jQuery tablesorter 2.0 - Columns Style Widget

# tablesorter

## Columns Style Widget

### Flexible client-side table sorting

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NOTE!

- As of tablesorter version 2.9+, this widget can no longer be applied to versions of tablesorter prior to version 2.8.
- Older versions of this widget can be applied to the original plugin. The code is in the "jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js" file.
- The original "widgetColumns" option has been replaced by "widgetOptions.columns". See the javascript block below for more details (v2.1).
- Table header and footer rows now get updated with the columns widget classes. Check out the "grey" theme to see (v2.4).
- This demo page is running jQuery v1.2.6.

# Demo

Choose Theme:

First Name | Last Name | Age | Total | Discount | Date
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
First Name | Last Name | Age | Total | Discount | Date
Peter | Parker | 28 | $9.99 | 20% | Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM
John | Hood | 33 | $19.99 | 25% | Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM
Clark | Kent | 18 | $15.89 | 44% | Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM
Bruce | Almighty | 45 | $153.19 | 44% | Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM
Bruce | Evans | 22 | $13.19 | 11% | Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM

# Page Header

    <!-- blue theme stylesheet with additional css styles added in v2.0.17 -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/theme.blue.css">
    <!-- tablesorter plugin -->
    <script src="../js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script>

    <!-- tablesorter widget file - loaded after the plugin -->
    <script src="../js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js"></script>

# Javascript

# CSS

    /*
     This css is part of the blue/style.css theme, shown as an example
     To work with the zebra widget, include the .odd and .even color definitions as well
     as definitions for the "primary", "secondary" and "tertiary" sorts.
    */
    /* Column Widget - column sort colors */
    table.tablesorter-blue td.primary,
    table.tablesorter-blue tr.odd td.primary {
    	background-color: #99b3e6;
    }
    table.tablesorter-blue tr.even td.primary {
    	background-color: #c2d1f0;
    }

    table.tablesorter-blue td.secondary,
    table.tablesorter-blue tr.odd td.secondary {
    	background-color: #c2d1f0;
    }
    table.tablesorter-blue tr.even td.secondary {
    	background-color: #d6e0f5;
    }

    table.tablesorter-blue td.tertiary,
    table.tablesorter-blue tr.odd td.tertiary {
    	background-color: #d6e0f5;
    }
    table.tablesorter-blue tr.even td.tertiary {
    	background-color: #ebf0fa;
    }

# HTML

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