title: bootstrap datatable custom dropdown filters
body: <p>I'm using bootstrap datatables in codeigniter project in footer i included this datatables js and initialized like</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('.datatable').dataTable({
              "sDom": "&lt;'row-fluid'&lt;'span6'l&gt;&lt;'span6'f&gt;r&gt;t&lt;'row-fluid'&lt;'span12'i&gt;&lt;'span12 center'p&gt;&gt;",
              "sPaginationType": "bootstrap",
              "oLanguage": {
              "sLengthMenu": "_MENU_ records per page"
              }
          } );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now i want custom filters in required list page on required column
   i tried as</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="s" name="s"&gt;
  &lt;option value="1"&gt;Hyd&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="2"&gt;Warangal&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and js as</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
  $(document).ready(function(){
      $('#s').change( function() {
          //alert($(this).val());
  oTable.fnFilter( $(this).val(), 2 );
  } );
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to filter using drop downlist for city.</p>