Comments on: jQuery TableSorter Comma Parser

By: barneyb

barneyb — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:01 +0000

Ja,

Check out this example from the TableSorter docs: http://tablesorter.com/docs/example-meta-parsers.html

By: Ja

Ja — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:13:02 +0000

Hi, I'm encountering the same problem as kidcardboard's. What do you mean by "explicitly registering the parser for the table column"? Could you please explain? Thanks.

By: kidcardboard

kidcardboard — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:54:18 +0000

That was it. I registered it explicitly for each column and it works now. ty

By: barneyb

barneyb — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:07:59 +0000

kidcardboard, Are you explicitly registering the parser for your table column, or letting TableSorter figure it out on it's own? If the latter, see if registering it explicitly helps. I don't really know anything about how TableSorter does it's thing, but if you crack it open, it might yield some info that'll help if it still doesn't do the right thing.

By: kidcardboard

kidcardboard — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:00:04 +0000

This works like a charm as longs as you have values with commas in the first row.

My problem is my values range from 0 – 2,000 so if the value in the first row doesn't have a comma in it it treats all comma'd values in that corresponding column as strings. For the time being I've put in a hidden row with 9,999 as it's value and it works, but this is obviously not the best solution.

Any suggestions?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:40:23 +0000

Does anyone know how to configure tablesorter so that some of the columns will sort Descending on first click, while other columns will sort Ascending on first click.
The "use case" is I want Alpha columns (like people's names) to sort A…Z, but if user clicks on say the number column that it would sort Descending (100…1). I was not successful so far using the "headers" config. I think it is using that in conjunction with sortlist. The sortlist example is always showing it firing on page load.

Thanks!
jeremy.

By: Serb

Serb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:25:24 +0000

Yeah, it only took me 3 hours and about a dozen posts all over the net to find a clue where to look for it…

By: barneyb

barneyb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:18:16 +0000

Awesome! Thanks Serb.

By: Serb

Serb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:13:32 +0000

found it.

the line that says the following in jquery.tablesorter.js file:

// get current column sort order
this.order = this.count++ % 2;

just change that to this instead:

this.order = ++this.count % 2;

By: barneyb

barneyb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:50:06 +0000

@Serb I haven't looked into the initial DESC sort any more since I posted, and the couple people I've talked to about it haven't had any insight to offer either. I'd imagine hacking the code to be pretty simple (just have to flip some bit's initial value somewhere), but I haven't bothered to dig in.