Originally posted by Jeremy Satterfield in his [blog][1], [jQuery plugins][2] and on [Snipplr][3]. This fork by [Mottie][4].

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.

###Features (Demo)

• Multi-column sorting.
• 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 1.2.3+

###Documentation

Included all original document pages. Also check out my blog post on undocumented options which I will add to the document pages when I get around to it.

###Licensing

• Copyright (c) 2007 Christian Bach
• Main Examples and docs at: http://tablesorter.com
• Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:

###Change Log

Version 2.0.6 (2011-06-22)

• Forked original files and docs from tablesorter.com to GitHub.
• Replaced alphabetical sort with an alphanumeric sort
• This "slower" sort can be disabled by setting the sortLocaleCompare option to true
• The sortLocaleCompare option's default was changed to false.
• Added a very basic demo.
• Added tableClass option
• The value is "tablesorter" by default and should no longer be required in the default markup.
• This class is applied to the table in the script and should match the css styling.
• Each header cell now has its content wrapped with a span.
• This allows applying the direction icon to the span instead of the entire cell.
• Although, this might just be extra markup with the advent of multiple background images and gradient backgrounds available in CSS3.
• Reformatted the code to make jSLint "happier".

Version 2.0.5b (?)

• General
• Added "cssChildRow" option - attach a child row to its parent.
• Added "sortLocaleCompare" to use the native String.localeCampare method during text sort.
• Added "onRenderHeader" function that is called when classes are added to the header cells.
• Added "selectorHeaders" option to target the the header cells.
• Changed multisort function

Version 2.0.3 (2008-03-17)

• Bug fixes - Missing semicolon, broke the minified version.

Version 2.0.2 (2008-03-14)

• General

• Added support for the new metadata plugin.

• Added support for jQuery 1.2.3.

• Added support for decimal numbers and negative and positive digits.

• Updated documenation and website with new examples.

• Removed packed version.

• Bug fixes

• Sort force (Thanks to David Lynch).

Version 2.0.1 (2007-09-17)

• General

• Removed the need for Dimensions plugin when using the pagnation plugin thanks to offset being included in the jQuery 1.2 core.

• Added support for jQuery 1.2.

• Added new Minified version of tablesorter.

• Updated documenation and website with new examples.

• Bug fixes

• If row values are identical the original order is kept (Thanks to David hull).

• If thead includes a table $('tbody:first', table) breaks (Thanks to David Hull).

• Speed improvements:

• appendToTable, setting innerHTML to "" before appending new content to table body.

• zebra widget. (Thanks to James Dempster).