jQuery Dropdown Table Filter

March 07, 2011

This project has been abandoned. The code is still available on Github, but it is no longer actively maintained.

Want interactive table filtering without requiring ajax page reloads? I needed this last week and couldn't find a simple, easy to use jQuery table filter that would give me select boxes in the table header. This seems like a no-brainer, and I'm sure a similar plugin exists somewhere in the jQuery universe, but I couldn't find it, so I wrote one.

This is especially sweet for Drupal, since it (at least in theory) allows us to serve a single cached version of the page, and allow users to manipulate it without the extra load of server side filtering. I wrote this plugin with simplicity, flexibility, and performance in mind. Hit GitHub for the full code and instructions.

The Code

$('#table_format').ddTableFilter()

Get It

The code and instructions are hosted on GitHub.