jQuery DataTables - Alphabetical Search
Example for article at http://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-alphabetical-search/
by gyrocode
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/r/dt/dt-1.10.9/datatables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/r/dt/dt-1.10.9/datatables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://gyrocode.github.io/jquery-datatables-alphabetSearch/1.1.2/js/dataTables.alphabetSearch.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://gyrocode.github.io/jquery-datatables-alphabetSearch/1.1.2/css/dataTables.alphabetSearch.css">
<h3><a href="http://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-alphabetical-search/">jQuery DataTables – Alphabetical Search</a></h3>
<a href="http://www.gyrocode.com/articles/jquery-datatables-alphabetical-search/">See full article on Gyrocode.com</a>
<hr><br>
<table id="example" class="display" 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>Bradley Greer</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>London</td>
<td>41</td>
<td>2012/10/13</td>
<td>$132,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dai Rios</td>
<td>Personnel Lead</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>35</td>
...
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function (){
var table = $('#example').DataTable({
dom: 'Alfrtip',
alphabetSearch: {
column: 0
}
});
});