jQuery tablesorter how to find sortList object

Question

I am using the jQuery tablesorter plugin. I am wanting to store how a user has sorted the table on the page and automatically sort that way the next time the page loads. To do

Answer 1

You need to bind your table element to the tablesorter sortEnd event. All the data for that object is passed in to the handler. You can then get the current sort like so:

var currentSort;

$("#yourtableId").tablesorter({
    // initialization
}).bind("sortEnd", function(sorter) {
    currentSort = sorter.target.config.sortList;
});