tablesorter (FORK) 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. This forked version adds lots of new enhancements including: alphanumeric sorting, pager callback functons, multiple widgets providing column styling, ui theme application, sticky headers, column filters and resizer, as well as extended documentation with a lot more demos.

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.

Download

• Get all files
• Use bower: bower install jquery.tablesorter
• Use node.js: npm install tablesorter
• CDNJS: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/jquery.tablesorter

Related Projects

• Plugin for Rails. Maintained by themilkman.
• Bootsole (OOP templating engine using tablesorter) by alexweissman.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please...

1. Fork.
2. Make changes in a branch & add unit tests.
3. Run grunt test (if qunit fails, run it again - it's fickle).
4. Create a pull request.

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.
• Thanks to prijutme4ty for numerous contributions!
• 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!

Recent Changes

View the complete change log here.

Version 2.22.4 (7/28/2015)

• Overall
  • update debug logging. console is now called directly & includes grouping, tables, warning & errors.
• Core
  • Replace tbody placeholder use of a <span> with a <colgroup>. Attempt to resolve IE error reported in issue #938.
  • Fix $.tablesorter.hasWidget error introduced when fixing jscs issues.
  • Fix $.tablesorter.isProcessing error introduced when fixing jscs issues.
  • Update isValueInArray function to prevent js errors with invalid input.
• Docs
  • Remove duplicate section in math widget docs.
  • Add resizable widget note about leaving widthFixed set to false. See issue #958.
  • Update to use jQuery v1.11.3.
  • Change deprecated window load function.
  • Improve two-digit year parser demo.
  • Minor updates.
• Filter
  • Prevent invalid RegExp errors which occur while typing in an incomplete query.
• Math
  • Ignored rows are now properly ignored in columns. Fixes issue #976.
• Output
  • Add output_formatContent callback - see Stackoverflow.
  • Make compatible with the scroller widget when it hides columns. See pull #970, thanks VictorT83!
• Pager
  • Bind using unique event namespace. See issue #961.
• Scroller
  • Prevent error on destroy when not applied. See issue #965.
  • Fix js error in old IE.
  • Delay resize after updateAll.
  • Include sortEnd in fixed column updates. See issue #977.
• Sort2Hash
  • This widget updates the location hash based on the table sort, and sets the table sort on initialization. demo.
  • A user can share a link with others and have the table in the same sorted order.
  • The hash can be set to use header text and any text to indicate an ascending or descending sort.
  • Add text & saveSort override options. Fixes issue #962.
  • Other minor revisions.
• Parsers
  • Checkbox in multiple columns now toggles the row class correctly.
• Grunt build: Add jscs checking & fix reported style issues.
• Testing
  • Update QUnit to 1.18.0.
  • Add removeWidget test.
  • Add isValueInArray tests.
  • Add isProcessing tests.
• Extras - dropping support for quicksearch plugin.

Version 2.22.3 (6/30/2015)

• Scroller: fix javascript error scroller_$fixedColumns is undefined.

Version 2.22.2 (6/30/2015)

• Core
  • Only use preventDefault in specific jQuery versions (v1.3.2 & older). Fixes issue #911.
  • The "updateCache" method now accepts a tbody object.
  • Make getParsedText a public function.
  • Allow empty string in textExtraction data-attribute. Fixes issue #954.
• Docs
  • Update trigger sort method documentation.
  • Update information about cssIgnoreRow. See issue #911.
  • Add requirement to include .filter { display: none } in custom themes.
  • Improve Bootstrap example in column selector docs. See pull #935, thanks @Herst!
  • Clean up & corrections:
    • Code examples in math & editing demos.
    • Corrected comments in "Skip the parsing of column content" demo.
    • Fix HTML validation issues.
  • Add contributing.md link to JSCS formatting file by @Herst.
  • Update to Bootstrap v3.3.5.
• Parsers
  • Checkbox: add checkbox parser class name option (config.checkboxClass).
  • Metric: Support metric base unit case insensitivity.
• Editable
  • Allow Shift+Enter to create a new line (even with editable_enterToAccept set as true).
  • Update cache without requiring a hover over the thead; cache order now properly maintained on touch devices.
• Filter
  • Target last used filter properly. See issue #920.
  • filter_selectSource now ignores parsers, if none are set (empty or ajax tables). See issue #934.
  • Add support for nesting of "AND" & "OR" searches. Fixes issues #891 & #918.
  • Filter row remains visible after focused when filter_hideFilters is set.
  • Remove trailing comma in pull #948, thanks @Herst!
• Output
  • Allow empty string data-attributes. See issue #923.
  • output_saveRows now accepts jQuery filter selectors. See issue #923.
  • Fix hiddenColumns option causing an empty output. Fixes issue #923.
  • Prevent javascript error when no row data is passed. See issue #923.
  • Remove tfoot clone, instead concat data to the end.
  • Fix colspans and hidden columns.
  • Stop outputTable method propagation. Fixes issue #944.
• Pager
  • Make hasWidget think the pager addon is a widget.
  • Prevent adding a row if ajax returned JSON totalrows is zero. See Stackoverflow.
• RepeatHeaders
  • use selectorRemove option setting.
• Resizable
  • Replace window resize trigger. See issue #912.
  • Resizing now works with overflow wrapped tables. Fixes issue #953.
• Scroller
  • Fix added stylesheet error using "," instead of ";".
  • Remove colgroup & hidden elements in fixed columns.
  • Fix slow fixed column scrolling in Firefox. See issue #135.
  • Multiple tbody fix. See issues #906 & #913.
  • Limit horizontal scrollbar to scrolling section.
  • Removed widthFixed requirement.
  • Update RTL support.
  • Fix column alignment. Fixes issue #913.
  • Fix filter return zero to few rows.
  • Reduce init lag & correct no fixed column tbody width. See issue #906.
  • Fix mousewheel scrolling on fixed columns.
  • Cleanup & old IE fix.
  • Fix column alignment issues #940, #937, #931 & #927.
  • Throttle IE scrolling. Partially fixes issue #928.
  • Save scroll positioning. Fixes issues #926 & #932.
  • Integrate with:
    • pager. Fixes issue #884.
    • columnSelector. Fixes issue #905.
• SortTbodies (beta)
  • Add new widget to allow the sorting of tbodies based on a primary row.
  • Fixes pull #195 & issue #833.
  • Documentation & demo page added: http://mottie.github.io/tablesorter/docs/example-widget-sort-tbodies.html
• StickyHeaders
  • Replace window resize trigger. See issue #912.
  • Fix javascript error. See issue #920.
• Zebra
  • Target non-info block tbodies in extra tables.
• Grunt
  • Update grunt modules.
  • Remove moot "version" property from bower.json. See pull #941, thanks @kkirsche!
  • Don't update bower.json in Gruntfile.js.
  • Check for old IE issue in pull #949, thanks @Herst!