[thelist] links in a sortable HTML table

[.jeff]

tim,

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> From: Tim Shortt
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> I am trying to implement a client-side sortable table.
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unless it's meant as a learning experience, i'd recommend going with something that's already written.

http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/tablesort/tablesort.html

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> I have managed to get number, character, and date
> content within a TBODY to sort properly when any type
> of content (text or image) in the column <TH> is
> clicked. However, if the content in the TBODY is a link
> [ <a href="#">content</a> ], I haven't found a way to
> sort this data using the content of the anchor. I would
> like the link content to sort by the value of the link,
> (e.g. the string "content" in the example above).
> Currently, the link fields sort by some other way that
> I haven't figured out.
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take a look at the innerText property and sort by those values.

your big headache hasn't shown it's head yet though -- dates.

good luck,

.jeff

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