Question

I wanted to use Jquery default search box to filter limited column.
Its predefined state is all columns sortable. How can I use to limit the columns to filter.

Answer 1

When you create the datatable, you can define columns to be non-searchable like so.

$('#table').dataTable(
    "aoColumns": [ 
        {"bSearchable": true},
        {"bSearchable": false}, 
        {"bSearchable": false}
]);

So in this case, there would be three columns and only the first one would be searchable.