Tablesorter

tablesorter (FORK) is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell. This forked version adds lots of new enhancements including: alphanumeric sorting, pager callback functons, multiple widgets providing column styling, ui theme application, sticky headers, column filters and resizer, as well as extended documentation with a lot more demos.

Notice!

• Because of the change to the internal cache, the tablesorter v2.16+ core, filter widget and pager (both plugin & widget) will only work with the same version or newer files.

Documentation

• See the full documentation.
• All of the original documentation has been included.
• Information from my blog post on undocumented options and lots of new demos have also been included.
• Change log moved from included text file into the wiki documentation.

Questions?

• Check the FAQ page.
• Search the main documentation (click the menu button in the upper left corner).
• Search the issues to see if the question or problem has been brought up before, and hopefully resolved.
• If someone is available, ask your question in the #tablesorter IRC channel at freenode.net.
• Ask your question at Stackoverflow using a tablesorter tag.
• Please don't open a new issue unless it really is an issue with the plugin, or a feature request. Thanks!

Demos

• Basic alpha-numeric sort Demo.
• Links to demo pages can be found within the main documentation.
• More demos & playgrounds - updated in the wiki pages.

Features

• Multi-column alphanumeric sorting and filtering.
• Multi-tbody sorting - see the options table on the main document page.
• Supports Bootstrap v2-4.
• Parsers for sorting text, alphanumeric text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats) & time. Add your own easily.
• Inline editing - see demo.
• Support for ROWSPAN and COLSPAN on TH elements.
• Support secondary "hidden" sorting (e.g., maintain alphabetical sort when sorting on other criteria).
• Extensibility via widget system.
• Cross-browser: IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+, Chrome 5.0+.
• Small code size, starting at 25K minified.
• Works with jQuery 1.2.6+ (jQuery 1.4.1+ needed with some widgets).
• Works with jQuery 1.9+ ($.browser.msie was removed; needed in the original version).

Licensing

• Copyright (c) 2007 Christian Bach.
• The original version can be found at http://tablesorter.com, or on GitHub.
• Dual licensed under the MIT or GPLv2 licenses (pick one).

Download

• Get all files: zip or tar.gz.
• Use bower: bower install jquery.tablesorter.
• Use node.js: npm install tablesorter.
• CDNJS: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/jquery.tablesorter
• jsDelivr: http://www.jsdelivr.com/?query=tablesorter

Related Projects

• Plugin for Rails. Maintained by themilkman.
• UserFrosting (A secure, modern user management system for PHP that uses tablesorter) by @alexweissman.
• Grav CMS: bin/gpm install tablesorter (ref).
• tablesorter-pagercontrols – programmatically adds pager controls below a table and applies the pager add-on for large HTML tables by isg-software.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please...

1. Fork.
2. Make changes in a branch & add unit tests.
3. Run grunt test (if qunit fails, run it again - it's fickle).
4. Create a pull request.

Special Thanks

• Big shout-out to Nick Craver for getting rid of the eval() function that was previously needed for multi-column sorting.
• Big thanks to thezoggy for helping with code, themes and providing valuable feedback.
• Big thanks to ThsSin- for taking over for a while and also providing valuable feedback.
• Thanks to prijutme4ty for numerous contributions!
• Also extra thanks to christhomas and Lynesth for help with code.
• And, of course thanks to everyone else that has contributed, and continues to contribute through pull requests and open issues to this forked project!

Recent Changes

View the complete change log here.

<a name="v2.32.0">Version 2.32.0</a> (2024-08-13)

• Core:
  • Remove ie8 support (Grunt limitation)
  • Initialize headers as null
• Grouping: Fix self-closing icon tags to support jQuery 3.5+
• Parser-input-select: Don't use updateCell if cell has parser-false class

<a name="v2.31.3">Version 2.31.3</a> (2020-03-03)

• Core:
  • Cache parsed value in colspan. Fixes issue #1708.
• AlignChar:
  • Tweak demo css. See isssue #1713.
• Pager:
  • Restore first row in cacheIndex. Fixes issues #1714 & #1710.
• Docs:
  • Update to jQuery 3.4.1 & migrate 3.1.0.
  • Update to Bootstrap 4.4.1.
  • CSS cleanup - code font size was off.

<a name="v2.31.2">Version 2.31.2</a> (2019-12-01)

• Column selector:
  • Fix scroller widget compatibility. See issue #1682.
• Filter:
  • Update select2 regexp. See issue #1497. Fixed in PR #1677; thanks @cwisdo!
  • Prevent search on enter if filters are unchanged. See issue #1631. Fixed in PR #1642; thanks @larsbonczek!
• Math
  • Add math ignore to cells; it was documented, but not added previously. See issue #1526.
• Docs:
  • Various fixes.
  • Updated trigger sort page. See issue #1641.
  • Remove invalid widget option. See issue #1581.