Question

I use jQuery Datatables Plugin.
When I type a in search box Datatables filters all data in table contains a letter
But I want to search (alphabetical ) like this
when I type ‘a’ just filters all data starts with ‘a’

Answer 1

give this a try then:

oTable.fnFilter( '^a.*', yourColumn, true );

'^a.*' the regex searching for, replace the a with your filter

yourColumn speaks for itself

true needed to treat the first string as a regex, check the api