I'm having some trouble with individual column filters and columns with a combination of plaintext and HTML, specifically a href links. Cells with links only are fine, ie "<a href="url">Clicky!</a>" in a cell will filter properly if you type "Clicky" into either the table filter or individual column filter. However, "Please <a href="url">Clicky!</a>" will not filter properly with "Clicky". The search filter will only search on "Please" and everything in and between the <a> tags would be omitted entirely. I've dug around with custom types, but the built-in types don't change anything. I tried a custom type with ofnSearch['sType name'], but logging sData showed that the HTML was being chopped out of the searchable text completely. I I'm mucking around with afnFiltering, but that gives me tons of data and I would need only the total data from each cell in the column with a particular sType. Referencing by column index wouldn't work as I have about a dozen different tables that can be shown, each with a different layout. It would be far simpler to find a column by sType, retrieve the raw data, and then execute the filter when necessary. Perhaps there's a better way or even an existing plugin or built-in function that I can use. Some of these tables can be pretty big (thousands of rows), so something relatively snappy would definitely be preferable.
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