filter results by clicking a text link

I am in the middle of a project on my own website and want to add a filter on it, the results are displayed in a HTML table and are pulled in from a mysql database using php and want to add a text filter on the site. I want the filter to work by clicking on a status text link such as open, pending or closed and it filters the results that match that on the same page for that relevant text value. Is that something that can be done using javascript/ajax?

Is there any example of the code as...

filter results by clicking a text link

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