jQuery QuickSearch

Question

1. The filtering action runs on keypressed is there a way to make it run by a button. (i.e. the table is not filter unless a button is pressed). This will help in many ways especially on huge tables or when working on multiple tables.

2. There are 2 ways on filtering (all columns or using tag) what if we were able to filter according to the column name.

   <table>
     <tr>
        <td name="col1">Column 1 Row 1</td> 
        <td name="col2">Column 2 Row 1</td> 
        <td name="col3">Column 3 Row 1</td> 
        <td name="col4">Column 4 Row 1</td> 
     </tr>
     <tr>
        <td name="col1">Column 1 Row 2</td> 
        <td name="col2">Column 2 Row 2</td> 
        <td name="col3">Column 3 Row 2</td> 
        <td name="col4">Column 4 Row 2</td> 
     </tr>
     <tr>
        <td name="col1">Column 1 Row 3</td> 
        <td name="col2">Column 2 Row 3</td> 
        <td name="col3">Column 3 Row 3</td> 
        <td name="col4">Column 4 Row 3</td> 
     </tr>
   </table>
   

3. Each time entering a new word in the input box reset the table then apply the filtering on all records. What if there is a way to give the option of filtering all the records or just the result of previously filtered. I tried this by making the following changes in your example:

       $('input#id_search').quicksearch('table#table.myQS tbody tr');
       $('input#id_search2').quicksearch('table#table.myQS tbody tr');
   

   Then entering a word in "id_search" then another word in "id_search2" which filtered the result of the first filtering action.

4. Is there a way to get the count of filtered records (rows) in the header or footer of each table?

5. How to make on after run an external function (i.e. function found in .js file).

6. Where can i get a documentation for Quicksearch plugin ? as there are methods isn't mentioned in the example (i.e. using a class instead of ID).