title: Searching from DataTable
body: <p><a href="https://datatables.net/reference/api/search()#Example" rel="nofollow">https://datatables.net/reference/api/search()#Example</a></p>
  
  <p>Im using the link above as an example for my searching, but my setup is quite different.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;
      &lt;div class="plCell_desktop"&gt;
          &lt;input type="radio" class="" data-lnk_id="414107671" data-group="RUTH"&gt;
          &lt;label for="414107671"&gt;RUTH&lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here is a extract from my table.</p>
  
  <p>The only visable bit of data is "Ruth".<br>
  but when I search for say '76' it will still bring "Ruth" back as a result.<br>
  The reason is most likely the fact that I have a lot more info in the table cell than "Ruth".</p>
  
  <p>Okay, so my question is. Can you force DataTables to search from the beginning of a word. e.g. ( enter "uth" will not bring back "Ruth", but "Ru" will, hope it makes sense ).  </p>
  
  <p>Can you do a kind of "innerHTML.val()" search with DataTables?</p>