Comments on: TableSorter Add-ons (plus jQuery)

By: brian

brian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:59:18 +0000

@Thomas – I can’t help with tablefilter but I can tell you that TableSorter, the one by Christian Bach, is fully capable of sorting on European dates. Try it instead!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:27:02 +0000

With tablefilter http://ideamill.synaptrixgroup.com/
I’m not able to sort columns with european dates (dd/mm/yyyy)

I need help!!!

Thanks

By: Orange is my favorite color » Blog Archive » TableSorter 2.0

Orange is my favorite color » Blog Archive » TableSorter 2.0 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:39:47 +0000

[...] TableSorter 2.0. After my previous post on TableSorter and my comments about the documentation, plugin author Christian Bach contacted me [...]

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:38:40 +0000

Sounds like you’re all set Josh. You may also want to take a peak at http://ideamill.synaptrixgroup.com/jquery/tablefilter/tabletest.htm which is another table filtering/sorting plugin.

By: Josh Nathanson

Josh Nathanson — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:10:59 +0000

Just an add-on, looking at my comment, it’s not clear when I state that the documentation is lacking, that I’m referring only to the tableSorter plugin, and not jQuery as a whole. The documentation for jQuery is for the most part excellent.

Also, I’m a fellow ColdFusion user. Viva la CF/jQ!

– Josh

By: Josh Nathanson

Josh Nathanson — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:06:58 +0000

I also found the docs extremely lacking, and so when I wanted to sort a column that had additional html structure (a table) within each cell, I had to dig through the source code to figure out how to do it.

There is a parameter called textExtractionCustom that you need to leverage. It takes a function as its value. tableSorter will pass to this function a jquery object containing the currently processing table cell. So, you apply your function to the passed in cell to extract the text that will be sorted. Below is an example of how I used it.

// ‘textextr’ is my function to extract the data
$(“#maintable”).tableSorter({
textExtractionCustom : textextr
});

// the function to extract the sortable text
// the contents of the function will differ
// based on your extraction needs
textextr = function(o) {
return $(“.edit:eq(0)”,o).text();
}

Hope this helps somebody!

– Josh

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:05:20 +0000

My name is Rey Bango and I’m part of the jQuery project team. I’m also very savvy in CF having used it since 3.5x and being a former member of Team Allaire. I’ll check out your post in a little while as I’m currently tied up and try to help you.

PS: I love pollo asado, carne asada y carnitas!