[javascript] How to perform a real time search and filter on a HTML table

I've been Googling and searching Stack Overflow for a while, but I just can't get around this problem.

I have a standard HTML table, containing, say, fruit. Like so:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>Apple</td>
      <td>Green</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Grapes</td>
      <td>Green</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Orange</td>
      <td>Orange</td>
   </tr>
</table>

Above this I have a text box, which I would like to search the table as a user types. So, if they type Gre for example, the Orange row of the table would disapear, leaving the Apple and Grapes. If they carried on and typed Green Gr the Apple row should disapear, leaving just grapes. I hope this is clear.

And, should the user delete some or all of their query from the text box, I should like all of the rows that now match the query to reappear.

While I know how to remove a table row in jQuery, I have little idea about how to go about doing the search and removing rows selectively based on this. Is there a simple solution to this? Or a plugin?

If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be brilliant.

Thank you.

Here is the best solution for searching inside HTML table while covering all of the table, (all td, tr in the table), pure javascript and as short as possible:

<input id='myInput' onkeyup='searchTable()' type='text'>

<table id='myTable'>
   <tr>
      <td>Apple</td>
      <td>Green</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Grapes</td>
      <td>Green</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Orange</td>
      <td>Orange</td>
   </tr>
</table>

<script>
function searchTable() {
    var input, filter, found, table, tr, td, i, j;
    input = document.getElementById("myInput");
    filter = input.value.toUpperCase();
    table = document.getElementById("myTable");
    tr = table.getElementsByTagName("tr");
    for (i = 0; i < tr.length; i++) {
        td = tr[i].getElementsByTagName("td");
        for (j = 0; j < td.length; j++) {
            if (td[j].innerHTML.toUpperCase().indexOf(filter) > -1) {
                found = true;
            }
        }
        if (found) {
            tr[i].style.display = "";
            found = false;
        } else {
            tr[i].style.display = "none";
        }
    }
}
</script>

I found dfsq's answer its comments extremely useful. I made some minor modifications applicable to me (and I'm posting it here, in case it is of some use to others).

1. Using class as hooks, instead of table elements tr
2. Searching/comparing text within a child class while showing/hiding parent
3. Making it more efficient by storing the $rows text elements into an array only once (and avoiding $rows.length times computation)

var $rows = $('.wrapper');
var rowsTextArray = [];

var i = 0;
$.each($rows, function () {
    rowsTextArray[i] = ($(this).find('.number').text() + $(this).find('.fruit').text())
        .replace(/\s+/g, '')
        .toLowerCase();
    i++;
});

$('#search').keyup(function() {
  var val = $.trim($(this).val()).replace(/\s+/g, '').toLowerCase();
  $rows.show().filter(function(index) {
    return (rowsTextArray[index].indexOf(val) === -1);
  }).hide();
});

span {
  margin-right: 0.2em;
}

<input type="text" id="search" placeholder="type to search" />

<div class="wrapper"><span class="number">one</span><span class="fruit">apple</span></div>
<div class="wrapper"><span class="number">two</span><span class="fruit">banana</span></div>
<div class="wrapper"><span class="number">three</span><span class="fruit">cherry</span></div>
<div class="wrapper"><span class="number">four</span><span class="fruit">date</span></div>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

i have an jquery plugin for this. It uses jquery-ui also. You can see an example here http://jsfiddle.net/tugrulorhan/fd8KB/1/

$("#searchContainer").gridSearch({
            primaryAction: "search",
            scrollDuration: 0,
            searchBarAtBottom: false,
            customScrollHeight: -35,
            visible: {
                before: true,
                next: true,
                filter: true,
                unfilter: true
            },
            textVisible: {
                before: true,
                next: true,
                filter: true,
                unfilter: true
            },
            minCount: 2
        });

Datatable JS plugin is also one good alternate to accomedate search feature for html table

var table = $('#example').DataTable();

// #myInput is a <input type="text"> element
$('#myInput').on( 'keyup', function () {
    table.search( this.value ).draw();
} );

https://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/zero_configuration.html

Thank you @dfsq for the very helpful code!

I've made some adjustments and maybe some others like them too. I ensured that you can search for multiple words, without having a strict match.

Example rows:

• Apples and Pears
• Apples and Bananas
• Apples and Oranges
• ...

You could search for 'ap pe' and it would recognise the first row
You could search for 'banana apple' and it would recognise the second row

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/JeroenSormani/xhpkfwgd/1/

var $rows = $('#table tr');
$('#search').keyup(function() {
  var val = $.trim($(this).val()).replace(/ +/g, ' ').toLowerCase().split(' ');

  $rows.hide().filter(function() {
    var text = $(this).text().replace(/\s+/g, ' ').toLowerCase();
    var matchesSearch = true;
    $(val).each(function(index, value) {
      matchesSearch = (!matchesSearch) ? false : ~text.indexOf(value);
    });
    return matchesSearch;
  }).show();
});

you can use native javascript like this

<script>_x000D_
function myFunction() {_x000D_
  var input, filter, table, tr, td, i;_x000D_
  input = document.getElementById("myInput");_x000D_
  filter = input.value.toUpperCase();_x000D_
  table = document.getElementById("myTable");_x000D_
  tr = table.getElementsByTagName("tr");_x000D_
  for (i = 0; i < tr.length; i++) {_x000D_
    td = tr[i].getElementsByTagName("td")[0];_x000D_
    if (td) {_x000D_
      if (td.innerHTML.toUpperCase().indexOf(filter) > -1) {_x000D_
        tr[i].style.display = "";_x000D_
      } else {_x000D_
        tr[i].style.display = "none";_x000D_
      }_x000D_
    }       _x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
</script>

Pure Javascript Solution :

Works for ALL columns and Case Insensitive :

function search_table(){
  // Declare variables 
  var input, filter, table, tr, td, i;
  input = document.getElementById("search_field_input");
  filter = input.value.toUpperCase();
  table = document.getElementById("table_id");
  tr = table.getElementsByTagName("tr");

  // Loop through all table rows, and hide those who don't match the search query
  for (i = 0; i < tr.length; i++) {
    td = tr[i].getElementsByTagName("td") ; 
    for(j=0 ; j<td.length ; j++)
    {
      let tdata = td[j] ;
      if (tdata) {
        if (tdata.innerHTML.toUpperCase().indexOf(filter) > -1) {
          tr[i].style.display = "";
          break ; 
        } else {
          tr[i].style.display = "none";
        }
      } 
    }
  }
}

If you can separate html and data, you can use external libraries like datatables or the one i created. https://github.com/thehitechpanky/js-bootstrap-tables

This library uses keyup function to reload tabledata and hence it appears to work like search.

function _addTableDataRows(paramObjectTDR) {
    let { filterNode, limitNode, bodyNode, countNode, paramObject } = paramObjectTDR;
    let { dataRows, functionArray } = paramObject;
    _clearNode(bodyNode);
    if (typeof dataRows === `string`) {
        bodyNode.insertAdjacentHTML(`beforeend`, dataRows);
    } else {
        let filterTerm;
        if (filterNode) {
            filterTerm = filterNode.value.toLowerCase();
        }
        let serialNumber = 0;
        let limitNumber = 0;
        let rowNode;
        dataRows.forEach(currentRow => {
            if (!filterNode || _filterData(filterTerm, currentRow)) {
                serialNumber++;
                if (!limitNode || limitNode.value === `all` || limitNode.value >= serialNumber) {
                    limitNumber++;
                    rowNode = _getNode(`tr`);
                    bodyNode.appendChild(rowNode);
                    _addData(rowNode, serialNumber, currentRow, `td`);
                }
            }
        });
        _clearNode(countNode);
        countNode.insertAdjacentText(`beforeend`, `Showing 1 to ${limitNumber} of ${serialNumber} entries`);
    }
    if (functionArray) {
        functionArray.forEach(currentObject => {
            let { className, eventName, functionName } = currentObject;
            _attachFunctionToClassNodes(className, eventName, functionName);
        });
    }
}