AutoFill works with Input elements and Select elements, as well as plain HTML cells. This example shows all inputs cells, combined with DataTables' DOM sorting plug-in. You can even combine input and plain HTML cells if you wanted (useful from something like jEditable).
$.fn.dataTableExt.afnSortData['dom-text'] = function ( oSettings, iColumn ) { var aData = []; $( 'td:eq('+iColumn+') input', oSettings.oApi._fnGetTrNodes(oSettings) ).each( function () { aData.push( this.value ); } ); return aData; } $(document).ready( function () { var oTable = $('#example').dataTable( { "aoColumnDefs": [ { "sSortDataType": "dom-text", "aTargets": [ "_all" ] }, { "sType": "numeric", "aTargets": [ -2 ] } ] } ); new AutoFill( oTable ); } );