Table Sorter based on alpha numeric

by Helmut Granda

HTML

<script src="http://mottie.github.io/tablesorter/js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mottie.github.io/tablesorter/css/theme.blue.css">
<table class="tablesorter">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>First Name (desc)</th>
      <th>Last Name (asc)</th>
      <th class="sortInitialOrder-desc">Age (desc)</th>
      <th>Total (asc)</th>
      <th data-sortinitialorder="desc">Discount (desc)</th> <!-- equivalent to data-sortInitialOrder="desc" or data-sort-initialorder="desc" -->
      <th>Date (asc)</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Peter</td>
      <td>1 Parker</td>
      <td>28</td>
      <td>$9.99</td>
      <td>20%</td>
      <td>Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>John</td>
      <td>Hood</td>
      <td>33</td>
      <td>$19.99</td>
      <td>25%</td>
      <td>Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Clark</td>
      <td>2 Kent</td>
      <td>18</td>
      <td>$15.89</td>
      <td>44%</td>
      <td>Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Bruce</td>
      <td>3 Almighty</td>
      <td>45</td>
      <td>$153.19</td>
      <td>44%</td>
      <td>Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Bruce</td>
      <td>Evans</td>
      <td>22</td>
      <td>$13.19</td>
      <td>11%</td>
      <td>Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

JavaScript

$(function(){
  $("table").tablesorter({
    theme : 'blue',

    // default sortInitialOrder setting
    sortInitialOrder: "asc",

    // pass the headers argument and passing a object
    headers: {
      // set initial sort order by column, this headers option setting overrides the sortInitialOrder option
      0: { sortInitialOrder: 'desc' }
    }

  });
});