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.
• Multi-tbody sorting - see the options table on the main document page.
• Parsers for sorting text, alphanumeric text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats) & time. Add your own easily.
• 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+.
• Small code size.
• 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 2.14.5 (12/16/2013)

• Pager
  • Fix pager update when ajax returns no rows. Fixes issue #456.
  • Add pager processAjaxOnInit option. Fixes issue #424.
  • Fix & document inconsistentcies in pager triggered event parameters.
  • Disable pager arrows & show zero in display when totalPages is zero. Fixes issue #460.
  • Filter row is now included in sticky header while using the pager. Fixes issue #449.
  • Lots of thanks to Lynesth for sharing code fixes :)
• Fix stickyHeaders_attachTo no positioning correctly. See issue #295.

Version 2.14.4 (12/14/2013)

• Add Bootstrap 2 theme. Thanks to themilkman.
• The addRows method now works with an empty table. Fixes issue #450.
• Sticky headers widget
  • Add stickyHeaders_attachTo option. Fixes issues #295 & #314.
  • Add cssStickyHeaders_attachTo option. Fixes issue #453.
  • Added padding to wrapper in demo so Chrome doesn't add a horizontal scroll bar
• Filter widget
  • Fix forced search to work again (i.e. $('table').trigger('search', false);)
  • Fix child row filtering - see this Stackoverflow question
• Pager
  • The pager will update properly when ajax returns no rows. Fixes issue #456
  • Filter searches will now reset pager to the first page. Fixes issue #456
  • The pager will now properly count filtered rows when including/excluding child rows. Fixes this Stackoverflow question.
  • The table cache will once again update after an ajax call. Fixes issues #436 & #437.

Version 2.14.3 (12/2/2013)

• Core
  • Refreshing widgets now only applies to previously installed widgets. Fixes issue #442.
• Pager
  • Ajax arrays now accept html instead of cell contents, e.g. <td class="red">- 10</td>. Thanks @christhomas; fixes issue #434.
  • Add ajax counter to only allow the most recent request to process. Thanks @christhomas; fixes issue #443.
  • When filtering rows, the output will now show zeros for row & page counts instead of empty strings.
  • No more fixedHeight pager errors. Thanks @hempel; fixes issue #448.
• Filter widget
  • Exact filter matches now properly override other queries. Fixes issue #441.
  • Reverse range 20 - 10 work properly, again. See issue #441.
  • Updated docs to show the filter precendence. See footnote (2) under Notes.
• Sticky Headers widget
  • Now uses the filter widget bindSearch function allowing live search, delayed searching and escape to cancel on sticky header filters.
  • Thanks to @haraldkrischner for his help!
  • Fixes issues #439 & #440.
• CSS Sticky Headers widget (beta)
  • Now works properly in IE9+.
  • Thanks @gakreol
  • Fixes issue #447.
• Added Semantic version sorting demo
  • See the demo here.
  • This demo does not use a custom parser nor widget, it requires a modified semver.js for node file to sort the column using the textSorter option.
  • The modified semver-mod.js file is contained within the new "extras" folder (tablesorter/js/extras) along with the original unmodified semver.js file.
  • Extra code is also included to highlight invalid semantic versions within the table.
  • Fixes issue #395.
• Sorry I didn't get around to finding solutions for some of the other issues that I promised to have done this patch :(

Version 2.14.2 (11/25/2013)

• Removed Bootstrap filter cell background color. Fixes issue #425.
• Added css sticky header widget (beta)
  • This widget uses css3 transforms to make the table header sticky. It's a bit jumpy in Chrome, but works well in other tested browsers.
  • This widget doesn't appear to work in IE10, but it should... it will not work in IE8 and older.
  • See issue #429 for more information.
• Stop repeat filter widget searches. Fixes issue #431.
• Prevent filter error. Fixes issue #432.
• Merged in and reverted issue #433.
• Editable widget
  • Updated docs with missing editable_editComplete callback event name option.
  • Modified the editable_columns option to allow setting a column range string, e.g. "2-4" instead of creating an array ([2,3,4]).
  • Fixes issue #435.
• Grouping widget
  • Invalid group class now fails silently.
  • Fixes issue #438.

Version 2.14.1 (11/22/2013)

• Filter widget
  • External inputs bound using the filter bindSearch function now clear on the "filterReset" event.
  • Replace Array.indexOf() due to IE8.
• Pager (plugin & widget)
  • Replace Array.indexOf() due to IE8. Fixes issue #388.
• Themes
  • Non-sortables headers now show the default cursor
  • Fix Dropbox theme to work properly within the sticky header demo
  • Fix Ice theme to include a top border in the sticky header demo
  • Tweaked sticky header widget to better align columns in Firefox & adjust caption to hide border edges.
  • See the sticky header demo to see these changes.
  • Fixes #407.
• Documentation
  • Update FAQ page to include information on the zebra widget not always working.
  • Update demos to use Bootstrap 3.0.2.
  • Add search instructions to the wiki documentation pages.
  • Add link to FAQ & search instructions on the main documenation page.
• Add associated core version number to pager addon & widget, main widget file and filter formatter file.

Version 2.14.0 (11/19/2013)

Core

• Changed sorting algorithms:
  • Due to problems with sorting multiple columns improperly sorting algorithms again include code to sort empty cells.
  • Internal sorting again has separate ascending and descending functions; but the previous $.tablesorter.sortNatural (ascending only), $.tablesorter.sortNumeric (ascending only) and $.tablesorter.sortText (ascending only) functions are still available.
  • Custom text & numeric sort functions, added via textSorter and numberSorter options now require you to return the sort in the correct direction.
  • Custom sort functions no longer have empty cells automatically handled for you.
  • Fixes issue #419.
• Added sortStable option which when true will sort exactly equal items by placing them in their original unsorted order (or, perform a stable sort).
• Removed double icon class names.
• Added tabIndex option
  • When true, a tabindex is added to the headers for keyboard accessibility; this was previously always applied
  • When false, table headers will not be included when tabbing through the page
  • Fulfills issue #415.

Filter widget

• Setting a filter to build a select no longer causes an error. Fixes issue #421.
• Added filter_saveFilters option
  • When true, this option saves the current filters using the storage utility (local storage with cookie fallback).
  • This option is set to false by default.
  • See issue #388.
• Allow multiple external filter inputs
  • The $.tablesorter.filter.bindSearch( $table, $external ) function now allows binding searches using the built-in functioning.
  • The bind search function will unbind any previously bound keyup and search event listeners on the $external elements.
  • External inputs must not have a tablesorter-filter class to distinguish them from internal filters.
  • If not using the filter_anyMatch option, external filters can be set to target specific columns by including a data-column attribute.
  • See the new filter external inputs demo.
• Filter reset button clicks will again trigger a filterReset event. Fixes issue #423.

Grouping widget

• Merged in fix for grouping widget + filter widget + child row widget.
  • Updated demo with multi-child column styling.
  • Thanks Xamamule in pull #414!
  • This also fixes issue #422.
• Renamed variables & cleanup
• Added group_dateString function to format the date string for group-date header class name.

Zebra widget

• Now skips removable rows added by other widgets, more specifically, it skips rows with a remove-me class name (set by the selectorRemove option).

Docs updates

• Added a side menu with search to the main document page.
  • The main documentation page now uses Bootstrap for some styles.
  • Search includes a count with clear search, previous result and next result buttons.
  • Search options included to find letters or whole words only, and choose if the search is case sensitive, or not.
  • The advantage of this search over the browser's built-in search (Ctrl-F) is that this search will find text within the hidden content
  • Indexing of the search results may not always be in order, i.e. "10/10" may not always be the lowest result on the page due to nested elements.
  • Sorry, IE7 and older users, the search works but but is really slow. And the side menu styling leaves much to be desired (using Bootstrap).
• jQuery UI theme selector updates. See issue #407.
• Updated typos & css in various demos
• Added Utility options section for options used by parsers, storage utility and pager ajax data.
• Added removed options section.
  • This applies to pager options available in the original version of tablesorter which are no longer supported.
  • Fixes issue #416.
• Added kbd styling for better visualization of keyboard keys.

Other

• Renamed variables within the pager custom control demo (still in beta)
• Renamed variables within default widgets file
  • Utilities: storage, addHeaderResizeEvent,, resizableReset
  • Widgets: columns, resizable, stickyHeaders, uitheme, saveSort
• Updated parser-date-two-digit-year.js to allow changing the date range
  • Set a different date range by adding a value to table.config.dateRange.
  • Instructions added to main documents under utility options
• Storage utility ($.tablesorter.storage) now accepts a jQuery object as well as a DOM object of the table
  • $.tablesorter.storage( $('#mytable'), 'myvariable', 'YAY' );, or
  • $.tablesorter.storage( $('#mytable')[0], 'myvariable', 'YAY' );