Table sort update - sorting on child element
The reception to my animated table sort plugin, posted a few weeks ago, has been great. A number of blogs, articles and tweets have featured it.
Some people have asked if it's possible to sort on the content of a child element of each <td>. It wasn't - but it now is, via a new parameter: child, which should be a selector string to match the element.
So if each <td> in column 1 contained a text field, and you wanted to sort on the current values of those textfields, you'd could run:
1$('#example1_table').sortTable({
2 onCol: 1,
3 keepRelationships: true,
4 child: 'input'
5});
It's important that your selector matches only one element per <td>, else the sort will fail. If in doubt, be more specific with your selector, e.g.
child: 'input.mytextfield'
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