Looking for a good library to deal with lists of items in backend

[eluser]luismartin[/eluser]
You're right about manipulating the data the user already has on the screen. I was assuming I was having to need the server for every request to filter, re-ordering, searching..., since I wanted to use the CI pagination library. However there's a possibility that some filter or even the search box works on a value whose field will not be necessarily listed. Should I retrieve these values and use hidden fields or attributes to attach them to their corresponding rows to make them possible to use them with jQuery UI anyway? And, I suppose I should discard the CI pagination and use a built-in jQuery UI pagination instead, right?