Question

I want to Select multiple items in a column filter. The following example allows you to filter on columns using dropdowns:

http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html

However, I would like to be able to select multiple items in the column filter, possibly with a checkbox beside each item in the dropdown. e.g. in the example, I would Tick ‘A’ and ‘C’ for ‘CSS grade’ so that only these grades are displayed in the table.

How can I get multi select column filters either using the DataTables plugin or otherwise?

Answer 1

You could build your own filter div with selectlists,checkboxes and whatever and use fnFilter to request filtered data from the server. For example:

$("#mycheckbox").click(function () {
     var dt = $('#mytable').dataTable({ "bRetrieve": true });
     dt.fnFilter($("#mycheckbox").is(':checked'), 1);
});

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