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I have a page in an application where the user can move names from one column (table) to another.

I have a bunch of js that removes the selected row from table a and adds it to table b.

Everytime I change one of the tables I want to sort the tables.

The syntax is below, if only for my own reference as it took me ages to get it just right. I need to write a custom sorter as I need to sort on the second word (i.e. surname). But anyway, the following is in a function that gets called when a row is moved between tables…

function sort_table(table){
   $(table).tablesorter();
   $(table).trigger("update");
   var sorting = [[0,0]];
   // sort on the first column
   $(table).trigger("sorton",[sorting]);
}

There’s nothing particularily novel here, all available around the net. The call to

$(table).trigger("update");

is there as I found that when I moved a row over to the right column and then sorted the left column the row appeared to be still in that table. This is because tablesorter uses a cache of some sort. Calling .trigger(“update”) forces it to rebuild the cache. Or something like that…

Tags: jquery, tablesorter

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