<strong>Version:</strong><aclass="current-version"href="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter/archive/master.zip">2.1+</a> (<ahref="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter">forked on github</a> from <ahref="http://tablesorter.com/docs/">version 2.0.5</a>, <ahref="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter/wiki/Change">changelog</a>)<br>
tablesorter is a <aclass="external"href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a> 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.
It has many useful features including:
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<ul>
<li>Multi-column sorting</li>
<li>Multi-tbody sorting - see the <ahref="#options">options</a> table below</li>
<li>Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats), time. <ahref="example-parsers.html">Add your own easily</a></li>
<em>NOTE!</em> tablesorter will auto-detect most data types including numbers, dates, ip-adresses for more information see <ahref="#Examples">Examples</a>
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<h1>Examples</h1>
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These examples will show what's possible with tablesorter. You need Javascript enabled to
run these samples, just like you and your users will need Javascript enabled to use tablesorter.
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<h3>Basic</h3>
<h4>Sorting</h4>
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<li><ahref="example-option-sort-list.html">Set an initial sorting order using options</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-trigger-sort.html">Sort table using a link outside the table</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-option-sort-force.html">Force a default sorting order</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-option-sort-append.html">Append a sort to the selected sorting order</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-child-rows.html">Child rows; how to add rows that sort with their parent row</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-child-rows-filtered.html">Child rows + filter widget; how they work together</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-option-sort-order.html">Direction of initial sort</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-parsers-dates.html">Assorted date parsers</a> (<spanclass="version">v2.8</span>).</li>
<li><ahref="example-parsers-ignore-articles.html">Ignore leading articles parser</a> (Ignore "A", "An" and "The" in titles) (<spanclass="version">v2.8</span>).</li>
<li><ahref="example-widget-grouping.html">Input/select parsers</a> (used by Grouping rows widget) (<spanclass="version">v2.8</span>).</li>
<li><ahref="example-update-all.html">Update an entire table column (<code>thead</code> and <code>tbody</code>)</a> (<spanclass="version">v2.8</span>).</li>
<li>*Note* you can use class names (version 2.0.11+, <ahref="example-parsers-class-name.html">demo</a>), or jQuery data (version 2.3+, <ahref="example-parsers-jquery-data.html">demo</a>) instead of meta data</li>
<li><ahref="example-meta-sort-list.html">Set a initial sorting order using metadata.</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-meta-headers.html">Disable header using metadata</a></li>
<li><ahref="example-meta-parsers.html">Setting column parser using metadata</a></li>
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<h1>Configuration</h1>
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tablesorter has many options you can pass in at initialization to achieve different effects<br>
<em>TIP!</em> Click on the link in the property column to reveal full details (or <ahref="#"class="toggleAll">toggle</a>|<ahref="#"class="showAll">show</a>|<ahref="#"class="hideAll">hide</a> all) or double click to update the browser location.
<td>Add this css class to a child row that should always be attached to its parent. Click on the "cssChildRow" link to toggle the view on the attached child row. Previous default was "expand-child" (Changed in v2.4).</td>
Previously the row would get the same class as the header cells, this class was added to make it easier to determine what element was being targetted in the plugin.
As of v2.4, an <i> element, with this class name, is automatically appended to the header cells. To prevent the plugin from adding an <i> element to the headers, set the <code>cssIcon</code> option to an empty string.<br>
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In v2.7, the icon will only be added to the header if <strong>both</strong> the <code>cssIcon</code> option is set AND the <code>headerTemplate</code> option includes the icon tag (<code>{icon}</code>).
<td>This class name is added to the header cell that is currently being sorted or filted. To prevent this class name from being added, set the <ahref="#showprocessing"><code>showProcessing</code></a> option to <code>false</code> (v2.4).</td>
As an example, I've split up this options table into three (3) tbodies. The first contains the active options, the second is the info block with a row that only contains the text "Deprecated Options", and the last tbody contains the deprecated options. Sort the table to see how each tbody sorts separately.
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<em>NOTE!</em> The pager plugin will only be applied to the first tbody, as always. I may work on modifying this behavior in the future, if I can figure out the best implementation.
In previous versions, this option was set as "us", "uk" or "dd/mm/yy". This option was modified to better fit needed date formats. It will only work with four digit years!<br>
The sorter should be set to "shortDate" and the date format can be set in the "dateFormat" option or set for a specific columns within the "headers" option.
Setting this option to true will delay parsing of all table cell data until the user initializes a sort. This speeds up the initialization process of very large tables, but the data still needs to be parsed, so the delay is still present upon initial sort.
<td>Internal list of each header element as selected using jQuery selectors in the <ahref="#selectorheaders"><code>selectorHeaders</code></a> option. Not really useful for normal usage.</td>
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<td><ahref="#"class="toggle2">headers</a></td>
<td>Object</td>
<td>null</td>
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An object of instructions for per-column controls in the format: <code>headers: { 0: { option: setting }, ... }</code>
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For example, to disable sorting on the first two columns of a table: <code>headers: { 0: { sorter: false}, 1: {sorter: false} }</code>.<br>
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The plugin attempts to detect the type of data that is contained in a column, but if it can't figure it out then it defaults to alphanumeric. You can easily override this by setting the header argument (or column parser).
See the full list of <ahref="#parsers">default parsers</a> here or <ahref="example-parsers.html">write your own</a>.
<code>{content}</code> will be replaced by the current header HTML content.<br>
<code>{icon}</code> will be replaced by <code><i class="tablesorter-icon"></i></code>, but only if a class name is defined in the <code>cssIcon</code> option.<br>
After the template string is built, the <code>onRenderTemplate</code> function is called to allow further manipulation. Please read more about this <ahref="#onrendertemplate"><code>onRenderTemplate</code> function</a> and/or check out the example (link to the right).
<td>Apply widgets after table initializes (v2.3.5).
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When true, all widgets set by the <code>widgets</code> option will apply after tablesorter has initialized, this is the normal behavior.<br>
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If false, the each widget set by the <code>widgets</code> option will be initialized, meaning the "init" function is run, but the format function will not be run. This is useful when running the pager plugin after the table is set up. The pager plugin will initialize, then apply all set widgets.<br>
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Why you ask? Well, lets say you have a table with 1000 rows that will have the pager plugin applied to it. Before this option, the table would finish its setup, all widgets would be applied to the 1000 rows, pager plugin initializes and reapplies the widgets on the say 20 rows showing; making the widget application to 100 rows unnecessary and a waste of time. So, when this option is false, widgets will only be applied to the table after the pager is set up.
This function is called after content is to the TH tags (after the template is procressed and added). You can use this to modify the HTML in each header tag for additional styling.
In versions 2.0.6+, all TH text is wrapped in a div with a class name of "tablesorter-inner" by default. In the example below, the header cell (TH) div is given a class name (<ahref="http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/tablesorter/tablesorter.htm">source</a>).
<small>* Note: this function adds additional rendering time to the table if any DOM manipulation is done. Because this time will be on top of the processing time already added by the template.</small>
This function is called after the template string has been built, but before the template string is applied to the header and before the <code>onRenderHeader</code> function is called (v2.7).
The <code>onRenderTemplate</code> function receives a column index and template string parameters. The template string, from the <ahref="#headertemplate"><code>headerTemplate</code> option</a>, will already have the <code>{icon}</code> and <code>{content}</code> tags replaced; it's just a string of formatted HTML. When done manipulating this string, return it. Here is an example:
});</pre>The <code>template</code> parameter can be manipulated as a string, or if you prefer, turn it into a jQuery object (<code>var $t = $(template)</code>) to find and replace content as desired. Just make sure you return a string (<code>return $t.html()</code>)<br>
From the example function above, you'll end up with something similar to this HTML (only the thead is shown)<preclass="prettyprint lang-html"><thead>
<tr><th><code>sorter: "usLongDate"</code></th><td>Sort by date (U.S. Standard, e.g. Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM or 18 Jan 2001 9:12 AM (new in v2.7.4)).</td></tr>
<tr><th><code>sorter: "shortDate"</code></th><td>Sort by a shortened date (see <ahref="#dateformat"><code>dateFormat</code></a>; these formats can also be followed by a time).</td></tr>
<tr><th><code>sorter: "time"</code></th><td>Sort by time (23:59 or 12:59 pm).</td></tr>
<tr><th><code>sorter: "metadata"</code></th><td>Sort by the sorter value in the metadata - requires the metadata plugin.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><br>
Check out the <ahref="#headers"><code>headers</code></a> option to see how to use these parsers in your table (example #1).<br>Or add a header class name using "sorter-" plus the parser name (example #2), this includes custom parsers (example #3).
<br>Added <code>></code> to the selector in v2.3 to prevent targetting nested table headers. It was modified again in v2.4 to include <code>td</code> cells within the thead.
<td>This CSS class name can be applied to all rows that are to be removed prior to triggering a table update. (v2.1).
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It was necessary to add this option because some widgets add table rows for styling (see the <ahref="example-widgets.html">writing custom widgets demo</a>) and if a table update is triggered (<code>$('table').trigger('update');</code>) those added rows will automatically become incorporated into the table.
<td>Show an indeterminate timer icon in the header when the table is sorted or filtered. Please note that due to javascript processing, the icon may not show as being animated. I'm looking into this further and would appreciate any feedback or suggestions with the coding (v2.4).</td>
<td>Use to add an additional forced sort that is <strong>prepended</strong> to <ahref="#sortlist"><code>sortList</code></a>.
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For example, <code>sortForce: [[0,0]]</code> will sort the first column in ascending order. After the forced sort, the user selected column(s), or during initialzation, the sorting order defined in the sortList will follow. And lastly, the sort defined in the <ahref="#sortappend"><code>sortAppend</code></a> option will be applied. More explicitly:<br>
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There are three options to determine the sort order and this is the order of priority:
<ol>
<li><ahref="#sortforce"><code>sortForce</code></a> forces the user to have this/these column(s) sorted first (null by default).</li>
<li><ahref="#sortlist"><code>SortList</code></a> is the initial sort order of the columns.</li>
<li><ahref="#sortappend"><code>SortAppend</code></a> is the default sort that is added to the end of the users sort selection (null by default).</li>
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The value of these sort options is an array of arrays and can include one or more columns. The format is an array of instructions for per-column sorting and direction in the format: <code>[[columnIndex, sortDirection], ... ]</code> where <code>columnIndex</code> is a zero-based index for your columns left-to-right and <code>sortDirection</code> is 0 for Ascending and 1 for Descending. A valid argument that sorts ascending first by column 1 and then column 2 looks like: <code>[[0,0],[1,0]]</code>.
The value contains an array of instructions for per-column sorting and direction in the format: <code>[[columnIndex, sortDirection], ... ]</code> where columnIndex is a zero-based index for your columns left-to-right and sortDirection is 0 for Ascending and 1 for Descending. A valid argument that sorts ascending first by column 1 and then column 2 looks like: <code>[[0,0],[1,0]]</code>. Please see <ahref="#sortforce"><code>sortForce</code></a> for more details on other sort order options.<br>
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This option can also be set using jQuery data (v2.3.1) or metadata on the table:
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<tr><tdcolspan="2"><strong>** Note</strong>: <code>data-sortlist</code> data is not supported in jQuery versions older than 1.4.</td></tr>
<td>Use to add an additional forced sort that will be appended to the dynamic selections by the user.
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For example, can be used to sort people alphabetically after some other user-selected sort that results in rows with the same value like dates or money due. It can help prevent data from appearing as though it has a random secondary sort.<br>
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The value contains an array of instructions for per-column sorting and direction in the format: <code>[[columnIndex, sortDirection], ... ]</code> where <code>columnIndex</code> is a zero-based index for your columns left-to-right and sortDirection is 0 for Ascending and 1 for Descending. A valid argument that sorts ascending first by column 1 and then column 2 looks like: <code>[[0,0],[1,0]]</code>. Please see <ahref="#sortforce"><code>sortForce</code></a> for more details on other sort order options.
This sets the direction a column will sort when clicking on the header for the first time. Valid arguments are <code>"asc"</code> for Ascending or <code>"desc"</code> for Descending.<br>
Boolean flag indicating if certain accented characters within the table will be replaced with their equivalent characters. (Modified v2.2).
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<li>This option no longer switches the sort to use the <code>String.localeCompare</code> method.</li>
<li>When this option is <code>true</code>, the text parsed from table cells will convert accented characters to their equivalent to allow the alphanumeric sort to properly sort.</li>
<li>If <code>false</code> (default), any accented characters are treated as their value in the standard unicode order.</li>
<li>The following characters are replaced for both upper and lower case (information obtained from <ahref="http://sugarjs.com/sorting">sugar.js sorting equivalents</a> table):
<ul>
<li><code>áàâãä</code> replaced with <code>a</code></li>
<li><code>ç</code> replaced with <code>c</code></li>
<li><code>éèêë</code> replaced with <code>e</code></li>
<li><code>íìİîï</code> replaced with <code>i</code></li>
<li><code>óòôõö</code> replaced with <code>o</code></li>
<li><code>úùûü</code> replaced with <code>u</code></li>
<li><code>ß</code> replaced with <code>S</code></li>
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<li>Please see the example page for instrcutions on how to modify the above equivalency table.</li>
<li>If you would like to continuing using the <code>String.localeCompare</code> method, then set the <code>sortLocaleCompare</code> option to <code>false</code> and use the new <ahref="#textsorter"><code>textSorter</code></a> option as follows:
<em>NOTE:</em> See the <ahref="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter/wiki/Language">Language</a> wiki page for language specific examples and how to extend the character equivalent tables seen in the <ahref="example-locale-sort.html">sortLocaleCompare demo</a>.
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<del>Boolean flag indicating whenever to use javascript <code>String.localeCompare</code> method or not.<br>
This is only used when comparing text with international character strings. A sort using localeCompare will sort accented characters the same as their unaccented counterparts.</del>
Setting this option to <code>true</code> will allow you to click on the table header a third time to reset the sort direction. (v2.0.27).
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<br>Don't confuse this option with the <ahref="#sortreset-method"><code>sortReset</code> method</a>. This option only resets the column sort after a third click, while the method immediately resets the entire table sort.
<td>The key used to reset sorting on the entire table. Defaults to the control key. The other options are <code>"shiftKey"</code> or <code>"altKey"</code>. Reference: <aclass="external"href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/MouseEvent">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/MouseEvent</a></td>
Setting this option to <code>true</code> will start the sort with the <ahref="#sortinitialorder"><code>sortInitialOrder</code></a> when clicking on a previously unsorted column. (v2.0.31).
<td>The key used to select more than one column for multi-column sorting. Defaults to the shift key. The other options are <code>"ctrlKey"</code> or <code>"altKey"</code>. Reference: <aclass="external"href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/MouseEvent">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/MouseEvent</a></td>
<td>Defines which method is used to extract data from a table cell for sorting.
The built-in option is <code>"simple"</code> which is the equivalent of doing this inside of the textExtraction function: <code>$(node).text();</code>.
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You can customize the text extraction by writing your own text extraction function "myTextExtraction" which you define like:
tablesorter will pass the current table cell object for you to parse and return. Thanks to Josh Nathanson for the examples. Updated to a jQuery example by Rob G (Mottie).
<p>Now if the text you are finding in the script above is say a number, then just include the <ahref="#headers"><code>headers</code></a> sorter option to specify how to sort it. Also in this example, we will specify that the special textExtraction code is only needed for the second column ("1" because we are using a zero-based index). All other columns will ignore this textExtraction function.</p>
<p>Added <code>table</code> and <code>cellIndex</code> variables to the <code>textExtraction</code> function in version 2.1.2.</p>
Initialize widgets using this option ( e.g. <code>widgets : ['zebra']</code>, or custom widgets <code>widgets: ['zebra', 'myCustomWidget'];</code>, see <ahref="example-widgets.html">this demo</a> on how to write your own custom widget ).
In version 2.1, all widget options have been moved into this option. This is a move to store all widget specific options in one place so as not to polute the main table options. All current widgets have been modified to use this new option. (v2.1).
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Previously documented widget options <ahref="#widgetzebra"><code>widgetZebra</code></a>, <ahref="#widgetcolumns"><code>widgetColumns</code></a> and <ahref="#widgetuitheme"><code>widgetUitheme</code></a> will be retained for backwards compatibility.<br>
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Use the <ahref="#widgetoptions"><code>widgetOptions</code></a> option as follows, please note that each option is followed by a comma (except the last one):
This option is being <spanclass="deprecated">deprecated</span>!
It has been replaced by <ahref="#widget-columns"><code>widgetOptions.columns</code></a>; but is still available for backwards compatibility.
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When the column styling widget is initialized, it automatically applied the default class names of <code>"primary"</code> for the primary sort, <code>"secondary"</code> for the next sort, <code>"tertiary"</code> for the next sort, and so on (add more as needed)... (v2.0.17).
Use the <ahref="#widgetcolumns"><code>widgetColumns</code></a> option to change the css class name as follows:
This option is being <spanclass="deprecated">deprecated</span>!
It has been replaced by <ahref="#widget-uitheme"><code>widgetOptions.uitheme</code></a>; but is still available for backwards compatibility.
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Used when the ui theme styling widget is initialized. It automatically applies the default class names of <code>"ui-icon-arrowthick-2-n-s"</code> for the unsorted column, <code>"ui-icon-arrowthick-1-s"</code> for the descending sort and <code>"ui-icon-arrowthick-1-n"</code> for the ascending sort. (v2.0.9).
Find more jQuery UI class names by hovering over the Framework icons on this page: <aclass="external"href="http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/">http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/</a><br>
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Use the <ahref="#widgetuitheme"><code>widgetUitheme</code></a> option to change the css class name as follows:
tablesorter widgets have many options, and to better organize them, they now are grouped together inside of the <code>widgetOptions</code>. Thanks to thezoggy for putting together this jQuery-widget compatibility table, but please note:
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<li>The applied order will not change depending on the widgets applied, but the numbers will change.</li>
<li>The widgets are actually applied in reverse alphabetical order. This includes any custom widget names, so a custom widget named "zoom" will be the first applied widget. The only exception is the zebra widget which will always be the last widget applied.</li>
<li>The pager, being a plugin, is actually initialized after tablesorter has initialized and all selected widgets applied.</li>
<li>* The <code>saveSort</code> and <code>resizable</code> widgets use the <code>$.tablesorter.storage</code> function by default and thus need the <code>parseJSON</code> function which is available in jQuery 1.4.1+.</li>
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<em>TIP!</em> Click on the link in the property column to reveal full details (or <ahref="#"class="toggleAll">toggle</a>|<ahref="#"class="showAll">show</a>|<ahref="#"class="hideAll">hide</a> all) or double click to update the browser location.
Columns widget: When the column styling widget is initialized, it automatically applied the default class names of <code>"primary"</code> for the primary sort, <code>"secondary"</code> for the next sort, <code>"tertiary"</code> for the next sort, and so on (add more as needed)... (Modified v2.1).
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Use the <ahref="#widget-columns"><code>"columns"</code></a> option to change the css class name as follows:
Filter widget: If there are child rows in the table (rows with class name from <ahref="#csschildrow"><code>"cssChildRow"</code></a> option) and this option is <code>true</code> and a match is found anywhere in the child row, then it will make that row visible.
(Modified v2.1).
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Use the <ahref="#widget-filter-childrows"><code>filter_childRows</code></a> option include child row text as follows:
A new file has been included named "jquery.tablesorter.widgets-filter-formatter.js". It includes code to add jQuery UI and HTML5 controls via the <ahref="#widget-filter-formatter"><code>filter_formatter</code></a> option.<br>
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Most of the formatter functions have an option named <code>valueToHeader</code> which, when <code>true</code> adds a span to the header cell above the filter row and updates it with the current control's value (see <ahref="example-widget-filter-formatter-2.html">example 2</a>). If the option exists and is set to <code>false</code>, then the current value is added to the control's handle and css can be used to create a popup to show the current value (see <ahref="example-widget-filter-formatter-1.html">example 1</a>).<br>
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Another custom option named <code>addToggle</code> is included with the "uiSpinner", "html5Color" and "html5Number" code. This allows the user to disable the control to show all table rows. For the single sliders, "uiSlider" and "html5Range", the minimum value is used to clear the filter (show all rows).<br>
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The options included for each jQuery UI control only show basic options, but any or all of the jQuery UI options for that control can be included.<br>
For other examples, please refer to the example pages. Formatter part 1 (example 1) adds jQuery UI controls to the filter row, while formatter part 2 (example 2) adds HTML5 controls, if supported, to the filter row.
// set the column value to true, and/or add "filter-select" class name to header
0 : true
}
}
});
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Alternately, instead of setting the column filter funtion to true, give the column header a class name of "filter-select". See the <ahref="example-widget-filter-custom.html">demo</a>.<br><br>
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<li>
Make a select dropdown list with custom option settings. Each option must have a corresponding function which returns a boolean value; return true if there is a match, or false with no match.
Filter widget: Set this option to <code>true</code> to hide the filter row initially. The row is revealed by hovering over the visible portion of the filter row or by giving any filter input/select focus (tab key) (v2.4).
});</pre>You can change the style (thickness) of the hidden filter row in the tablesorter theme css. Look for <code>.tablesorter-filter-row</code> (revealed row) and <code>.tablesorter-filter-row.hideme</code> (for the hidden row) css definitions.</div>
Filter widget: Set this option to <code>false</code> to make the column content search case-insensitive, so typing in "a" will not find "Albert". (v2.3.4)
Filter widget: If <code>true</code>, a search of the column content will occur as the user types, with the delay set in the <code>filter_searchDelay</code> option (v2.9; <spanclass="version updated">v2.10</span>).
This option, when <code>false</code> allows you to disable the live search behavior, so that a filter is only applied when the user presses enter (or uses escape to clear and cancel the search).<br>
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If this option is set to a number, e.g. <code>4</code>, a search of the column content will not initiate until this minimum number of characters are entered into the input.
Filter widget: If a header contains a select dropdown and this class name, only the available (visible) options in the column will show (<spanclass="version">v2.10.1</span>).
This option is useful after one or more columns have been filtered, then the column select filter with this class applied will only show the contents of the column within the dropdown that are currently visible. See the <ahref="example-widget-filter-custom.html">custom filter widget</a> demo "Discount" column for an example (sort the "First Name" column first).<br>
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<spanclass="alert">Caution:</span> The main issue with this functionality is with keyboard accessibility. If the keyboard is used to select an option, only the first and default options will be available for chosing. The only way to select other options is with the mouse.
To use this option, point to a reset button or link using a jQuery selector. For example, add this button (<code><button class="reset">Reset</button></code>) to the table header, or anywhere else on the page. That element will be used as a reset for all column and quick search filters (clears all fields):
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Use the <ahref="#widget-filter-reset"><code>filter_reset</code></a> option as follows:
Filter widget: Set this option to <code>true</code> to use the filter to find text from the start of the column, so typing in "a" will find "albert" but not "frank", both have a's. (v2.1).
<li>To only use parsed data in specific columns, set this option to <code>false</code> and use any of the following (they all do the same thing), set in order of priority:
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<li>jQuery data <code>data-filter="parsed"</code>.</li>
<li>metadata <code>class="{ filter: 'parsed'}"</code>. This requires the metadata plugin.</li>
<li>header class name <code>class="filter-parsed"</code>.</li>
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<li>Remember that parsed data most likely doesn't match the actual table cell text, <code>20%</code> becomes <code>20</code> and <code>Jan 1, 2013 12:01 AM</code> becomes <code>1357020060000</code>.</li>
Filter widget: This option contains the name of the data-attribute which contains the default (starting) filter value (<spanclass="version">v2.10.8</span>).
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Use the <ahref="#widget-filter-defaultattrib"><code>filter_defaultAttrib</code></a> option as follows:
});</pre>Then add the default filter value to the table header as follows:<preclass="prettyprint lang-html"><th data-value="<30">Age</th></pre></div>
Sticky Headers widget: If the table has an ID defined, the suffix from this option will be added to the ID in the cloned sticky table (<spanclass="version">v2.9</span>).
Sticky Headers widget: If this option is <code>false</code> and a caption exists, it will not be included in the sticky header (<spanclass="version">v2.10.8</span>).
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Use the <ahref="#widget-sticky-headers-include-caption"><code>stickyHeaders_includeCaption</code></a> option as follows:
Sticky Headers widget: Set the sticky header offset from the top as a <em>Number</em> or jQuery selector <em>string</em> or <em>object</em> (<spanclass="version">v2.10</span>).
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If the page includes a fixed navigation bar at the top, like Bootstrap, set <ahref="#widget-sticky-headers-offset"><code>"stickyHeaders_offset"</code></a> option to offset the sticky table header to be below the fixed navigation by setting this option using any of the following examples:<br>
Sticky Headers widget: If <code>true</code>, sticky table headers will resize automatically when content is added to or removed from the table headers (<spanclass="version">v2.10</span>).
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While this option is <code>true</code>, a timer is initialized to check the width of every header cell every 1/4 second. If this causes lag, or any other problems, set this option to <code>false</code>.
When this option is <code>false</code>, sticky table headers are unable to detect and match the width of the original table headers when content is added or removed.<br>
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Use the <ahref="#widget-sticky-headers-addresizeevent"><code>"stickyHeaders_addResizeEvent"</code></a> option as follows:
Resizable widget: If this option is set to <code>false</code>, resized column widths will not be saved. Previous saved values will be restored on page reload (v2.4).
Resizable widget: If this option is set to <code>true</code>, a resizing anchor will be included in the last column of the table (<spanclass="version">v2.8.3</span>).
If an anchor was included and the table is full width, the column would resize in the opposite direction which my not be intuitive to the user. So set this option as desired, but please be mindful of the user experience.<br>
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Use the <ahref="#widget-resizable-addlastcolumn"><code>"resizable_addLastColumn"</code></a> option to include the last column resizer as follows:
saveSort widget: If this option is set to <code>false</code>, new sorts will not be saved. Any previous saved sort will be restored on page reload (v2.4).
This option contains the name of the theme. Currently jQuery UI ("jui") and Bootstrap ("bootstrap") themes are supported. To modify the class names used, extend from the theme (updated v2.4)
This widget option replaces the previous <ahref="#widgetuitheme">widgetUitheme</a>. All theme css names are now contained within the <code>$.tablesorter.themes</code> variable. Extend the default theme as seen above.<br>
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The class names from the <code>$.tablesorter.themes.{name}</code> variable are applied to the table as indicated.<br>
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As before the jQuery UI theme applies the default class names of <code>"ui-icon-arrowthick-2-n-s"</code> for the unsorted column, <code>"ui-icon-arrowthick-1-s"</code> for the descending sort and <code>"ui-icon-arrowthick-1-n"</code> for the ascending sort. (Modified v2.1; Updated in v2.4). Find more jQuery UI class names by hovering over the Framework icons on this page: <aclass="external"href="http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/">http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/</a><br>
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Use the <ahref="#widget-uitheme"><code>"uitheme"</code></a> option to change the css class name as follows:
zebra widget: When the zebra striping widget is initialized, it automatically applied the default class names of <code>"even"</code> and <code>"odd"</code>. (Modified v2.1).
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Use the <ahref="#widget-zebra"><code>"zebra"</code></a> option to change the theme as follows:
Target your one or more pager markup blocks by setting this option with a jQuery selector.
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This is some example pager markup. It <em>should</em> contain all of the controls set by the multiple css-named options:<preclass="prettyprint lang-html">
Set this option to include a url template to use so that the pager plugin can interact with your database (Added v2.1; <spanclass="version updated">v2.9</span>).
<tr><td><code>{page+1}</code></td><td>One-based index of the current pager page (replace "+1" with any number) (e.g. <code>{page+3}</code>) (<spanclass="version">v2.9</span>).</td></tr>
The <code>col</code> portion of the <code>{sortList:col}</code> tag can be any name string (no spaces) to indicate the name of the variable to apply. So if your current sortList is <code>[[2,0],[3,0]]</code>, it becomes <code>"&sort[2]=0&sort[3]=0"</code> in the url. <code>{sort:col}</code> shortened tag also works (<spanclass="version">v2.9</span>).
<td>Adds the value of the current filters to the ajax url string into a "fcol" array, so your server-side code knows how to filter the data (v2.6).<br>
The <code>fcol</code> portion of the <code>{filterList:fcol}</code> tag can be any name string (no spaces) to indicate the name of the variable to apply. So if your current filters are <code>['','Blue',13]</code>, it becomes <code>"&fcol[2]=Blue&fcol[3]=13"</code> in the url. <code>{filter:col}</code> shortened tag also works (<spanclass="version updated">v2.9</span>).
The <code>customAjaxUrl</code> function has two parameters, the table DOM element and the processed url string (all tags within the <code>ajaxUrl</code> have been replaced with their appropriate values).
This option contains the ajax settings for the pager interaction with your database (<spanclass="version">v2.10</span>).
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The <code>ajaxObject</code> is completely customizable, except for the `url` setting which is processed using the pager's `ajaxUrl` and `customAjaxUrl` options.<br>
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See all possible settings in the <ahref="http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/#jQuery-ajax-settings">jQuery.ajax documentation</a>
This function is required to return the ajax data obtained from your server into a useable format for tablesorter to apply to the table (v2.1, <spanclass="version updated">v2.10</span>).
In <spanclass="version">v2.10</span>, the returned rows is now optional. And it can either be an array of arrays or a jQuery object (not attached to the table)
]</pre>Here is some example JSON (comments added, but not allowed in JSON) which is contained in the <ahref="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter/blob/master/docs/assets/City0.json">City0.json</a> file:
<td>This option allows you to format the output display which can show the current page, total pages, filtered pages, current start and end rows, total rows and filtered rows (v2.0.9).<divclass="collapsible">
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This option replaced the original <code>separator</code> option, which only separated the page number from the total number of pages. The formatted output from this option is placed inside the information block targeted by the <code>cssPageDisplay</code> option.<br>
<td>Maintain the height of the table even when fewer than the set number of records is shown (v2.1; updated 2.7.1).
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This option replaced the original <code>positionFixed</code> and <code>offset</code> options which set the absolute position of the pager block.<br>
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If <code>true</code>, it should maintain the height of the table, even when viewing fewer than the set number of records (go to the last page of any demo to see this in action). It works by adding an empty row to make up the differences in height.
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<td><ahref="example-pager.html">Example</a></td>
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<td><ahref="#"class="toggle2">removeRows</a></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>false</td>
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If <code>true</code>, rows are removed from the table to speed up the sort of large tables (v2.0.21).
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The original tablesorter plugin (v2.0.5) removed rows automatically, without providing an option. It really does speed up sorting of very large tables, but also breaks updating and modifying table content dynamically.<br>
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If this option is <code>false</code>, the addon only hides the non-visible rows; this is useful if you plan to add/remove rows with the pager enabled.
<td>This option contains a jQuery selector string pointing to the go to first page arrow. See <ahref="#pager-container">container</a> for full HTML.</td>
<td>This option contains a jQuery selector string pointing to the go to previous page arrow. See <ahref="#pager-container">container</a> for full HTML.</td>
<td>This option contains a jQuery selector string pointing to the go to next page arrow. See <ahref="#pager-container">container</a> for full HTML.</td>
<td>This option contains a jQuery selector string pointing to the go to last page arrow. See <ahref="#pager-container">container</a> for full HTML.</td>
<td>This option contains a jQuery selector string pointing to the page select dropdown. See <ahref="#pager-container">container</a> for full HTML (v2.4)
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Please note that this select dropdown is initially empty and automatically updated by the plugin with the correct number of pages, which depends on the <code>size</code> setting.
<td>This option contains a jQuery selector string pointing to the output element (v2.0.9)
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In the original tablesorter (v2.0.5) this option could only target an input, it was updated (v2.0.9) to display the formatted output from the <code>output</code> option inside of any element (span, div or input).
More explicitly, this class is applied to the pager arrows when they are at either extreme of pages and the <code>updateArrows</code> option is <code>true</code>. When the pager has been disabled, this class is applied to all controls.<br>
tablesorter has some methods available to allow updating, resorting or applying widgets to a table after it has been initialized.
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<em>TIP!</em> Click on the link in the method column to reveal full details (or <ahref="#"class="toggleAll">toggle</a>|<ahref="#"class="showAll">show</a>|<ahref="#"class="hideAll">hide</a> all) or double click to update the browser location.
It does not work the same as "update" in that it only adds rows, it does not remove them.<br>
Also, use this method to add table rows while using the pager plugin. If the "update" method is used, only the visible table rows continue to exist.
<preclass="prettyprint lang-javascript">// Target a specific header
$('table').find('th:eq(2)').trigger('sort');</pre>Using this method will maintain the sorting order; so, if the column is already sorted in ascending order, this method will act as if you manually clicked on the header. Whatever sort order is applied is dependent on other option settings such as <code>initialSortOrder</code>, <code>lockedOrder</code> (set within the <code>headers</code>), <code>sortReset</code> option, <code>sortRestart</code> and will be ignored if the column sort is disabled (<code>sorter: false</code>).<br>
Don't confuse this method with the <ahref="#sortreset"><code>sortReset</code> option</a>. This method immediately resets the entire table sort, while the option only resets the column sort after a third click.
Use this method when more than just one cell like in the "updateCell" method, but you may possibly have to trigger two events: both "update" and "appendCache".<br>
Note: This is the only method the pager widget uses - the entire table is stored in the cache, but only the visible portion is actually exists in the table.
<td>Apply the selected widget to the table, but the widget will not continue to be applied after each sort. See the example, it's easier than describing it.
<td>Apply the set widgets to the table. This method can be used after a table has been initialized, but it won't work unless you update the configuration settings. See the example, it's easier than describing it.
<td>Refresh the currently applied widgets. Depending on the options, it will completely remove all widgets, then re-initialize the current widgets or just remove all non-current widgets (v2.4).
<li>If <code>doAll</code> is <code>true</code> it removes all widgets from the table. If <code>false</code> only non-current widgets (from the <code>widgets</code> option) are removed.</li>
<li>When done removing widgets, the widget re-initializes the currently selected widgets, unless the <code>dontapply</code> parameter is <code>true</code> leaving the table widget-less.</li>
<li>Note that if the <code>widgets</code> option has any named widgets, they will be re-applied to the table when it gets resorted. So if you want to completely remove all widgets from the table, also clear out the widgets option <code>$('table')[0].config.widgets = [];</code></li>
<preclass="prettyprint lang-javascript">$.tablesorter.getFilters( $('table') ); // or use $('table.hasFilters') to make sure the table has a filter row</pre>
This method returns an array of filter values (e.g. <code>[ '', '', '', '', '', '2?%' ]</code>) or <code>false</code> if the selected table does not have a filter row.
If you are using the <code>filter_formatter</code> option to add custom input elements, this function may not work on those columns. Please refer to the <code>filter_formatter</code> section for more details.
<td>Added a <code>resize</code> event to the table headers - used by the stickyHeaders widget, but this is a public function available to any widget (<spanclass="version">v2.10</span>).
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There is no built-in resize event for non-window elements, so when this function is active it triggers a <code>resize</code> event when the header cell changes size. So, if you are writing your own widget and need a header <code>resize</code> event, just include the <code>jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js</code> file, or just the extract the function from that file. Enable these triggered events as follows:
<preclass="prettyprint lang-javascript">// Enable the triggering of header cell resize events as follows:
var table = $('table')[0],
disable = false,
options = {
timer : 250 // header cell size is checked every 250 milliseconds (1/4 of a second)
};
$.tablesorter.addHeaderResizeEvent( table, disable, options );</pre>Then use it in your custom widget as follows:
tablesorter has some methods available to allow updating, resorting or applying widgets to a table after it has been initialized.
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<em>TIP!</em> Click on the link in the event column to reveal full details (or <ahref="#"class="toggleAll">toggle</a>|<ahref="#"class="showAll">show</a>|<ahref="#"class="hideAll">hide</a> all) or double click to update the browser location.
You can use this event to modify the filter elements (row, inputs and/or selects) as desired. Use it as follows:<preclass="prettyprint lang-javascript">$(function(){
You can use this event to do something like remove the class added to the filter row when the filtering started. Use it as follows:<preclass="prettyprint lang-javascript">$(function(){
This event may fire before the <code>pagerComplete</code> event when ajax processing is involved, or after the <code>pagerComplete</code> on normal use.
See <ahref="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter/pull/153">issue #153</a>.
<p><strong>Pick n choose</strong> - Place at least the required files in a directory on your webserver that is accessible to a web browser. Record this location.</p>
<li><aclass="external"href="http://jquery.com/download/">jQuery</a> (1.2.6 or higher; some demos &<aclass="external"href="http://api.jquery.com/data/#data-html5">HTML5 data-attributes</a> need jQuery 1.4.3+)</li>
<li><ahref="../js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js">jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js</a> (36kb/<ahref="../js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets.min.js">17kb min</a>, includes the jQuery UI theme, columns styling, resizable columns, filter, sticky header and save sort widgets.</li>
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<strongid="Download-Themes">Themes:</strong>
<p>Theme zip files have been removed. There are now numerous themes available which <ahref="themes.html">can be seen here</a></p>
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<h1>Browser Compatibility</h1>
<p>tablesorter has been tested successfully in the following browsers with Javascript enabled:</p>
<p>If you are having a problem with the plugin or you want to submit a feature request, please <aclass="external"href="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter/issues">submit an issue</a>.</p>
<p>Some basic <ahref="../test.html">unit testing</a> has been added. If you would like to add more or report a problem, please use the appropriate link above (v2.6).</p>
<p>For questions about jQuery, try <aclass="external"href="http://irc.jquery.org/">irc</a>, <aclass="external"href="http://stackoverflow.com/tags/jquery/info">stackoverflow</a>, or the <aclass="external"href="http://forum.jquery.com/">jQuery forums</a>.</p>
Additional & Missing documentation, alphanumeric sort, numerous widgets, unit testing and other changes added by <aclass="external"href="https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter">Mottie</a>.
