search.smart
Enable / disable DataTables' smart filtering.
Description
DataTables' built-in filtering is "smart" in that it breaks the user's input into individual words and then matches those words in any position and in any order in the table (rather than simple doing a simple string compare).
Although this can significantly enhance usability of the filtering feature, it uses a complex regular expression to perform this task, and as such it can interfere with a custom regular expression input if you enable that option (search.regex). As such, this option is provided to disable this smart filtering ability.
Type
This option can be given in the following type(s):
Default
- Value:
true
Example
Disable smart filtering:
new DataTable('#myTable', {
search: {
smart: false
}
});Related
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