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This
control has some JavaScript associated with it that automatically submits the form
when the JavaScript onChange event is fired.
A complete description of the grid.state type is available earlier in this chapter.
$lists is an array because, if we are implementing more than one filter, we can
easily add all of these filters to a single attribute within the view, ready for the layout
to use. Alternatively, we could use a different view attribute to deal with each filter.
Now that we have a form control we need to display it. We do this in the template,
as this example demonstrates:

lists['state']; ?>

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It is normal to use a table with one row and two cells to display filters and search
controls. The left-hand cell is used to display the search and the right-hand cell is
used to display the filter drop-down selection boxes.
As with most things in Joomla!, there are no strings attached as to how we
implement filtering and searching.


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