Remove jQuery tablesorter from table

Question

I am using the jQuery tablesorter (http://tablesorter.com).

After being applied to a table by $('#myTable').tablesorter(), how can I remove it again from the table?

Answer 1

There isn't a built-in function to do this, but you could remove the class names and event bindings to stop its functioning... try something like this:

$('table')
 .unbind('appendCache applyWidgetId applyWidgets sorton update updateCell')
 .removeClass('tablesorter')
 .find('thead th')
 .unbind('click mousedown')
 .removeClass('header headerSortDown headerSortUp');

The above won't work if you have the pager plugin running.

Answer 2

tablesorter2.0

$("#table").trigger("destroy");

or if you just in need to update all after appending new thead :

$("#table").trigger("updateAll");

-> http://mottie.github.io/tablesorter/docs/index.html

Answer 3

Latest version of table sorter library provides Destroy method

From version 2.16 destroy() method has been added in table sorter library, use this method to remove tablesorter from the table.

Answer 4

use the function given below onclick event of remove shorting element

function removeTableShorter(){
$("#myTable").tablesorter({ 
headers: {
 0: {sorter: false},
 1: {sorter: false},
 2: {sorter: false},
 3: {sorter: false},
 4: {sorter: false},
 5: {sorter: false}
}
});
$('#myTable th').removeAttr('class');}

u may increase the number of headers according the number of columns of table.