Exclude a column from being sorted using jQuery tablesorter

Question

I am looking for a way to exclude a single column from being sorted using jQuery\'s tablesorter plugin. Specifically, I have a fairly large table and would like to keep a \"row

Answer 1

Edit: I've made a sample of this technique at http://jsbin.com/igupu4/3. Click any column heading to sort...

While I don't have an answer to your question about jquery, here's an alternate way to get the specific behaviour you described here, fixed row numbers after sorting. (Using CSS, specifically the content property, and counter related properties/functions.)

  
  
  
  
  



  

    

      

        
Col 1
        
Col 2
    
    

      

        

          
foo
        
        

          
quuz
        
      

      

        
bar
        
quux
      

      

        
baz
        
baz
      
    
  

  

    

      

        
Rownums
        
Col 1
        
Col 2
        
More Rownums
    
    

      

        

        

          
foo
        
        

          
bar
        
        

      

      

        

        
quuz
        
baz
        

      

      

        

        
fred
        
quux
        

      
    
  

If your browser is sufficiently CSS2.1 compatible, you can use tr:before instead of td:first-child:before in sample 1. (Mozilla only supports this in trunk for now...)

In sample 2, you can see how to position your row-number columns anywhere, not just in the first column.