Preamble

Regular expression filtering is very powerful and can allow you to customise the filtering done by DataTables to a very high degree. The example shown below has two custom input filters, one for "normal" filtering and the other for regular expression inputs. You can also specify which column you want the filter to apply to.

Live example

	Filter	Column (leave blank for all - starts at index 0)
Normal filtering:
Regex filtering:

Initialisation code

var goTable;

function fnFilterNormal ()
{
	var jqInputs = $('#filter_norm input');
	var iColumn = jqInputs[1].value == "" ? null : jqInputs[1].value;
	goTable.fnFilter( jqInputs[0].value, iColumn );
}

function fnFilterRegex ()
{
	var jqInputs = $('#filter_regex input');
	var iColumn = jqInputs[1].value == "" ? null : jqInputs[1].value;
	goTable.fnFilter( jqInputs[0].value, iColumn, false );
}

$(document).ready(function() {
	goTable = $('#example').dataTable();
	
	$('#filter_norm input').keyup( fnFilterNormal );
	$('#filter_regex input').keyup( fnFilterRegex );
} );

Other examples

Basic initialisation

• Zero configuration
• Feature enablement
• Sorting data
• Multi-column sorting
• Multiple tables
• Hidden columns
• DOM positioning
• State saving
• Alternative pagination styles
• Change language information (internationalisation)
• ThemeRoller themes (Smoothness)

Advanced initialisation

• Events (pre initialisation)
• Events (post initialisation)
• Column rendering
• Sorting without HTML tags
• Multiple table controls (sDom)
• Custom toolbar (element) around table
• Set sorting controls
• Column grouping through col/row spans
• Row grouping
• Row callback
• Footer callback
• Change language information from a file (internationalisation)

Data sources

• DOM
• Javascript array
• Ajax source
• Server side processing

Server-side processing

• Obtain server-side data
• Add extra HTTP variables
• Use HTTP POST
• Custom column ordering (in callback data)
• Pipelining data (reduce Ajax calls for paging)
• Show and hide details about a particular record
• User selectable rows (multiple rows)

API

• Dynamically add a new row
• Individual column filtering
• Highlight rows and columns
• Show and hide details about a particular record
• User selectable rows (multiple rows)
• User selectable rows (single row) and delete rows
• Editable rows (with jEditable)
• Submit form with elements in table
• Index column (static number column)
• Show and hide columns dynamically
• Regular expression filtering

Plug-ins

• Add custom API functions
• Sorting and type detection
• Custom pagination controls
• Range filtering / custom filtering
• Live DOM sorting

Please refer to the DataTables documentation for full information about its API properties and methods.