When developing a website we often need to show some tabular data. We might need to show the next flights from Rome to London, the hotels available in a selected date range, or the last books published by a publisher like SitePoint. HTML provides an element for tabular data that, not surprisingly, is called table. The problem with it is that this element doesn’t have an API that allows you to sort its rows based on a certain criteria, such as the price from low to high.
As a consequence of this lack of API, several JavaScript libraries have been developed and published to address this issue. In this article I’ll introduce you to
Tablesorter (actually a fork of it), a jQuery plugin for client-side table sorting.
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