JQuery has a plugin called pfSelect which provides the kind of functionality that I think you are looking for. You could take a look at that. And if you're not using jQuery, I'm pretty sure that every major JS ui library has this kind of functionality (Dojo's Grid, ExtJS' ArrayGrid, YUI's DataTable, etc.).
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