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 2.17.5 (7/17/2014)

• Core

  • Update config.totalRows variable before initialization. Fixes issue #670.
  • Add config.table variable; useful for functions that only pass the config.
  • Ensure widget init functions are only called once; and set indicator for all widgets, not just ones with options (for hasWidget).

• Docs

  • Add custom filter widget search types demo.
  • Add imgAttr parser "utility option" instructions.

• Filter

  • Force cache build on initial search when delayInit is true. Fixes issue #678.
  • Make config.filteredRows count available within filterInit event. Fixes issue #670.
  • Selects now obtain parsed data when it is set for a particular column. Fixes issue #684.
  • Ignore change event if input value hasn't changed, otherwise it interferes with other events within the table. Fixes issue #685.
  • Ensure search query is parsed for both specific filter types and non-filter type searches, if the column is set to use parsed data.
  • Filter initialization ("filterInit") event is now delayed to prevent filterStart & filterEnd event spamming. Fixes issue #668.
  • Filter formatter functions are now required to call a function after initialization to delay "filterInit" event. Fixes issue #668.

• Output

  • Update download method which allows downloading files without modifying the server htaccess. Fixes issue #681.

• Pager

  • Initialize without building cache when delayInit is true. Fixes issue #678.

• Parsers

  • Update input/select element binding
  • Add image alt parser; set config.imgAttr with attribute to target (default is "alt").
  • Add select-text parser which grabs the currently selected option text instead of the select value.

• Resizable

  • Remove unused grip code

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.