Tablesorter demo
All options included, as well as the uitheme widget
by Mottie
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mottie.github.com/tablesorter/css/blue/style.css">
<script src="http://mottie.github.com/tablesorter/js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script>
<script src="http://mottie.github.com/tablesorter/js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js"></script>
<button>Update</button><br>
<br>
<table class="tablesorter">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>AlphaNumeric</th>
<th>Numeric</th>
<th>Animals</th>
<th>Sites</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>abc 123</td><td>10</td><td>Koala</td><td>http://www.google.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc 1</td><td>234</td><td>Ox</td><td>http://www.yahoo.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc 9</td><td>10</td><td>Girafee</td><td>http://www.facebook.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>zyx 24</td><td>767</td><td>Bison</td><td>http://www.whitehouse.gov/</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc 11</td><td>3</td><td>Chimp</td><td>http://www.ucla.edu/</td></tr>
<tr><td>abc 2</td><td>56</td><td>Elephant</td><td>http://www.wikipedia.org/</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
CSS
/* This class is added to the span wrapping the
header text using the "onRenderHeader" option */
.roundedCorners {
border: #777 1px solid;
padding: 0 10px;
border-radius: 1em;
-moz-border-radius: 1em;
-webkit-border-radius: 1em;
}
JavaScript
$('table').tablesorter({
sortList: [[1,0]]
});
$('button').click(function() {
var tbl = '<tr><td>abc 9</td><td>155</td><td>Lion</td><td>http://www.nytimes.com/</td></tr>' +
'<tr><td>ABC 10</td><td>87</td><td>Zebra</td><td>http://www.google.com</td></tr>' +
'<tr><td>zyx 1</td><td>999</td><td>Koala</td><td>http://www.mit.edu/</td></tr>' +
'<tr><td>zyx 12</td><td>0</td><td>Llama</td><td>http://www.nasa.gov/</td></tr>';
var sorting = $('table')[0].config.sortList;
$('table').find('tbody').html(tbl);
$('table')
.trigger('update')
.trigger('sorton', [sorting]);
});