DEPRECATED see https://github.com/polinome/datatables-lightcolumnfilter

datatables-light-columnfilter

A dataTables light columnFilter for jquery datatables 1.10 (server side processing only)

Warning : this only works for server-side processing

To install

bower install datatables-light-columnfilter

To configure

The main config is an associative object, the key being the column's index.

Now All HTML5 input types and attributes are Valid

• text
• color
• date
• datetime
• datetime-local
• email
• month
• number
• range
• search
• tel
• time
• url
• week

The older type dateRange is @deprecated

We now support the tags select and input, in order to work it is necessary to declare the html type in a new key-value pair called html in configuration object:

html : "input" | "select" | "range"

The new range filter is more powerfull the older dateRange, this filter now support all HTML5 input types, so if you need to display a range of dates you only need to create an object { html : 'range', type :'date' } in your configuration object.

var config = {
  index: columnConfig
};

var columnConfig = {
  html: (input|range|select),

  /**
   * HTML5 type data
   * @use with "input" and "range" filter
   * @type {String}
   * @default text
   */
  type: (text|color|date|datetime|datetime-local|email|month|number|range|search|tel|time|url|week),
 
  /**
   * time in ms
   * @use with "input" filter
   * @type {int}
   * @default 200
   */
  time: 200,
  
  /**
   * if the search is send to server to search like regular expression instead a plain text
   * @use with "input" filter
   * @type {boolean}
   * @default false
   */
  regexp: true,

  /**
   * values is a Array
   * @use with "select" filter
   * @type {array}
   */
  values: [{
      value: 'A',  label: "Label A"
  }, {
      value: 'B',  label: "Label B"
  }, {
      value: 'C',  label: "Label C"
  }, {
      value: 'D',  label: "Label D"
  }, {
      value: 'E',  label: "Label E"
  }]

};

Example

var dt = $('#table').DataTable({
  'ajax': {
    'url': 'data.json',
    'type': 'POST'
  },
  'columns': [
    {
      'orderable': true,
      'searchable': true,
      'data': 'name',
      'name': 'name',
      'title': 'Name'
    },
    {
      'orderable': true,
      'searchable': true,
      'data': 'email',
      'name': 'email',
      'title': 'Email'
    },
    {
      'orderable': true,
      'searchable': true,
      'data': 'label',
      'name': 'labelSelected',
      'title': 'Label'
    }
});

new $.fn.dataTable.ColumnFilter(dt, {
  0: {
    html: 'input',
    type: 'text',
    regexp : true
  },
  1: {
    html: 'input',
    type: 'url',
    width: '80px' // you can specify a width for each field
  },
  2: {
    html: 'select',
    values: [{
        value: 'A',  label: 'Label A'
    }, {
        value: 'B',  label: 'Label B'
    }, {
        value: 'C',  label: 'Label C'
    }, {
        value: 'D',  label: 'Label D'
    }, {
        value: 'E',  label: 'Label E'
    }]
  }
});

Beta features

Now we are testing the best way to pass all attributes you want for each filter element. At moment you can declare an object attr in each filter and add to this object all attributes you need. This feature is currently only in Beta.

Example

var dt = $('#table').DataTable({
  'ajax': {
    'url': 'data.json',
    'type': 'POST'
  },
  'columns': [
    {
      'orderable': true,
      'searchable': true,
      'data': 'name',
      'name': 'name',
      'title': 'Name'
    },
    {
      'orderable': true,
      'searchable': true,
      'data': 'quantity',
      'name': 'quantity',
      'title': 'Quantity'
    },
    {
      'orderable': true,
      'searchable': true,
      'data': 'dateOfBirth',
      'name': 'dateOfBirth',
      'title': 'Date of birth'
    }
});

new $.fn.dataTable.ColumnFilter(dt, {
  1: {
    html: 'input',
    type: 'number',
    attr: {
      name: 'quantity',
      min: '1',
      max: '5'
    }
  }
});