Create Live Search in HTML table with jQuery

This tutorial shows you client-side searching in an HTML table with jQuery this is a very simple and easy code snippet you can use it in small apps reporting where you want to add fast searching you can use this code snippet its a 10 line of code to make a simple and fast searching so download it or check it in demo.

Code for this tutorial is very simple first of all you need to create a table.

<div class="form-group">

  <input type="text" class="form-control pull-right" style="width:20%" id="search" placeholder="Type to search table...">

</div>



<table class="table-bordered table pull-right" id="mytable" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">

    <thead>

        <tr role="row">

            <th>Name</th>

            <th>Position</th>

            <th>Office</th>

            <th>Age</th>

            <th>Start date</th>

            <th>Salary</th>

        </tr>

    </thead>

    <tbody>

        <tr>

            <td>Satou Nao</td>

            <td>Accountant</td>

            <td>Tokyo</td>

            <td>33</td>

            <td>2008/11/28</td>

            <td>$162,700</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Ramos</td>

            <td>Chief Executive Officer (CEO)</td>

            <td>London</td>

            <td>47</td>

            <td>2009/10/09</td>

            <td>$1,200,000</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Ashton Cox</td>

            <td>Junior Technical Author</td>

            <td>San Francisco</td>

            <td>66</td>

            <td>2009/01/12</td>

            <td>$86,000</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Brad Gree</td>

            <td>Software Engineer</td>

            <td>London</td>

            <td>41</td>

            <td>2012/10/13</td>

            <td>$132,000</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Wagner Kumar</td>

            <td>Software Engineer</td>

            <td>San Francisco</td>

            <td>28</td>

            <td>2011/06/07</td>

            <td>$206,850</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Williamson j.</td>

            <td>Integration Specialist</td>

            <td>New York</td>

            <td>61</td>

            <td>2012/12/02</td>

            <td>$372,000</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Salman Khan</td>

            <td>Software Engineer</td>

            <td>London</td>

            <td>38</td>

            <td>2011/05/03</td>

            <td>$163,500</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Vinton Cerf</td>

            <td>Pre-Sales Support</td>

            <td>New York</td>

            <td>21</td>

            <td>2011/12/12</td>

            <td>$106,450</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Naveen Mishra</td>

            <td>Sales Assistant</td>

            <td>New York</td>

            <td>46</td>

            <td>2011/12/06</td>

            <td>$145,600</td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td>Zohair Raza</td>

            <td>Engineer</td>

            <td>Dubai</td>

            <td>30</td>

            <td>2012/03/29</td>

            <td>$433,060</td>

        </tr>

    </tbody>

</table>

Now include jQuery:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

In the last put this jQuery code snippet:

<script>

 // Write on keyup event of keyword input element

 $(document).ready(function(){

 $("#search").keyup(function(){

  _this = this;

 // Show only matching TR, hide rest of them

 $.each($("#mytable tbody tr"), function() {

 if($(this).text().toLowerCase().indexOf($(_this).val().toLowerCase()) === -1)

  $(this).hide();

 else

  $(this).show();

 });

 });

});

</script>

Above code, snippet will work on search box kyup event and filter records available on your table.

Note: This feature can be used on client-side filtration.

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