Special Character "&" in Filter

[elli-pirelli]

Hi,

I'm using the tablesorter to filter to sort jobs via a API.
One of the Jobs has F&B in the title and when I filter it via dropdown, the entry disappears from the table.

I'm using the widget filter.

$(function() {
	var $table = $('table.jobsort');
	$table.tablesorter({
		theme: 'blue',
		widthFixed: true,
		widgets: ['filter'],
		sortList: [[0,2],[0,1],[0,0]],
		widgetOptions: {
			filter_reset : '.reset',
			filter_ignoreCase  : true,
			filter_searchDelay : 300,
			filter_startsWith  : false,
			filter_matchType : { 'input': 'exact', 'select': 'exact' },
			filter_external : '.search',
			filter_defaultFilter: { 1 : '~{query}' },
			filter_columnFilters: true,
			filter_placeholder: { search : 'Search...' },
			filter_saveFilters : true,
		}
	})
});

$('button[data-column]').on('click', function() {
	var $this = $(this),
	totalColumns = $table[0].config.columns,
	col = $this.data('column'),
	filter = [];
	filter[ col === 'all' ? totalColumns : col ] = $this.text();
	$table.trigger('search', [ filter ]);
	return false;
});

			
$('table.jobsort').on('filterEnd filterReset', function() {
	var c = this.config,
	fr = c.filteredRows;
	if (fr === 0) {
	c.$table.append([
		'<tr class="noData remove-me" role="alert" aria-live="assertive">',
		'<td colspan="' + c.columns + '">Für diese Suchkriterien haben wir leider keine freien Stellen.</td>',
		'</tr>'
	].join(''));
	} else {
	c.$table.find('.noData').remove();
	}
});```