Tablesorter demo
All options included, as well as the uitheme widget
by Mottie
HTML
<script src="http://mottie.github.com/tablesorter/js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mottie.github.com/tablesorter/css/blue/style.css">
<select>
<option value="-">Choose a column</option>
<option value="0">Alphabetic</option>
<option value="1">Numeric</option>
<option value="2">Animals</option>
<option value="3">Sites</option>
</select>
<table class="tablesorter">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Alphabetic</th>
<th>Numeric</th>
<th>Animals</th>
<th>Sites</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>abc</td><td>10</td><td>Koala</td><td>http://www.google.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc</td><td>234</td><td>Ox</td><td>http://www.yahoo.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc</td><td>10</td><td>Girafee</td><td>http://www.facebook.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>zyx</td><td>767</td><td>Bison</td><td>http://www.whitehouse.gov/</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc</td><td>3</td><td>Chimp</td><td>http://www.ucla.edu/</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc</td><td>56</td><td>Elephant</td><td>http://www.wikipedia.org/</td></tr>
<tr><td>abcd</td><td>155</td><td>Lion</td><td>http://www.nytimes.com/</td></tr>
<tr><td>ABCD</td><td>87</td><td>Zebra</td><td>http://www.google.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>zyx</td><td>999</td><td>Koala</td><td>http://www.mit.edu/</td></tr>
<tr><td>zyxa</td><td>0</td><td>Llama</td><td>http://www.nasa.gov/</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
JavaScript
$('table').tablesorter();
$('select').change(function(){
var column = parseInt($(this).val(), 10),
direction = 1, // 0 = descending, 1 = ascending
sort = [[ column, direction ]];
if (column >= 0) {
$('table').trigger("sorton", [sort]);
}
});