Searching HTML Table [closed]

Answer 1

A quick and dirty approach, using jQuery:

$(document).ready(
    function(){
        $('#searchbox').keyup(
            function(){
                var searchText = $(this).val();
                if (searchText.length > 0){
                    $('td:contains(' + searchText +')')
                        .css('background-color','#f00'); 
                    $('td:not(:contains('+searchText+'))')
                        .css('background-color','#fff');
                }
            });
    });

With the following (x)html:

    

        

            

                Search:
                
            
        
    
    

        

            
Something
            
More text
        
        

            
Lorem ipsum
            
blah?
        
    

JS Fiddle demo.

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Edited to use addClass()/removeClass(), in place of setting the css in the jQuery itself:

$(document).ready(
    function(){
        $('#searchbox').keyup(
            function(){
                var searchText = $(this).val();
                if (searchText.length > 0){
                    $('td:contains(' + searchText +')')
                        .addClass('searchResult'); 
                    $('td:not(:contains('+searchText+'))')
                        .removeClass('searchResult');
                }
                else if (searchText.length == 0) {
                    $('td.searchResult')
                        .removeClass('searchResult');
                }
            });
    });

Demo at JS Fiddle.

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To fade out the table cells that don't contain the search result you can use the following:

jQuery:

$(document).ready(
    function(){
        $('#searchbox').keyup(
            function(){
                var searchText = $(this).val();

                if (searchText.length > 0) {
                    $('tbody td:contains('+searchText+')')
                        .addClass('searchResult');
                    $('.searchResult')
                        .not(':contains('+searchText+')')
                        .removeClass('searchResult');

                    $('tbody td')
                        .not(':contains('+searchText+')')
                        .addClass('faded');
                    $('.faded:contains('+searchText+')')
                        .removeClass('faded');
                }
                else if (searchText.length == 0) {
                    $('.searchResult').removeClass('searchResult');
                    $('.faded').removeClass('faded'); 
                }
            });
    });

css:

td.faded {
    opacity: 0.2;
}

Demo at JS Fiddle.