JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<p style="text-align: center">
  This Fiddle was forked by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/9606459/giacomo-penuti">Giacomo Penuti</a>, for <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/49846701/9217760">this Stack Overflow question</a>. <small><a href="https://jsfiddle.net/41vgefnf/1/">See the original Fiddle</a>.</small>
</p>

<hr />

<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tfoot>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </tfoot>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>61</td>
                <td>2011/04/25</td>
                <td>$320,800</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>63</td>
                <td>2011/07/25</td>
                <td>$170,750</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>66</td>
                <td>2009/01/12</td>
                <td>$86,000</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
        ...

CSS

/* Styles for the drop-down. Feel free to change the styles to suit your website. */

.cb-dropdown-wrap { 
  min-height: 23px;
  max-height: 23px;
  transition: max-height 0.20s ease;
  overflow-y: auto;
  border: 1px solid #888;
  position:absolute;
  z-index: 1;
  background-color: #fff;
  margin-top: 5px;
}

.cb-dropdown-wrap:hover {  
  height: auto;
  max-height: 80px; /* At most, around 3/4 visible items. */
}

.cb-dropdown,
.cb-dropdown li {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

.cb-dropdown li label {
  padding: 3px 0;
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  cursor: pointer;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;
}

.cb-dropdown li label > input {
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 16px;
}

.cb-dropdown li label > span {
  display: block;
  margin-left: 3px;
  margin-right: 20px; /* At least, width of the checkbox. */
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 0.8em;
  font-weight: normal;
  text-align: left;
}

.factive {
  background-color: #c9e2c6;
}

#example th {
    padding-bottom: 40px;
    background-position: 85% 8px;
    min-width: 50px; 
}

JavaScript

// This code has been beautified via http://jsbeautifier.org/ with 2 spaces indentation.

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
  function cbDropdown(column) {
    return $('<ul>', {
      'class': 'cb-dropdown'
    }).appendTo($('<div>', {
      'class': 'cb-dropdown-wrap'
    }).appendTo(column));
  }

  $('#example').DataTable({
    initComplete: function() {
      this.api().columns().every(function() {
        var column = this;
        var ddmenu = cbDropdown($(column.header()))
          .on('change', ':checkbox', function() {
            var vals = $(':checked', ddmenu).map(function(index, element) {
              return $.fn.dataTable.util.escapeRegex($(element).val());
            }).toArray().join('|');

            column
              .search(vals.length > 0 ? '^(' + vals + ')$' : '', true, false)
              .draw();
              //console.log(vals);
              if(vals === ""){
              $(this).parent().parent().parent().removeClass("factive");
              }else{             $(this).parent().parent().parent().addClass("factive");
              }
              //change callback
          });

        column.data().unique().sort().each(function(d, j) {
          var // wrapped
            $label = $('<label>'),
            $text = $('<span>', {
              text: d
            }),
            $cb = $('<input>', {
              type: 'checkbox',
              value: d
            });

          $text.appendTo($label);
          $cb.appendTo($label);

          ddmenu.append($('<li>').append($label));
        });
      });
      
  $(".cb-dropdown-wrap").each(function(){
  	console.log($(this).parent().width());
  	$(this).width($(this).parent().width());
  });
    }
  });
});