NOTE! The presorting of an empty table and automatic sorting of appended data was added in version 2.0.14 (not part of the original plugin).
Demo
First Name |
Last Name |
Age |
Total |
Discount |
Date |
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Javascript
$(function() {
// Set up empty table with second and first columns pre-sorted
$("table").tablesorter({ theme : 'blue', sortList: [[2,1],[0,0]] });
$("#append").click(function() {
// add some html
var html = "<tr><td>Peter</td><td>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>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>Almighty</td><td>45</td><td>$153.19</td><td>44%</td><td>Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM</td></tr>";
// append new html to table body
$("table tbody").append(html);
// let the plugin know that we made a update, then the plugin will
// automatically sort the table based on the header settings
$("table").trigger("update");
return false;
});
});
HTML
<table class="tablesorter">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Total</th>
<th>Discount</th>
<th>Date</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
<a href="#" id="append">Append new table data</a>