10 Best Table Filtering Plugin In JavaScript (2023 Update)

When you're building a large HTML table in the document, it is important to provide a Filter functionality if you are to get a good user experience.

What Is Table Filter?

In general, a table filter generates in your existing HTML table a search field where the users can quickly find out the desired tabular data based on the keyword they typed.

It is critical to the user experience because it is difficult for visitors to find the data they need quickly and accurately in a huge table.

The Best Table Filter Plugin

In this post, you will find a list of 10 best jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript table filter plugins that enable efficient & client-side filtering & live search functionalities on HTML tables. I hope you like it.

Originally Published Sep 28 2020, updated Mar 06 2023

Table of contents:

• jQuery Table Filter Plugins
• Vanilla JS Table Filter Plugins

Best jQuery Table Filter Plugins

Customizable Table Filtering & Highlighting Plugin With jQuery - FilterTable

A highly customizable jQuery table filtering plugin which enables an input field to search through your tabular data while highlighting the filtered table cells.

[Demo] [Download]

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jQuery Plugin To Filter Html Table with Multiple Criteria - multifilter

A dead simple yet useful jQuery plugin that allows to sort your table columns using multiple filter inputs.

[Demo] [Download]

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Enable Sorting, Filtering And Pagination For Table - jQuery fancyTable

The fancyTable jQuery plugin adds blazing fast, client-side sorting, pagination, and live searching functionalities to your large data table.

[Demo] [Download]

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Paginate, Filter, And Sort Dynamic Data In A Table - Table Sortable

The Table Sortable jQuery plugin helps you render a customizable dynamic data table from JSON or JavaScript objects, with paginate, live filter, and data sort capabilities.

[Demo] [Download]

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jQuery Plugin For Sortable and Searchable Tables - Tablesort

Yet another jQuery table sort plugin that allows to make your html tables sortable and searchable.

[Demo] [Download]

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Best vanilla JS Table Filter Plugins

Create Pagination And Filter For HTML Table – Ligne PaginateJs

A vanilla JavaScript plugin to create pagination and filter controls for large HTML tables. Without any frameworks and dependencies.

[Demo] [Download]

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Minimal Table Filtering In JavaScript – TableFilter.js

A tiny (1kb minified) table filtering JavaScript library to filter/search through table columns via search fields.

[Demo] [Download]

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Generate A Filterable Data Table From JSON – ModernTable

A modern table builder in JavaScript library which helps you render JSON data in a filterable data table.

[Demo] [Download]

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Easy Table Pager & Filter In JavaScript – ECJSTable

An easy and fast JavaScript library for paginating and filtering tabular data in an HTML table.

[Demo] [Download]

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Dynamic Sortable Filterable Data Table In Pure JavaScript – simpleTable

A vanilla JavaScript library to dynamically renders a sortable, filterable, scrollable, editable data table from JavaScript/JSON data.

[Demo] [Download]

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More Resources:

Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create filterable HTML tables on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Table Filter and JavaScript Table Filter sections.

See Also:

• 10 Best Table Pagination Plugins
• 10 Best Data Table/Grid Systems In JavaScript
• 10 Best Responsive Table Plugins In JavaScript And CSS
• 10 Best JavaScript Plugins To Sort Table By Columns
• 10 Best Table Export Plugins In JavaScript
• 10 Best JavaScript Plugins To Filter Content Based On User Input