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 2.16.3 (4/30/2014)

• Docs:

  • Clean up of docs for the following widgets:
    • Column selector widget
    • Editable widget
    • Grouping widget
    • Math widget
    • Select2 filterFormatter
  • Update textSorter option demo - the sorting the Icelandic alphabet using sugar's array sort now works properly.

• Core:

  • Fix headers option indexing of cells in multiple header rows
    • Setting an index in the multiple row header will now correctly set the column parser.
    • See this demo - the 10th cell (zero-based index) in the header has the sorter set to "month".
  • Set processing icon to only show after 500ms, it will not show at all if the sort ends before then.
  • Check for jQuery's closest function and use it, or fall back to equivalent code (maintaining support for jQuery 1.2.6+). Fixes issue #597.
  • Remove widget init delay added in v2.16.1-beta.

• Filter:

  • Remove old cached indexing:
    • It was causing already filtered rows to return an incorrect cached row value.
    • Fixes issue #600 & see this Stackoverflow question.
  • Update check for "filter-parsed" class, because the getData function will only return the first class name starting with "filter-".
  • Filter select updates:
    • Add filter-select-nosort header class name to prevent select option sorting.
    • Filter select option sort now uses the assigned column parser to parse & sort the options.
    • Filter select options are now sorted using the textSorter function, if set, and if not set, it falls back to natural sorting.
    • Fixes issue #599.
    • Add note to ensure textSorter receives strings, or a javascript error occurs.
  • Select2 filterFormatter now allows setting of initial settings. Fixes issue #598.

• Sticky Headers

  • Add support for filter_hideFilters set to true. See this Stackoverflow question.

Version 2.16.2 (4/27/2014)

• Docs:
  • Added basic setup for output widget.
  • Show various updates.
  • Update readme with more resources.
• Core:
  • update addRows method will now accept a string or jQuery object.
  • Sort direction is now counted correctly.
  • Add "emptyMin" & "emptyMax" setting to emptyTo option. Fixes issue #577.
  • Add internal config.$extraHeaders variable.
• Filter widget:
  • Search already filtered rows when not exactly matching content. Fixes issue #593.
  • Ensure filter_functions option is not null. Fixes issue #593.
  • Filter formatter: set datepicker to null. Fixes issue #512.
• Math widget: add data-math-mask for each cell.
• StickyHeaders
  • Check for filters before trying to set focus. Fixes issue #594.
  • Add stickyHeaders_filteredToTop option. Fixes issue #570.
• Input select parser: don't update columns with both sorter & filter disabled. See issue #570.

Version 2.16.1 (4/24/2014)

• Core:
  • Fixed an issue where ajax loaded data would cause a javascript error because of improper ignoring of data.
  • Ajax loaded data will now be parsed and cached - so stuff like the grouping widget will work properly.

Version 2.16.0 (4/23/2014)

• Docs

  • Add notice to readme about upgrading to v2.16.
  • Add question section to readme about where to ask questions, including the new IRC channel.
  • Update jQuery UI accordion code to reapply widgets to tables within the section, when open.

• Build widget

  • Now works with HTML in the data
  • Add zebra widget to demos.

• Core

  • Check more than the first tbody when detecting parsers. Fixes issue #589.
  • Apply widgets on table initialization after a short delay.

• Filter widget:

  • Fix search already filtered rows
  • Fix filteredRows count & cleanup.
  • SetFilters now behaves more like a triggered search. Fixes issue #588.
  • Filterformatter - Fix both datepicker scripts to work properly with non-U.S. formats. Fixes issue #587.

• Pager: Now stays on the same page after updating. Fixes issue #590.

• Testing: Add some preliminary tests for the filter widget.

Version 2.16.1-beta (4/22/2014)

• Docs:
  • Add note about using buttons in forms (include type="button"). Fixes issue #543.
  • Add example link to select2 demo for the filter_selectSource entry.
• Filter widget: setFilters now supports passing it a jQuery table object
• Static Row widget
  • Add more inline comments
  • Fix issue with not repositioning static row properly within mutliple tbodies.

Version 2.16.0-beta (4/20/2014)

• Doc & testing updates

  • More version numbers added - when certain variable & functions were added or last updated.
  • Update to use Bootstrap 3.1.1.
  • Update to the latest testing files.
  • Reorganize example section & cleanup.
  • Fix demos that include togglable parsed data.
  • Fix miscellaneous typos.

• Core

  • Make computeColumnIndex function public (get details).
  • Move cache rows into the normalized data
    • This is a big change, as the cache rows no longer exist and did break several widgets.
    • This change allows for the Filter widget to better work with cached data (pager with removeRows set to true) & makes the sort tbodies widget possible.
    • Updated core tests.
  • Update textExtraction option
    • Default option is now "basic" and checks for a data-attribute (set by by the new textAttribute option).
    • Set this option to any string (besides an empty string) to revert back to the original method; this may be necessary in older versions of IE due to initialization speed issues.
    • Fixes issue #154
  • Add textAttribute option
    • It contains the data-attribute name which contains alternative table cell text.
    • This only applies to tbody table cells.
  • Add sortReset method callback (e.g. $("table").trigger("sortReset", [callback]);)
  • Update applyWidgets method to prevent being called numerous consecutive times.
  • Destroy method now clears the table cache & pager rows copy

• Parsers (extract date parsers)

  • "extractUSLongDate" - this parser finds a US long date anywhere in a table cell (demo)
  • "extractMMDDYYYY" - this parser extracts dates in MMDDYYYY format (demo)
  • "extractDDMMYYYY" - this parser extracts dates in DDMMYYYY format (demo)
  • "extractYYYYMMDD" - this parser extracts dates in MMDDYYYY format (demo)

• Filter widget

  • Updated to use the new modified internal cache format.
    • Now usable with the pager with the removeRows option set to true.
    • Fixes issue #515.
  • Add filter_placeholder global settings. Fixes issue #582.
  • Add filter_selectSource option.
    • Allows add filter select options from an alternate source (e.g. ajax), or customizing options from the set column contents.
    • Fixes issue #328.
  • Include th's in the tbody.
  • Fix build select tbody indexing.
  • Filter reset (filter_reset) now accepts a jQuery object.

• Filter formatter

  • Add to & from date placeholders to date range. Fixes issue #582.
  • Fix saved Datepicker range values. Fixes issue #512.
  • Add select2 filter formatter code. May fix issue #534 - see demo

• Math widget

  • New math widget demo Replaces the previous alpha "Column sum widget" demo.
  • This widget adds basic math capabilities; by default the following functions are available: count, sum, max, min, mean, median, mode, range, variance (sample & population), standard deviation (sample & population).
  • Custom math functions can be added
  • Data from cells is gathered from the row, cells "above" the target cell, column, or the entire table.
  • More details are provided on the demo page.
  • Fixes issue #136.

• Output widget

  • This widget will output the table data as any of the following data formats:
    • Any separator: comma (csv), tabs (tsv), spaces, etc
    • Javascript array
    • JSON
  • Output the entire table, filtered or visible rows.
  • Works with the filter & pager widgets.
  • See this demo for more details.

• Pager

  • The ajaxObject success function will no longer be called twice on initialization. Fixes issue #540.
  • Update to work with the filter widget & the modified row cache. Fixes issue #515.
  • Destroy method now clears the table cache & pager rows copy.
  • Add pageReset option - pager resets to set page after filtering the table. Fixes issue #565.

• Reflow & Reflow2 widget

  • These widgets change the layout of the table when a set browser width breakpoint is reached.
  • Each tbody cell will display the header cell text when the table reflows.
  • See this demo.
  • Fixes issue #165.

• Scroller widget

  • Update to work properly with the filter widget. Fixes issues #584 & #370.
  • Update method to bind table headers.
  • Added remove function so this widget now works properly with the "updateAll" method.

• Static Row widget

  • Modified from the Tablesorter-Static-Row-Plugin by ascii-soup.
  • This widget works with multiple tbodies (but not information only tbodies).
  • Dynamically set & update the static row.
  • For more details see the demo.
  • Fixes issues #120 & #472.

• StickyHeaders widget - the cloned table (sticky part) tbody & tfoot are now removed instead of hidden.

Version 2.15.14 (4/10/2014)

• Modified bower.json to allow "read-components" compatibility. See PR #573
• Corrected docs:
  • Filter-external doc error. Fixes issue #571
  • Added pager ajaxProcessing documentation about extra values available for the output. Fixes issue #576.
  • Grouping widget demo update (now uses collapsible table for options)
• Core: Destroy method update

  • When including a false parameter with the destroy method, class names will be left intact as before. But this now includes the reapplying of the uitheme and zebra widgets.

    $("table").trigger("destroy", [false]);
    

  • This change will maintain the table's appearance.

  • See this Stackoverflow question for why this change was made.

• Grouping widget: group name now saves after callback. Fixes issue #514.
• Pager processAjaxOnInit now works with jQuery objects. Fixes issue #572.
• Filter widget: getFilters will not cause a js error when it targets a non-tablesorter table.

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