Live-Search on a table
This fiddle demonstrates how one may execute a dynamic search on a table's unique identifier column.
This fiddle is a response to stackoverflow issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12433304/live-search-through-table-rows
by RoryMcCrossan
July 25, 2014
HTML
<table>
<tr><th>Unique ID</th><th>Random ID</th></tr>
<tr><td>214215</td><td>442</td></tr>
<tr><td>1252512</td><td>556</td></tr>
<tr><td>2114</td><td>4666</td></tr>
<tr><td>3245466</td><td>334</td></tr>
<tr><td>24111</td><td>54364</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<input type="text" id="search" placeholder=" live search"></input>
CSS
table, tr, td, th{
border: 1px solid blue;
padding: 2px;
}
table th{
background-color: #999999;
}
JavaScript
$("#search").on("keyup", function() {
var value = $(this).val();
$("table tr").each(function(index) {
if (index == 0)
return;
var $row = $(this);
var tdMatches = $('td', $row).filter(function() {
return $(this).text().indexOf(value) != -1;
}).length;
tdMatches == 0 ? $row.hide() : $row.show()
});
});