Title: Search Panes
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: December 1, 2022
Last modified: May 14, 2025

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Show panes for filtering the columns.

# Search Panes

Search Panes offer visually attractive filtering options for site visitors.

## Feature description

Here’s an example:

  |  Last Name | First Name | Birthday | Company | Phone | ZIP code | Country | Balance | Points | Rating |  
   |  Banks | Travis | 05/04/1969 | Apple | 200-4324 | 64655 | Italy | $61.17 | 8 | 6.6 |  
 |  Cain | Lawrence | 05/16/1994 | IBM | 701-3108 | 98004 | United States | $54.81 | 5 | 2.5 |  
 |  Middleton | Dennis | 01/10/1992 | Google | 580-9501 | 80913 | Spain | $24.83 | 4 | 5.2 |  
 |  Valenzuela | Lunea | 01/09/1966 | Cisco | 970-8655 | 51606 | Germany | $74.07 | 7 | 3.7 |  
 |  Burgess | Quynn | 09/24/1988 | Mozilla | 430-8943 | 78965 | France | $16.13 | 8 | 2.9 |  
 |  Lott | Lillith | 12/10/1978 | Dell | 587-2289 | 88178 | Australia | $30.12 | 1 | 7.9 |  
 |  Freeman | Cheyenne | 01/28/1981 | LG | 396-5473 | 14711 | Germany | $49.82 | 1 | 6.0 |  
 |  Houston | Jorden | 05/03/1978 | Adobe | 970-1182 | 96036 | Canada | $47.31 | 2 | 1.5 |  
 |  Harris | Merritt | 12/29/1989 | Apple | 160-5977 | 25178 | United States | $77.33 | 6 | 0.1 |  
 |  Gregory | Brynn | 01/13/1994 | Adobe | 663-6039 | 91558 | Spain | $90.24 | 9 | 8.2 |  
 |  Curry | Mason | 03/15/1969 | Sony | 115-4778 | 87513 | Australia | $21.68 | 5 | 6.6 |  
 |  Holland | Alyssa | 06/25/1976 | Xerox | 704-4977 | 97921 | Canada | $50.31 | 7 | 9.5 |  
 |  Logan | Shay | 09/13/1968 | IBM | 687-6482 | 03023 | United States | $46.39 | 8 | 7.6 |  
 |  Moran | August | 07/04/1986 | Cisco | 651-1214 | 60737 | India | $22.64 | 1 | 7.5 |  
 |  Vasquez | Kelsey | 03/31/1968 | Samsung | 470-7358 | 79655 | Germany | $84.05 | 3 | 4.5 |  
 |  Stein | Lawrence | 10/15/1960 | Toshiba | 929-5407 | 36044 | Italy | $77.11 | 2 | 8.6 |  
 |  Battle | Wylie | 01/03/1988 | Facebook | 368-2276 | 37585 | Australia | $46.37 | 10 | 2.8 |  
 |  Booker | Logan | 12/16/1975 | Apple | 830-5701 | 22074 | United States | $40.71 | 1 | 9.0 |  
 |  Gilbert | Chaney | 06/06/1970 | Sony | 132-5560 | 89630 | Canada | $78.45 | 9 | 1.2 |  
 |  Buckley | Stone | 09/11/1980 | Cisco | 422-7998 | 74057 | United States | $30.01 | 2 | 7.9 |

[Use this feature with a TablePress Premium plan today](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md)

## Usage instructions

To use these features with your tables, activate the “Search Panes” feature module
on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure the
desired options in the “Search Panes” section on the table’s “Edit” screen.

![Screenshot of the "Search Panes" configuration section in the TablePress Premium
versions.](https://tablepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/datatables-searchpanes.png)

The “Search Panes” configuration section in the TablePress Premium versions.

## Configuration parameters

To configure this module’s features, you can also use these [configuration parameters](https://tablepress.org/faq/configuration-parameter-reference/)
in the “TablePress Table” [block](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-tablepress-table-block/),
the Elementor widget, or in the [Shortcode](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-shortcode-table/)
that you are using to embed the table:

  |  Module | Slug |  | Configuration parameter | Name | Description | Type | Default value |  
   |  Search Panes | datatables-searchpanes |  | datatables_searchpanes | Search Panes | Whether panes for filtering the columns should be shown. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` |  
 |  Search Panes | datatables-searchpanes |  | datatables_searchpanes_columns | Search Panes Columns | A comma-separated list of the columns for which a search pane should be shown | string | `""` (empty string) |

The “Search Panes” feature module is part of the [**TablePress Premium plans**](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md).

**On this page**

 1. [Feature description](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchpanes/#feature-description)
 2. [Usage instructions](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchpanes/#instructions)
 3. [Configuration parameters](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-searchpanes/#configuration)