Dylan Kuhn

I recalled an even simpler way to accomplish this with filters, and submitted that instead.

I guess I have to reopen this to add commits.

I would expect a refresh to restore the table to the initial state when loaded, which is what it appears to do if I try on [the online examples](http://datatables.net/extras/thirdparty/ColumnFilterWidgets/DataTables/extras/ColumnFilterWidgets/). Maybe...

Gotcha - I wasn't getting that bStateSave is a DataTables option. I'd have to learn more about how it works to know whether support for it is feasible. I'm not...

I took a look at the ColumnFilterWidget examples with version 1.10.12 of DataTables and didn't see this. If you can reproduce it somewhere I can see I'll take a look.

Thanks guys, I'm happy to look at a pull request. It looks like removing the draw breaks updating widgets to contain only valid values for the current filters, but there...

I think the whole table is loaded regardless before filtering. You could test this independently of ColumnFilterWidgets with an initial search: ``` javascript $(document).ready( function() { $('#example').dataTable( { "oSearch": {"sSearch":...

Thanks for the offer @mbdesign. I'm not available for hire right now, but if you email me I can get back to you. Does anyone who wants this feature have...

@venzy thanks for mentioning fnGetColumnData updates, I started issue #15 for that @aphofstede it does sound like the implementation might be significantly different enough to warrant a separate plug-in -...

I just noticed this as well. ColumnFilterWidgets doesn't handle HTML markup in cells. I'm thinking an option to do a sloppier match that would just look for a term anywhere...