jQuery.FilterTable Minimum Characters Sample

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This is a sample of the jQuery.FilterTable plugin illustrating the minChars option. This sample sets the option to 3, meaning the term must be at least 3 characters to trigger the filtering.

Special note for usability: Your visitors may not know that there is a minumum number of characters needed for the filtering, so you will likely want to also indicate so with the label or placeholder options.

For example:

• Search for “j” and nothing is filtered because the term is less than 3 characters.
• Search for “ja” and nothing is filtered because the term is less than 3 characters.
• Search for “jam” and the table is filtered normally.
• Search for “james” and the table is filtered normally.

Presidents of the United States of America

Data as of October, 2012.

Code

$('table').filterTable({
    minChars: 3,
    label: 'Filter (3+ characters):'
});