tablesorter/README.md

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 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!

Change Log

View the complete listing here.

Version 2.15.13 (4/3/2014)

• Core:
  • Fix widgets not being applied after an update.
  • Ignore child row class name if it is the first table row
• Filter widget ignores info tbodies again. Fixes issue #568
• Docs: show resizable widget update
• Bootstrap theme:
  • Fix zebra highlighting for child rows
  • Thanks to ilyai - PR #567

Version 2.15.12 (3/31/2014)

• Replaced references to cell.cellIndex with $(cell).index()
  • Prevents an error in IE8
  • Thanks sylvain-hamel!
  • Fixed merge issues, then modified code to minize use of this indexing
  • Cell column property has correct value again.
  • Fixes issue #554
• Fix docs so nested accordions open with hash.
• Child row updates
  • Added tablesorter-hasChildRow class name to all parents of child rows.
  • Added .tablesorter .filtered { display: none; } to every included theme; needed to properly hide child rows
  • Fixed pager so that if the last pager row has any child rows, they are now included. Fixes part of issue #396.
  • Fixes issue #556.
• Add resizable_widths option
  • Set the default & reset header widths using this option
  • Fixes issue #555.
• I apologize for the last version error... it is set to 2.5.11 instead of 2.15.11 in the git repo tag. It is correct everywhere else.

Version 2.15.11 (3/18/2014)

• Updated Bootstrap to v3.1.1
• Check if cell has parser to catch undefined error. Fixes issue #546. Thanks antila!
• Column count is now correct with nested tables (with tfoot). Fixes issue #547.
• Fix table reset on pagination change. Fixes issue #548. Thanks evanboho!

Version 2.15.10 (3/13/2014)

• Fix numberSorter option causing a javascript error & added test.

Version 2.15.9 (3/12/2014)

• jQuery UI Filter formatter scripts work again (broken since adding unique namespaces in v2.15.7).