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.

Notice!

• Because of the change to the internal cache, the tablesorter v2.16+ core, filter widget and pager (both plugin & widget) will only work with the same version or newer files.

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 and filtering.
• Multi-tbody sorting - see the options table on the main document page.
• Supports Bootstrap v2 and 3
• Parsers for sorting text, alphanumeric text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats) & time. Add your own easily.
• Inline editing - see demo
• 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+, Chrome 5.0+.
• Small code size, starting at 25K minified
• 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.
• Also extra thanks to christhomas and Lynesth for help with code.
• And, of course thanks to everyone else that has contributed, and continues to contribute to this forked project!

Questions?

• Check the FAQ page.
• Search the main documentation (click the menu button in the upper left corner).
• Search the issues to see if the question or problem has been brought up before, and hopefully resolved.
• If someone is available, ask your question in the #tablesorter IRC channel at freenode.net.
• Ask your question at Stackoverflow using a tablesorter tag.
• Please don't open a new issue unless it really is an issue with the plugin, or a feature request. Thanks!

Change Log

View the complete listing here.

Version 2.17.4 (7/4/2014)

• Docs

  • Copied the tablesorter initialized option from the event section into the configuration; renamed the event appropriately (tablesorter-initialized event)
  • Added notes about how to bind to "init" events; they should be bound before initializing tablesorter because in most cases, the events fire before the binding occurs.

• Core

  • Add $.tablesorter.hasWidget(table, 'widgetId') function. It returns a boolean value of true when the named widget is actively applied to the table.

• Filter

  • Add filter_searchFiltered option to allow disabling the search of already filtered rows.
  • The filter_initialized flag now gets set appropriately. Fixes issue #668.
  • Include any column filter in determination of searching already filtered rows. Fixes issue #669.
  • Add internal config.filteredRows variable. Provides a value of the number of currently filtered (visible) rows. Fixes issue #670.
  • Add internal config.totalRows variable. Provides a value of the total number of rows in the current table, not including info-tbody rows.
  • Fix change/search event being ignored for selects & filterFormatter extensions.
  • filterInit and filterEnd events now pass config as a parameter.

• Pager

  • Removed from beta status
  • Filtered rows now equals the total rows when ajaxProcessing returns an array. Fixes issue #667.
  • Update the config.filteredRows when using ajax to match the internal config.pager.filteredRows. See issue #670.
  • Widget only: ensure pagerComplete event fires on initialization.

• Resizable

  • Bind mousemove to document instead of table header. Makes resizable handle use consistent with other resizing libraries, as the user would expect. Fixes issue #665.
  • Add resizable_throttle option to allow throttling of the mousemove/resize event. Set this option to true or a number between 1 and 10 to add a throttling delay. Fixes issue #662.

• UITheme: non-existent columns no longer cause a js error. Fixes issue #672.

Version 2.17.3 (6/28/2014)

• Docs

  • Added bold notes to the output widget demo about setting the server content-disposition. Fixes issue #653.
  • Updated to latest Bootstrap (v3.2.0), jQuery UI (v1.11.0) and Cupertino theme.
  • Embedded gists within the documentation should now work properly.

• Core

  • Add "tablesorter-processing" class name to table during processing. Fixes issue #655.

• Filter

  • When filter_liveSearch is set to a number, it now searches when pressing enter. Fixes issue #654.
  • Modify change event so a select searches the table without requiring a carriage return. Fixes issue #650.

• Pager

  • Objects returned by ajaxProcessing can now include a filteredRows value. Fixes issue #649.
  • Fix internal use of selectorRemove option, to consistently extract out the class name from the selector string.
  • Previous & Next buttons now disable with zero filtered pages. Fixes issue #649.
  • Changed pager widget goto page selector option to gotoPage, because goto is a reserved word. Fixes issue #657.

• Scroller

  • Add scroller_upAfterSort option to prevent scrolling after clicking a checkbox. Fixes issue #660.

• Static Row

  • Static rows are now manipulated witin a detached tbody.
  • Updated demo to allow toggling of static rows using ctrl (or command on Mac) + click.

• Parsers

  • Added new Roman numeral parsers. There are three different parsers to cover three different use cases. Please see the roman numeral parser demo for details.

Version 2.17.2 (6/18/2014)

• Docs

  • Added more details about using pager ajax options.

• Core

  • The clearTableBody function now detaches rows instead of incorrectly detaching the tbody.

• Editable widget:

  • Corrected document option name typo. Fixes issue #635. Thanks shobute!

• Filter widget:

  • The selectSource option now correctly handles parsed values that return zero.
  • Filter formatter for jQuery UI datepicker now remembers the correct date.
  • Corrected filter events & prevent table manipulation if filters are empty on initialization. Fixes issue #645.

• Pager addon/widget:

  • Specifically target rows to prevent issues with ember scripts. Fixes issue #638.
  • Correctly detach and append jQuery rows provided by the ajaxProcessing function. Fixes issue #650.

• Print

  • jQuery requirement modified to support jQuery v1.2+ (previously it was v1.7+).
  • Popup now automatically closes with print dialog. Fixes issue #643.

• Scroller widget:

  • The thead width is now set in IE. Fixes issue #637.
  • Set column widths are now maintained, including Bootstrap. Fixes issues #634 & #380.
  • Change default scroll bar width to 18. Fixes issue #363.
  • Scroller now behaves properly with horizontal overflow scroll, column alignments, and hidden cells. Fixes issues #340 & #333.

• Themes

  • Bootstrap white unsorted icon now shows when the icon-white class is added. See issue #648.
  • Remove auto height settings from filter elements.

Version 2.17.1 (5/28/2014)

• Docs:

  • Add some missing examples & updated some version number comments for the last update
  • Reflow widget: Fix demo to use preset widths & css transitions instead of forcing users to manually resize the examples.
  • Output widget: add note about modifying the .htaccess file to enable downloading in both IE & Firefox.

• Core

  • Allow use of select & buttons within header cells. Previously only inputs were allowed. Fixes issue #625.
  • Add parser-false setting to prevent extracting & parsing of content from set columns. Fixes issue #629.

• Filter widget

  • Add a not-exact-match (!=) filter type (e.g. !"Bruce" or !Bruce= will show all rows that don't exactly match Bruce). See issue #628.

• Math widget

  • Values are now obtained from data-attributes first, then the actual cell content. This will allow making calculations with higher precision values. Fixes issue #624.

• Pager (addon & widget)

  • The ajaxProcessing function now includes the jqxhr parameter. Thanks JuarezTurrini! See pull #626
  • Update the custom controls example to properly work with the pager widget. Fixes issue #631.
  • Fix widgets sometimes not being applied after page change.

• Parser

  • input-select parser no longer binds to non-tablesorter tables. Fixes issue #633.

Version 2.17.0 (5/22/2014)

• Overall

  • You can now target a column using a jQuery selector targeting the header cell (e.g. a class name, id or column index, as before).
  • This works with the core options: headers, textExtraction.
  • This also works with the widgets: filter_formatter, filter_functions, filter_selectSource and the headers options for filter & resizable.
  • This change has not yet been implemented to the following options: textSorter, sortList, sortForce, sortAppend and numberSorter (will modify this option to target columns soon).
  • What won't work is if you try to target the header using a filtering selector that uses an index, e.g. "th:eq()", ":gt()", ":lt()", ":first", ":last", ":even" or ":odd", ":first-child", ":last-child", ":nth-child()", ":nth-last-child()", etc.

• Docs

  • Switch from using CDN versions of jQuery, jQuery UI, Bootstrap, Sugar and Select2 instead of using protocol-relative URLs because they are a pain to use locally.
  • Change style of "Update" tags to be slightly lighter than "New" tags.
  • Updated reflow widget demo with demo tables in a resizable iframe, so the browser window no longer needs to be resized.
  • Miscellaneous updates including correcting some version numbers, fixing links & other issues with the demos.

• Themes

  • Fix green theme to properly include a background with the css3 sticky headers widget.

• Core

  • Instead of using empty or clearing rows from the table, the rows are now detached. This also applies to the pager.

  • Added resetToLoadState method

    • Using this method will clear out any settings that have changed since the table was initialized (refreshes the entire table); so any sorting or modified widget options will be cleared.
    • However, it will not clear any values that were saved to storage. This method is basically like reloading the page.

  • Refer to columns in the headers and/or textExtraction option by class name, ID, or column index (as before).

    headers : {
        '.first-name' : { sorter: 'text' },
        '.disabled'   : { sorter: false }
    },
    textExtraction : {
        '.styled' : function(node, table, cellIndex) {
            return $(node).find('strong').text();
        }
    }
    

  • Added new "sorton" method values: "a" (ascending), "d" (descending), "n" (next), "s" (same) & "o" (opposite).

    // column 0: desc sort, column 1: asc sort
    $("#table1").trigger("sorton", [ [[0,"d"],[1,"a"]] ]);
    // column 0: next sort, column 1: opposite of column 0, column 2: same as column 0
    $("#table2").trigger("sorton", [ [[0,"n"],[1,"o"],[2,"s"]] ]);
    

    Please refer to the Sort table using a link outside the table demo for more details.

• ColumnSelector widget

  • Added a method to refresh the selected columns using $('table').trigger('refreshColumnSelector');.
  • Fix a js error when removing the widget.

• Filter widget

  • Fix child row filtering.

  • Fix filter-match searches.

  • Set filter parser or disable a filter in the headers option by referring to the header class name, ID, or column index (as before)

    headers : {
        '.first-name' : { filter : false },
        '.last-name'  : { filter : 'parsed' }
    }
    

  • Refer to filter_functions, filter_formatter and filter_selectSource columns by class name, ID, or column index (as before)

    filter_functions : {
        ".col-date" : {
            "< 2004" : function (e, n, f, i) {
                return n < Date.UTC(2004, 0, 1); // < Jan 1 2004
            },
            ...
        }
    },
    filter_formatter : {
        ".col-value" : function($cell, indx){
          return $.tablesorter.filterFormatter.uiSpinner( $cell, indx, {
            ...
          });
        }
    },
    filter_selectSource : {
        ".model-number" : [ "abc", "def", "ghi", "xyz" ]
    }
    

• Math widget

  • Now works properly with the pager. Fixes issue #621.

• Output widget

  • Add output_ignoreColumns option. Set the zero-based index of the columns to ignore in this array. Fixes issue #607
  • Add config parameter to output_callback function. NOTE: this parameter is added before the data parameter, so it may break any already existing custom callback functions.
  • Add output_duplicateSpans option. Setting this option to false adds blank entries instead of duplicating the colspan or rowspan content. Fixes issue #619.

• Pager (addon & widget)

  • Use detach instead of empty on tbody rows. This should save any data associated with the rows.
  • Fix pager updating not showing correct totals.

• Print widget

  • Add print_callback option allowing manipulation of the table & stylesheet before printing.
  • Corrected the print_columns settings comments.

• Resizable widget

  • Disable a resizable header within the headers option by referring to the column class name, ID, or column index (as before)

    headers : {
        '.first-name' : { resizable: false }
    }
    

  • Added note about using box-sizing & jQuery versions older than 1.8.

• Scroller widget

  • Filter widget works with this widget again. Fixes issue #620.