I have a very simple HTML table with 4 columns:
Facility Name, Phone #, City, Specialty
I want the user to be able to sort by Faci
@Nick Grealy's answer is great, but it does not take into account possible rowspan attributes of the table header cells (and probably the other answers don't do it either). Here is an improvement of the @Nick Grealy's answer which fixes that. Based on this answer too (thanks @Andrew Orlov).
I've also replaced the $.isNumeric function with a custom one (thanks @zad) to make it work with older jQuery versions.
To activate it, add class="sortable" to the tag.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('table.sortable th').click(function(){
var table = $(this).parents('table').eq(0);
var column_index = get_column_index(this);
var rows = table.find('tbody tr').toArray().sort(comparer(column_index));
this.asc = !this.asc;
if (!this.asc){rows = rows.reverse()};
for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){table.append(rows[i])};
})
});
function comparer(index) {
return function(a, b) {
var valA = getCellValue(a, index), valB = getCellValue(b, index);
return isNumber(valA) && isNumber(valB) ? valA - valB : valA.localeCompare(valB);
}
}
function getCellValue(row, index){ return $(row).children('td').eq(index).html() };
function isNumber(n) {
return !isNaN(parseFloat(n)) && isFinite(n);
}
function get_column_index(element) {
var clickedEl = $(element);
var myCol = clickedEl.closest("th").index();
var myRow = clickedEl.closest("tr").index();
var rowspans = $("th[rowspan]");
rowspans.each(function () {
var rs = $(this);
var rsIndex = rs.closest("tr").index();
var rsQuantity = parseInt(rs.attr("rowspan"));
if (myRow > rsIndex && myRow <= rsIndex + rsQuantity - 1) {
myCol++;
}
});
// alert('Row: ' + myRow + ', Column: ' + myCol);
return myCol;
};