title: jQuery dataTables - stop wildcard search for select box in datatables
body: <p>I am implementing a filter and sort option into my php code by datatables plugin. For the input type fields, I am setting wildcard search but I dont want wild card search for select box. In my selectbox two values are there "Active" and "Inactive". So how to do that. Please help me. 
  My code is like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#example").dataTable().columnFilter({
      aoColumns: [
          null,
          null,
          null,
          null,
          null,
          null,
          null,
          {
              type: "select",
              values: ["Active","Inactive"]
          },
          null,
          null
      ]              
  });
  
  function fnCreateSelect( aData )
  {
      var r='&lt;select&gt;&lt;option value=""&gt;&lt;/option&gt;', i, iLen=aData.length;
      for ( i=0 ; i&lt;iLen ; i++ )
      {
          r += '&lt;option value="'+aData[i]+'"&gt;'+aData[i]+'&lt;/option&gt;';
      }
      return r+'&lt;/select&gt;';
  }
  
  
  function fnFilterColumn ( i )
  {
  
      $('#example').dataTable().fnFilter( 
          $("#col"+(i+1)+"_filter").val(),
          i,true
      );
  }
  </code></pre>