this is a helluva plugin... totally without html additions, and the
magic just happens!
/*
*
* TableSorter - Client-side table sorting with ease!
*
* Copyright (c) 2006 Christian Bach (http://motherrussia.polyester.se)
* Licensed under the MIT License:
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*
* $Date: 2006-08-21 14:43:23 +0000 (må, 21 aug 2006) $
* $Author: Christian $
*
*/
On 10/12/06, Adrian Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys today I finally got around to using jQuery today and man do i
> love it. wished that I had known about it before I started my last
> project. would have saved me a couple of months work.
>
>
> Ok well back to today
>
> I needed to take a structure (table made of div's) and sort by
> alphabetic order once I got my head around the way that jQuery worked my
> boss who had used jQuery more showed me the exact code I needed for
> doing the sort. what you have two css selector definitions, one for
> the rows of your data and the other is the css selector information for
> the element that holds the information that you want to sort on
>
> basically what you would end up with is
>
> $.sort("table.report tbody tr", "td.name a");
>
> would sort the following table into alphabetic order
>
> <table class='report'>
> <thead>...</thead>
> <tbody>
> <tr><td class='name'><a href='zebra.html'>zebra</a></td><td>Looks
> like a horse with stripes</td></tr>
> <tr><td class='name'><a href='tiger.html'>tiger</a></td><td>Looks
> like a horse with stripes but with sharp teeth.</td></tr>
> </tbody>
> </table>
>
> I think that this would be a great addition to the jQuery base class or
> should it just be a plugin.
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> var rows = [];
> $("table.report tbody tr").each(function(){
> rows[rows.length] = [$(this).find("td.name a").html(),this];
> });
> rows.sort(function(a,b){
> if (a[0] < b[0]) {
> return -1
> } else if (a[0] > b[0]) {
> return 1
> } else {
> return 0;
> }});
> $.each(rows, function() {
> this[1].parentNode.appendChild(this[1]);
> });
> });
>
> I'll look into adding this to the jQuery-latest.js code later
>
> Adrian Sweeney
>
>
>
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