tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

Documentation

• See the full documentation.
• All of the original document pages have been included.
• Information from my blog post on undocumented options and lots of new demos have also been included.
• Change log moved from included text file into the wiki documentation.

Demos

• Basic alpha-numeric sort Demo.
• Links to demo pages can be found within the main documentation.
• More demos & playgrounds - updated in the wiki pages.

Features

• Multi-column alphanumeric sorting.
• Multi-tbody sorting - see the options table on the main document page.
• Parsers for sorting text, alphanumeric text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats) & time. Add your own easily.
• Support for ROWSPAN and COLSPAN on TH elements.
• Support secondary "hidden" sorting (e.g., maintain alphabetical sort when sorting on other criteria).
• Extensibility via widget system.
• Cross-browser: IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+.
• Small code size.
• Works with jQuery 1.2.6+ (jQuery 1.4.1+ needed with some widgets).
• Works with jQuery 1.9+ ($.browser.msie was removed; needed in the original version).

Licensing

• Copyright (c) 2007 Christian Bach.
• Original examples and docs at: http://tablesorter.com.
• Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.

Special Thanks

• Big shout-out to Nick Craver for getting rid of the eval() function that was previously needed for multi-column sorting.
• Big thanks to thezoggy for helping with code, themes and providing valuable feedback.
• Big thanks to ThsSin- for taking over for a while and also providing valuable feedback.
• And, of course thanks to everyone else that has contributed, and continues to contribute to this forked project!

Change Log

View the complete listing here.

Version 3.0.1 beta (11/2/2013)

• Updated with changes made to v2.13.1 & v2.13.2.
  • updated filter widget
  • pager plugin & pager widget (countChildRows)
  • editable widget

Version 3.0.0 beta

• Note!
  • Version 3 will be modularized so that the core plugin will only deal with widgets & contain some basic utility functions which are used by various widgets. Yes, this means sorting will also become a widget.
  • This beta version no longer supports older versions of jQuery; You now need at least jQuery v1.4.3+ (untested).
  • This is still in beta, so I have yet to rename/reorganize the options.
  • This branch is up-to-date with version 2.13.0.
  • Documentation, minified files and component.json files have not been updated!
  • Please don't open a new issue, add any comments and/or suggestions to issue #122.
  • I am open-minded & I will listen to any and all of your valuable feedback!
• Plugin restructured to not use "new" - anticipating making the plugin compatible with Zepto.
• Plugin reorganized
  • Moved almost all functions into "categories": widgets, parsers, build, sort & utility.
  • Renamed a bunch of functions so everything makes more sense (e.g. $.tablesorter.addWidget is now $.tablesorter.widget.add; major functions like this are mapped back to addWidget to ease you into this version)
  • Updated all parsers & widgets to use the updated function names - I might have missed some.
  • Updated tests
• Added basic Zepto support
  • tablesorter appears to function normally - minimum requirements of at least zepto.js, data.js, event.js, selector.js and ajax.js (if loading files).
  • As yet untested with pager, parsers & widgets.
  • No metadata support is available when using Zepto. I am not going to bother with continuing to support or converting the metadata plugin.