missed that!