In the present work, four different techniques are used in designing the microstrip low pass filters (LPF). These techniques include LPF with fractal defected ground structure (DGS), LPF with continuous minkowiski fractal element, multi-stop band filter with discontinuous minkowiski element, and finally a wide multi-stop filter with separated interdigcap shape. A microstrip PBG filter of minkowiski element and interdigcap shape was designed to operate as a multifrequency band stop filter. With an appropriate fractal geometry of minkowişki and interdigcap elements, a wide stop-band at different frequencies are obtained. A continuous sinusoidal fractal slots are designed to work as a wide LPF. A novel fractal DGS for the microstrip LPF is proposed. The proposed fractal DGS can provide better band gap, and slow-wave characteristics. The numerical results show that a LPF of continuous and discontinuous fractal minkowiski elements in ground plane is obtained with a bandwidth 0 - 3 GHz for a slot width 0.5mm. However, if the slot width is taken equal 0.2 mm, the bandwidth is increased up to 10 GHZ. With suitable choice of number of elements, one can control the filter bandwidth. With a discontinuous fractal minkowiski and interdigcap element in ground plane, the filter response is forced to have a stop band at resonance frequency of fo and repeated at 2fo, .. etc. The numerical results obtained using an analytical technique with the aid of a numerical package (Sonnet) which is used in microstrip analysis.