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+ + + +Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user, or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.This example shows how the API methods can be used to work with fuzzy searching. There are 4 buttons below which implement the following actions
+.search(value)
This button takes the value from the input element to the left of the buttons and passes it into the .search()
+ api method. Doing this should update the value in the tables input element, but not yet update the tables records. If instead an undefined value were to be
+ passed in this method would act as a getter and retrieve the most recent search value..search("")
This button again calls the .search()
api method, this time with an empty string to clear that value that it stores.
+ Doing this should update the value in the tables input element, but not yet update the tables records..search.fuzzy(value)
This button takes the value from the input element to the left of the buttons and passes it into the .search.fuzzy()
+ api method. Doing this should update the value in the tables input element, but not yet update the tables records. If instead an undefined value were to be
+ passed in this method would act as a getter and retrieve the most recent fuzzy search value..search.fuzzy("")
This button again calls the .search.fuzzy()
api method, this time with an empty string to clear that value that
+ it stores. Doing this should update the value in the tables input element, but not yet update the tables records..draw()
This button calls the .draw()
api method. Doing this will update the table to display the values that have been returned
+ based on the calls to the above api methods. If a value has been set for both exact and fuzzy searching then both must approve a row for it to be displayed.
+ Clearing one of these values and drawing again will cause the other to be the sole filter that is applied. If the tables UI is used at any point then the
+ exact search is discarded and fuzzy search takes commandName | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | +
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | +
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | +
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | +
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | +
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | +
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | +
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | +
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | +
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | +
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | +
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | +
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | +
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | +
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | +
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | +
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | +
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | +
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | +
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | +
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | +
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | +
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | +
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | +
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | +
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | +
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | +
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | +
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | +
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | +
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | +
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | +
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | +
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | +
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | +
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | +
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | +
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | +
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | +
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | +
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | +
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | +
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | +
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | +
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | +
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | +
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | +
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | +
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | +
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | +
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | +
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | +
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | +
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | +
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | +
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | +
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | +
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: true
+ });
+} );
+ Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user, or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | +
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | +
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | +
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | +
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | +
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | +
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | +
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | +
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | +
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | +
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | +
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | +
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | +
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | +
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | +
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | +
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | +
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | +
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | +
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | +
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | +
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | +
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | +
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | +
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | +
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | +
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | +
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | +
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | +
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | +
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | +
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | +
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | +
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | +
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | +
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | +
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | +
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | +
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | +
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | +
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | +
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | +
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | +
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | +
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | +
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | +
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | +
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | +
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | +
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | +
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | +
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | +
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | +
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | +
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | +
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | +
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | +
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: true
+ });
+} );
+ Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the Datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user. or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.This example demonstrates the use of the fuzzySearch.rankColumn
initialisation option. The default value for this option is undefined which will lead to the
+ similarity not being displayed in any column. In this example fuzzySearch.rankColumn
is set to 6
which is the column on the far right of
+ the table. When using fuzzy searching this column will be updated with the similarity value found within the rows data. When normal searching is being used this
+ column is not updated to include a value. The type that must be used for fuzzySearch.rankColumn
is number
. The full range of Datatables
+ column selectors cannot be used here as the value is used to index internal arrays rather than using the Datatables API
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | ++ |
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | ++ |
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | ++ |
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | ++ |
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | ++ |
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | ++ |
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | ++ |
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | ++ |
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | ++ |
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | ++ |
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | ++ |
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | ++ |
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | ++ |
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | ++ |
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | ++ |
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | ++ |
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | ++ |
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | ++ |
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | ++ |
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | ++ |
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | ++ |
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | ++ |
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | ++ |
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | ++ |
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | ++ |
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | ++ |
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | ++ |
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | ++ |
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | ++ |
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | ++ |
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | ++ |
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | ++ |
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | ++ |
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | ++ |
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | ++ |
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | ++ |
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | ++ |
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | ++ |
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | ++ |
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | ++ |
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | ++ |
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | ++ |
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | ++ |
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | ++ |
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | ++ |
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | ++ |
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | ++ |
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | ++ |
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | ++ |
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | ++ |
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | ++ |
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | ++ |
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | ++ |
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | ++ |
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | ++ |
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: {
+ rankColumn: 6
+ }
+ });
+} );
+ Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the Datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user. or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.This example demonstrates how fuzzy searching can make use of the search.return
initialisation option which is new in DataTables version 1.11. The default value for this option is false which lead to the search
+ results being updated on every keypress. In this example search.return
is set to true
, meaning that the search results displayed within the table will
+ only be updated when the enter key is pressed.
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | +
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | +
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | +
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | +
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | +
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | +
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | +
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | +
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | +
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | +
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | +
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | +
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | +
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | +
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | +
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | +
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | +
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | +
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | +
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | +
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | +
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | +
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | +
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | +
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | +
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | +
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | +
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | +
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | +
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | +
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | +
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | +
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | +
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | +
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | +
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | +
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | +
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | +
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | +
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | +
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | +
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | +
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | +
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | +
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | +
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | +
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | +
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | +
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | +
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | +
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | +
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | +
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | +
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | +
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | +
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | +
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | +
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: true,
+ search: {
+ return: true
+ }
+ });
+} );
+ Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the Datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user. or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.This example shows how fuzzySearch integrates with stateSave
. The search mode, the value within the search box and the search results are restored
+ as they were on reload. To display all of the stateSave
functionality, fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
and fuzzySearch.rankColumn
+ are set to true and 6 respectively.
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | ++ |
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | ++ |
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | ++ |
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | ++ |
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | ++ |
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | ++ |
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | ++ |
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | ++ |
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | ++ |
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | ++ |
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | ++ |
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | ++ |
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | ++ |
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | ++ |
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | ++ |
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | ++ |
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | ++ |
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | ++ |
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | ++ |
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | ++ |
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | ++ |
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | ++ |
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | ++ |
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | ++ |
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | ++ |
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | ++ |
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | ++ |
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | ++ |
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | ++ |
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | ++ |
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | ++ |
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | ++ |
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | ++ |
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | ++ |
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | ++ |
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | ++ |
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | ++ |
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | ++ |
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | ++ |
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | ++ |
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | ++ |
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | ++ |
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | ++ |
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | ++ |
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | ++ |
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | ++ |
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | ++ |
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | ++ |
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | ++ |
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | ++ |
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | ++ |
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | ++ |
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | ++ |
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | ++ |
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | ++ |
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: {
+ rankColumn: 6,
+ toggleSmart: true
+ },
+ stateSave: true
+ });
+} );
+ Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the Datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user. or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.This example demonstrates the use of the fuzzySearch.threshold
initialisation option. The default value for this option is 0.5. This value is used to
+ compare against the Damerau-Levenshtein similarity metric which is calculated by dividing the number of changes needed to make the words the same, by the length of
+ the longest word and subtracting that value from one. This means that rows where each word in the search value matches a word in the row by at least 0.5 will be displayed. In this example
+ fuzzySearch.threshold
is set to 0.1
. This will mean that significantly more rows are displayed than normal. The value set here has to be
+ a decimal number between 0 and 1 with no limit on decimal places. Any greater than 1 and no results will be displayed, 0 will always display all results.
Let's consider an example of how these values are calculated. To do this let's walk through the comparison between a cell containing "Jackson" and a search value + of "sockssssssssssssssss". Here the longer of the two values is the search value, which is 20 characters long. There are 3 matching letters mid string - "cks". + The "Ja" preceeding the "cks" requires a substitution of 2 to make the strings match. The "on" following the "cks" also requres a substitution of 2 to make the + strings match. The remaining 13 "s"s are deleted, this gives a total change score of 17. Dividing that by the longest length (20) gives a value of 0.85. Subtracting + that value from one gives a similarity score of 0.15. This would therefore pass in the below example where the threshold is 0.1. For obvious reasons, it is not + recommended that you set the threshold value that low.
+Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | ++ |
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | ++ |
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | ++ |
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | ++ |
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | ++ |
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | ++ |
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | ++ |
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | ++ |
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | ++ |
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | ++ |
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | ++ |
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | ++ |
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | ++ |
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | ++ |
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | ++ |
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | ++ |
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | ++ |
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | ++ |
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | ++ |
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | ++ |
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | ++ |
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | ++ |
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | ++ |
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | ++ |
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | ++ |
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | ++ |
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | ++ |
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | ++ |
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | ++ |
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | ++ |
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | ++ |
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | ++ |
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | ++ |
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | ++ |
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | ++ |
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | ++ |
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | ++ |
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | ++ |
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | ++ |
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | ++ |
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | ++ |
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | ++ |
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | ++ |
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | ++ |
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | ++ |
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | ++ |
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | ++ |
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | ++ |
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | ++ |
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | ++ |
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | ++ |
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | ++ |
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | ++ |
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | ++ |
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | ++ |
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: {
+ rankColumn: 6,
+ threshold: 0.1
+ }
+ });
+} );
+ Fuzzy searching is used in search engines and databases to perform searches that will match results that are not necessarily exactly the same as the search + term. This allows spelling mistakes and typos to be accounted for. It also allows small changes in dialect not to affect search results. A commonly used example is + for surname searching. "Smith" and "Smythe" are pronounced the same way, but using conventional searching typing "Smith" would not return "Smythe".
+This plug-in adds fuzzy search functionality to DataTables. It does this through a combination of exact matching and the Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. There are three initialisation options that are associated with this + plugin.
+fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
allows the searching to be changed from exact matching to fuzzy searching.fuzzySearch.rankColumn
allows the % match to be set in a column within the Datatable. Some examples of use cases could be to display the value
+ to the user. or to hide the column and order based on it - as a search engine would.fuzzySearch.threshold
allows the value of similarity that is required from the Damerau-Levenshtein function to display the row to be
+ changed.This example demonstrates the use of the fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
initialisation option. The default value for this option is undefined which leads
+ to fuzzy searching being used all the time if the fuzzySearch
option is declared in the initialisation options. In this example fuzzySearch.toggleSmart
+ is set to true
, meaning that the search mode can be toggled by the end user. This can be done by hovering over the search box. When doing so a tooltip
+ will appear with two buttons - one for exact searching and one for fuzzy searching. Alternatively the fuzzy searching logo can be pressed. This logo is blurred when
+ in fuzzy search mode, and clear when in exact search mode. fuzzySearch.rankColumn
is also set to 6
to display how the similarity is shown
+ when toggling between exact and fuzzy searching modes. When exact searching no value is shown here.
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiger Nixon | +System Architect | +Edinburgh | +61 | +2011/04/25 | +$320,800 | ++ |
Garrett Winters | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +63 | +2011/07/25 | +$170,750 | ++ |
Ashton Cox | +Junior Technical Author | +San Francisco | +66 | +2009/01/12 | +$86,000 | ++ |
Cedric Kelly | +Senior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2012/03/29 | +$433,060 | ++ |
Airi Satou | +Accountant | +Tokyo | +33 | +2008/11/28 | +$162,700 | ++ |
Brielle Williamson | +Integration Specialist | +New York | +61 | +2012/12/02 | +$372,000 | ++ |
Herrod Chandler | +Sales Assistant | +San Francisco | +59 | +2012/08/06 | +$137,500 | ++ |
Rhona Davidson | +Integration Specialist | +Tokyo | +55 | +2010/10/14 | +$327,900 | ++ |
Colleen Hurst | +Javascript Developer | +San Francisco | +39 | +2009/09/15 | +$205,500 | ++ |
Sonya Frost | +Software Engineer | +Edinburgh | +23 | +2008/12/13 | +$103,600 | ++ |
Jena Gaines | +Office Manager | +London | +30 | +2008/12/19 | +$90,560 | ++ |
Quinn Flynn | +Support Lead | +Edinburgh | +22 | +2013/03/03 | +$342,000 | ++ |
Charde Marshall | +Regional Director | +San Francisco | +36 | +2008/10/16 | +$470,600 | ++ |
Haley Kennedy | +Senior Marketing Designer | +London | +43 | +2012/12/18 | +$313,500 | ++ |
Tatyana Fitzpatrick | +Regional Director | +London | +19 | +2010/03/17 | +$385,750 | ++ |
Michael Silva | +Marketing Designer | +London | +66 | +2012/11/27 | +$198,500 | ++ |
Paul Byrd | +Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | +New York | +64 | +2010/06/09 | +$725,000 | ++ |
Gloria Little | +Systems Administrator | +New York | +59 | +2009/04/10 | +$237,500 | ++ |
Bradley Greer | +Software Engineer | +London | +41 | +2012/10/13 | +$132,000 | ++ |
Dai Rios | +Personnel Lead | +Edinburgh | +35 | +2012/09/26 | +$217,500 | ++ |
Jenette Caldwell | +Development Lead | +New York | +30 | +2011/09/03 | +$345,000 | ++ |
Yuri Berry | +Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) | +New York | +40 | +2009/06/25 | +$675,000 | ++ |
Caesar Vance | +Pre-Sales Support | +New York | +21 | +2011/12/12 | +$106,450 | ++ |
Doris Wilder | +Sales Assistant | +Sydney | +23 | +2010/09/20 | +$85,600 | ++ |
Angelica Ramos | +Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | +London | +47 | +2009/10/09 | +$1,200,000 | ++ |
Gavin Joyce | +Developer | +Edinburgh | +42 | +2010/12/22 | +$92,575 | ++ |
Jennifer Chang | +Regional Director | +Singapore | +28 | +2010/11/14 | +$357,650 | ++ |
Brenden Wagner | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +28 | +2011/06/07 | +$206,850 | ++ |
Fiona Green | +Chief Operating Officer (COO) | +San Francisco | +48 | +2010/03/11 | +$850,000 | ++ |
Shou Itou | +Regional Marketing | +Tokyo | +20 | +2011/08/14 | +$163,000 | ++ |
Michelle House | +Integration Specialist | +Sydney | +37 | +2011/06/02 | +$95,400 | ++ |
Suki Burks | +Developer | +London | +53 | +2009/10/22 | +$114,500 | ++ |
Prescott Bartlett | +Technical Author | +London | +27 | +2011/05/07 | +$145,000 | ++ |
Gavin Cortez | +Team Leader | +San Francisco | +22 | +2008/10/26 | +$235,500 | ++ |
Martena Mccray | +Post-Sales support | +Edinburgh | +46 | +2011/03/09 | +$324,050 | ++ |
Unity Butler | +Marketing Designer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/12/09 | +$85,675 | ++ |
Howard Hatfield | +Office Manager | +San Francisco | +51 | +2008/12/16 | +$164,500 | ++ |
Hope Fuentes | +Secretary | +San Francisco | +41 | +2010/02/12 | +$109,850 | ++ |
Vivian Harrell | +Financial Controller | +San Francisco | +62 | +2009/02/14 | +$452,500 | ++ |
Timothy Mooney | +Office Manager | +London | +37 | +2008/12/11 | +$136,200 | ++ |
Jackson Bradshaw | +Director | +New York | +65 | +2008/09/26 | +$645,750 | ++ |
Olivia Liang | +Support Engineer | +Singapore | +64 | +2011/02/03 | +$234,500 | ++ |
Bruno Nash | +Software Engineer | +London | +38 | +2011/05/03 | +$163,500 | ++ |
Sakura Yamamoto | +Support Engineer | +Tokyo | +37 | +2009/08/19 | +$139,575 | ++ |
Thor Walton | +Developer | +New York | +61 | +2013/08/11 | +$98,540 | ++ |
Finn Camacho | +Support Engineer | +San Francisco | +47 | +2009/07/07 | +$87,500 | ++ |
Serge Baldwin | +Data Coordinator | +Singapore | +64 | +2012/04/09 | +$138,575 | ++ |
Zenaida Frank | +Software Engineer | +New York | +63 | +2010/01/04 | +$125,250 | ++ |
Zorita Serrano | +Software Engineer | +San Francisco | +56 | +2012/06/01 | +$115,000 | ++ |
Jennifer Acosta | +Junior Javascript Developer | +Edinburgh | +43 | +2013/02/01 | +$75,650 | ++ |
Cara Stevens | +Sales Assistant | +New York | +46 | +2011/12/06 | +$145,600 | ++ |
Hermione Butler | +Regional Director | +London | +47 | +2011/03/21 | +$356,250 | ++ |
Lael Greer | +Systems Administrator | +London | +21 | +2009/02/27 | +$103,500 | ++ |
Jonas Alexander | +Developer | +San Francisco | +30 | +2010/07/14 | +$86,500 | ++ |
Shad Decker | +Regional Director | +Edinburgh | +51 | +2008/11/13 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Michael Bruce | +Javascript Developer | +Singapore | +29 | +2011/06/27 | +$183,000 | ++ |
Donna Snider | +Customer Support | +New York | +27 | +2011/01/25 | +$112,000 | ++ |
Name | +Position | +Office | +Age | +Start date | +Salary | +Similarity | +
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
+ var table = $('#example').DataTable({
+ fuzzySearch: {
+ rankColumn: 6,
+ toggleSmart: true
+ }
+ });
+} );
+