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Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

I can see what you are trying to do, but unfortunately, I’m not aware of a possibility to change this search behavior 🙁 As I’m not the developer of the external DataTables JS library that TablePress uses for this, and as I therefore don’t know all the details about it, I can only suggest that you check the documentation at http://www.datatables.net for more information or ask in the DataTables forums there.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

ah, indeed, nice idea.

I haven’t tested it, but this code should achieve this:

add_filter( 'tablepress_datatables_command', 'tablepress_filter_on_enter', 10, 5 );
function tablepress_filter_on_enter( $command, $html_id, $parameters, $table_id, $js_options ) {
	if ( ! in_array( $table_id, array( '1', '3' ) ) )
		return $command;

	$name = 'DT_' + str_replace( '-', '_', $html_id );
	$command = <<<JS
var {$name} = $('#{$html_id}').dataTable({$parameters});
$('#{$html_id}_filter input').unbind().bind('keyup', function(e) {
	{$name}.fnFilter( '^' + this.value, null, true );
});
JS;
	return $command;
}

Just paste that into a new small plugin or into your theme’s “functions.php” file. Also, the line

if ( ! in_array( $table_id, array( '1', '3' ) ) )

needs to be adjusted, so that the array contains all the table IDs for which you want this search behavior.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

ah, my bad. There’s a small typo in the code above…

Please change

$name = 'DT_' + str_replace( '-', '_', $html_id );

to

$name = 'DT_' . str_replace( '-', '_', $html_id );

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

🙂
Good to hear that this helps!

We might need one more modification though. It looks like the search field now gets the ^ in it as well. Please try this:
Replace

{$name}.fnFilter( '^' + this.value, null, true );

with

var search_term = this.value;
{$name}.fnFilter( '^' + search_term, null, true );
$(this).val( search_term );

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

great. Looks like that worked 🙂

Best wishes,
Tobias

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