JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.6/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.6/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="search-inp">

<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
					<thead>
						<tr>
							<th></th>
							<th>Name</th>
							<th>Position</th>
							<th>Office</th>
							<th>Age</th>
							<th>Salary</th>
						</tr>
					</thead>

				

					<tbody>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
							<td>System Architect</td>
							<td>Edinburgh</td>
							<td>61</td>
							<td>$320,800</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Garrett Winters</td>
							<td>Accountant</td>
							<td>Tokyo</td>
							<td>63</td>
							<td>$170,750</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Ashton Cox</td>
							<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
							<td>San Francisco</td>
							<td>66</td>
							<td>$86,000</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
							<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
							<td>Edinburgh</td>
							<td>22</td>
							<td>$433,060</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Airi Satou</td>
							<td>Accountant</td>
							<td>Tokyo</td>
							<td>33</td>
							<td>$162,700</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Brielle Williamson</td>
							<td>Integration Specialist</td>
							<td>New York</td>
							<td>61</td>
							<td>$372,000</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Herrod Chandler</td>
							<td>Sales Assistant</td>
							<td>San Francisco</td>
							<td>59</td>
							<td>$137,500</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Rhona Davidson</td>
							<td>Integration Specialist</td>
							<td>Tokyo</td>
							<td>55</td>
							<td>$327,900</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td></td>
							<td>Colleen Hurst</td>
							<td>Javascript Developer</td>
							<td>San...

CSS

.highlight {
    font-size: 100%;
    color: red;
}

JavaScript

var table= $('#example').DataTable({
    paging:false,     
    ordering:false
});

var hlBegin = '<strong class="highlight">',
    hlEnd = '</strong>';

function removeHighlight() {
    var row, str,
        rowCount = table.rows().nodes().length;

    for (row=0; row<rowCount; row++) {
        str = table.cell(row, 1).data();
        str = str.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig, '');
        table.cell(row, 1).data(str).draw();
    }        
}    

function highlight(term) {
    var row, str,
        rowCount = table.rows().nodes().length,
        regexp = new RegExp('('+term+')','ig');
     
    for (row=0;row<rowCount;row++) {
        str = table.cell(row, 1).data();
        str = str.replace(regexp, function($1, match) { 
           return hlBegin + match + hlEnd;
        })
        table.cell(row, 1).data(str).draw();
    }        
}    

$('#search-inp').keyup(function(){
    var term = $(this).val(),
        regex = '\\b' + term + '\\b';

    removeHighlight();
    table.columns(1).search(regex, true, false);
    highlight(term);
})