Programmatic manipulation of the search box?

Hullo,

So I'd like to click on a field in the dataTable and have the table filter by that keyword.

Easy to do with a call to fnFilter, but then I have to have another button the user has to click to clear the filter, plus there is no visible indication the table is in a filtered state.

What I'd like to do is take the content of the field, put it into the dataTables search box so that (a) there's a visible cue to the filter, and (b) the user could delete it there to restore the table to its unfiltered state.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Iain