DataTables individual search columns

DataTables individual search columns example.

by Madhukar Hebbar

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/colreorder/1.4.1/js/dataTables.colReorder.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/colreorder/1.4.1/css/colReorder.dataTables.min.css">
<table id="example" class="display table table-striped table-bordered" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tfoot>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Start date</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
            <td>System Architect</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>2011/04/25</td>
            <td>$320,800</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Garrett Winters</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>63</td>
            <td>2011/07/25</td>
            <td>$170,750</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Ashton Cox</td>
            <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>66</td>
            <td>2009/01/12</td>
            <td>$86,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
            <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>22</td>
            <td>2012/03/29</td>
            <td>$433,060</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Airi Satou</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
   ...

CSS

#example tfoot {
    display: table-header-group;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {
    // Setup - add a text input to each footer cell
    $('#example tfoot th').each(function () {
        var title = $('#example thead th').eq($(this).index()).text();
        $(this).html('<input type="text" placeholder="Search ' + title + '" />');
    });

    // DataTable
    var table = $('#example').DataTable({stateSave:true,colReorder:{ realtime: false}});

    // Apply the search
    table.columns().eq(0).each(function (colIdx) {
        $('input', table.column(colIdx).footer()).on('keyup change', function () {
            table.column(colIdx)
                .search(this.value)
                .draw();
        });
    });
});