filteration with starting letter

I am using the below code to filter data of California

onclick=‘mygrid.filterBy(“1”,“CA”);’>CA

is there any other filter method avalaibe that will filter the elements let say starting with A,

as an example please see the link below

lillyphysicianpaymentregistr … y/Registry

and goto Entity Paid Names and see how the filter is working

so is there any function available in grid.

You may try to add #select_filter or #combo_filter into your header.
Please, look at the working examples:

dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dht … combo.html
dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dht … earch.html

None of these provide the exact feature,

Actually, i wanted to display all the A entries when A filter is selected from dropdown or whatever.

or should i use custom JQuery for this?