jquery.tablesort
Simple jQuery plugin for sorting table rows
Usage
Include the plugin
<script src="/path/to/jquery.tablesort.js"></script>Add class="sortable" to any sortable columns along with a data-sorttype attribute if you want it to sort by something other than string.
<table> <thead> <tr> <th>not sortable</th> <th class="sortable" data-sorttype="number">number</th> <th class="sortable">string</th> <th class="sortable" data-sorttype="date">date</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>this</td> <td>1</td> <td>a</td> <td>2/3/2015</td> </tr> <tr> <td>column is</td> <td>2</td> <td>c</td> <td>3/4/15</td> </tr> <tr> <td>not sortable</td> <td>3</td> <td>b</td> <td>2015-01-01</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>Call the plugin on the table.
$("table").tablesort();More Options
Create custom sorttype.
create a custom sorttype to sort date range by first date
| date range |
|5/17/15 - 5/23/15| |5/10/15 - 5/16/15| |5/03/15 - 5/09/15| |4/26/15 - 5/02/15| |4/19/15 - 5/25/15|
<th class="sortable" data-sorttype="date-range">date range</th>$("table").tablesort({ sorttypes: { "date-range": function (a, b) { var am = a.match(/^\d+\/\d+\/\d+/); var bm = b.match(/^\d+\/\d+\/\d+/); if (am === null || bm === null) { return 0; } var av = new Date(am[0]); var bv = new Date(bm[0]); if (av < bv) { return -1; } else if (av > bv) { return 1; } else { return 0; } } } });
