From 98ae457aec038ed0f228385833d520349ba79027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Garrison <wowmotty@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 05:23:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Core: Prevent overwriting default widgetOptions. Fixes #1356

---
 js/jquery.tablesorter.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/js/jquery.tablesorter.js b/js/jquery.tablesorter.js
index a885a402..e8fa8497 100644
--- a/js/jquery.tablesorter.js
+++ b/js/jquery.tablesorter.js
@@ -1917,7 +1917,7 @@
 				for ( indx = 0; indx < len; indx++ ) {
 					widget = ts.getWidgetById( c.widgets[ indx ] );
 					if ( widget && widget.options ) {
-						c.widgetOptions = $.extend( true, {}, widget.options, c.widgetOptions );
+						c.widgetOptions = $.extend( true, widget.options, c.widgetOptions );
 						// add widgetOptions to defaults for option validator
 						$.extend( true, ts.defaults.widgetOptions, widget.options );
 					}