The user should not forget to include dhtmlxgrid_filter.js file into the page.

The following method should be used to create a search box (set selection to the row with the value found) from any input:

        grid.makeSearch(id,column);

The parameters here are:

• id - {string|object} id of the input or input html object;
• column - {number} index of the column.

Search API represented by single command

       grid.findCell(value, index , first )

Where parameters are:

• value - search mask, grid will search for any occurrence of the mask in the row's data;
• index - index against which search will be run, optional, if not defined - search will run against all columns of grid ( search with index defined will run a lot faster );
• first - flag which shows is only first occurrence need to be found, or all of them.

Method returns an array of data , for example

        [
            ["row_1","2"] //first result
            ["row_4","3"] //second result
        ]

Each sub-array contains a row ID and cell index for the cell where value in question was located.