NOTE!
- In tablesorter version 2.0.5 and older, only the metadata and headers options methods were available to set the parsers.
- In versions 2.0.11+, parsers could be set using class names.
- Currently (versions 2.3+), parsers can be set using any of the following methods (they all do the same thing), in order of priority:
				- jQuery data data-sorter="text"(see the Javascript block below on how to set it directly).
- metadata class="{ sorter: "text" }". This requires the metadata plugin.
- headers option headers : { 0 : { sorter: "text" } }.
- header class name class="sorter-text".
 
- jQuery data 
Demo
| First Name | Last Name | Age | Total | Discount | Date | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter | Parker | 28 | ($9.99) | 20% | Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM | 
| John | 33 | $19.99 | 25% | Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM | |
| Clark | Kent | 18 | 44% | Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM | |
| Bruce | Almighty | 45 | $153.19 | 44% | |
| Bruce | Evans | 22 | N/A | Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM | |
| Evans | 18 | $13.19 | 11% | Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM |