filter table columns (not table rows)

filter table columns (not table rows)

hey,

I am desperately looking for a jquery script that can filter (and hide) table columns - but so far I just found filters that hide rows. May be an example will make it more clear:

In a table like

|A|B|C|
|D|E|F|

a search of E hides "|A|B|C|" and only shows

|D|E|F|

I am looking for something that would hide the first and the third column and only display

|B|
|E|

Since I am quite new to jquery, I did not succeed in re-writing the scripts that are already there...

Thanks,
ghost34