Hi all,

I'm trying to access the Search input on a datatable using javascript and manually set it depending on a users choice. I don't have any of my own inputs on the page so I tried to access it using (where it seems 'search' is set as a class name in the code)

document.getElementsByClassName("search")[0].value = 'my text here';

and also document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value = 'my text here';

but neither seem to work. Ideally I want to set the text in the input so the user can see instead of doing it behind the scenes and allow the datatable api to handle the filtering based on what is input in the existing search input.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers Shaun