[jQuery] Re: Sort columns with URL in Tablesort

I solved it with the following:

var myTextExtraction = function(node)
{
// extract data from markup and return it
if(node.childNodes[0].innerHTML) return node.childNodes
[0].innerHTML;
else return node.innerHTML;
}
$(document).ready(function() {
// extend the default setting to always include the zebra widget.
$.tablesorter.defaults.widgets = ['zebra'];
$("table").tablesorter({textExtraction: myTextExtraction});
});

Thanks for the replies and getting my mind thinking!

On Oct 29, 9:57 am, Jacob <jste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I meant by remove the white space is that normally I like to
> indent all my code, so I'd have the <td> tag, then hit enter, then tab
> in to indent, then have the <a> tag, then potentially hit enter avian
> before putting in the text for the link, etc. What I found, though,
> was that if I put no spaces or newlines (hitting enter) in the HTML
> between the opening <td> and the closing then it would sort properly.
> Just my experience.
>
> On Oct 27, 11:58 am, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Not entirely sure what you mean by removed all the white space. Could
> > you please elaborate.
>
> > On Oct 27, 11:39 am, Jacob <jste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I recently had the same problem of links sorting by the URL, but I
> > > discovered that if I removed all the white space within the cell in my
> > > HTML it would sort by the text and not the URL. I don't know if that
> > > will help you with <em> tags as well, but it solved the problem for
> > > links for me.
>
> > > On Oct 27, 7:53 am, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Here is example of table presently working on. I using the code below,
> > > > but getting error message:
>
> > > > $(document).ready(function() {
>
> > > >     // call the tablesorter plugin
> > > >     $("table").tablesorter({
> > > >         // define a custom text extraction function
> > > >         textExtraction: function(node) {
> > > >             // extract data from markup and return it
> > > >             return node.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].innerHTML;
> > > >         }
> > > >     });
>
> > > > });
>
> > > > Error: node.childNodes[0].childNodes[0] is undefined
>
> > > > Example row:
> > > > <td>54</td><td>34</td><td><a hred='something' target='_blank'>blah</
> > > > a></td>
>
> > > > On Oct 26, 6:55 pm, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Thanks, I will tomorrow when back at work. Right now it is data in
> > > > > <td> themselves and links inside as well. I want to make it flexable
> > > > > though so it can handle other types such as <em> etc.
>
> > > > > On Oct 26, 6:26 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Perhaps post an example of the <table>'s HTML and it would (much)
> > > > > > easier to help.... as your first post mentioned <a> tags and you
> > > > > > implied it was nothing but those, now you have <em> or no tag at all,
> > > > > > quite a bit more complicated now
>
> > > > > > On Oct 26, 4:45 pm, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Thanks for the reply. My problem is rising from the fact that not all
> > > > > > > column are url based. Some are straight data and some others might
> > > > > > > have other tags such as <em> around them. I tried following the
> > > > > > > example for custom parser and I kept getting s integer errors. Sorry
> > > > > > > if this is simple problem, I am very nice to jquery and especially
> > > > > > > tablesort.
>
> > > > > > > On Oct 26, 4:36 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > You'll need to write a custom Parser so that you get what's inside the
> > > > > > > > <a> tag and not the string itself...
>
> > > > > > > > It's very easy to do if you just follow his example on the site
>
> > > > > > > > On Oct 26, 3:00 pm, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > I'm fairly new to Tablesort, but got it working for the most part. The
> > > > > > > > > only problem I have is any columns that have a <a href></a> in them.
> > > > > > > > > It seems to sort it based on the url and not that actual data in the
> > > > > > > > > cell. How do I get it to sort based on the data and not the url?