Title: Column Filtering (with dropdowns)
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Column Filtering (with dropdowns)

 *  Resolved [donhhpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donhhpress/)
 * (@donhhpress)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-with-dropdowns/)
 * Great plugin.
 * Trying to manually trigger the dropdown filter.
    Actually, I am just having trouble
   determining the proper way to select the element in jQuery.
 * How do I specify the selection in jQuery for the following select element so 
   I can trigger it?
 * // Structure for tablepress filter columns
    <tfoot> <tr> <th> <select> <option
   value=””></option> <option value=””></option> <option value=””></option> <option
   value=””></option> </select> </th>
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 *  Thread Starter [donhhpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donhhpress/)
 * (@donhhpress)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-with-dropdowns/#post-6649357)
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-with-dropdowns/#post-6649446)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * I’m not sure and can’t test right now, but I think that you’ll simply have to
   set the value of the select dropdown, e.g. with jQuery. Something like
 *     ```
       $( 'select' ).val( '...' );
       ```
   
 * (with a proper selector and the desired value) should work.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [donhhpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donhhpress/)
 * (@donhhpress)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-with-dropdowns/#post-6649466)
 * Thanks. Did find a solution. However, does the Column Filtering (with dropdowns)
   have an exclude option to exclude a specific column?
 * I know the columnfilterwidgets one has that.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-filtering-with-dropdowns/#post-6649467)
 * Hi,
 * good to hear that you found a solution!
 * Unfortunately, the Column Filter script does not have such an option, as far 
   as I know (I’m not totally sure, as I did not develop that JS code but only package
   it as a TablePress Extension). Most likely, you’ll therefore have to find a custom
   solution for this.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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