Filter table rows with jquery

Question

I would like to know how to filter table rows based on a column value. Plugins excluded, I would like to figure it out how to make this thing to work.

Answer 1

The basic idea behind all table-filtering is to hide all rows and then show those where the content of a has the searchstring included.

With jQuery the magic is done like this:

$('tr').filter(":contains('" + searchstring + "')").show();

But there's no need to use jQuery for this - I've coded a plain JS-solution for it. You can find it here.