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-Originally posted by Jeremy Satterfield in his [blog][1], [jQuery plugins][2] and on [Snipplr][3]. This fork by [Mottie][4].
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 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.