DataTables

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/r/dt/dt-1.10.9/datatables.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/r/dt/dt-1.10.9/datatables.min.js"></script>
<p id="table-filter" style="display:none">
Search: 
<select>
<option value="">All</option>
<option>London</option>
<option>San Francisco</option>
<option>Engineer</option>
<option>Developer</option>
</select>
</p>

<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>Bradley Greer</td>
            <td>Software Engineer</td>
            <td>London</td>
            <td>41</td>
            <td>2012/10/13</td>
            <td>$132,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Dai Rios</td>
            <td>Personnel Lead</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>35</td>
            <td>2012/09/26</td>
            <td>$217,500</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
...

CSS

.table-filter-container {
    text-align: right;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function (){
    var table = $('#example').DataTable({
       dom: 'lr<"table-filter-container">tip',
       initComplete: function(settings){
          var api = new $.fn.dataTable.Api( settings );
          $('.table-filter-container', api.table().container()).append(
             $('#table-filter').detach().show()
          );
          
          $('#table-filter select').on('change', function(){
             table.search(this.value).draw();   
          });       
       }
    });
    
});