filter all but header rows?

[Aesculapius]

Loving your quicksearch... I'm using it to filter all sorts of tables. But often, I create some kind of grouping, by having several rows underneath a header row. As in:

[table] [tr] [th colspan="2"]Section 1[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]actual row 1[/td][td]actual value 1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]actual row 2[/td][td]actual value 2[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Now when I search, I want to search both the td's as the th's. That's working fine since my selector sais: "table#result tbody tr".

But if something is matched in a detailed row, the "header" row isn't matched thus hidden.

I'm looking for a way to always include the header part of a search result, because else it becomes hard to distinguish different results with the same name.

Something like that possible at all? I thought about using the Show option to include a selector for the header part, but then...then Hide option would remove it again?

Edit: by the way: if I use "table#result tbody tr:has(td)" as selector, it works as expected, except that now all headers are shown, instead of only the ones who have search results...

[riklomas]

You could use put classes on the section header rows and then use the jQuery :not selector (http://api.jquery.com/not-selector/) to filter them

[Aesculapius]

But the thing is; I dó want to search within them, they should just always be visible when a match has been found in either the header row or one of the normal rows underneath. Or am I misinterpreting your reply?