title: jQuery-how to match html tags for table column search filter using jquery dataTables
body: <p>The table td data is displayed by using some html properties like <code>&lt;i&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> etc. While doing column filter search with my own regular expression is not giving correct results.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#user_search").keyup(function() {
          try {
              regex ='username:'+$(this).val()+'*';
              table.column(3).search(regex, false, false).draw();
          } catch(e) {
  
          }
      });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This needs to match one line<code>"&lt;i&gt;" +username + ": &lt;/i&gt;" + value + "&lt;br /&gt;"</code> from multiple lines like this. </p>
  
  <p>Is it really needed to match those tags which are only used in script and plainly displayed in web page ?</p>