function showAll() { // for now, assume only 1 table tbl = document.getElementsByTagName("table")[0]; bdy = tbl.getElementsByTagName("tbody")[0]; rows = bdy.getElementsByTagName("tr"); for(i=0;i to your HTML Add class="sortable" to any table you'd like to make sortable Click on the headers to sort Thanks to many, many people for contributions and suggestions. Licenced as X11: http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/licence.html This basically means: do what you want with it. */ var stIsIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false; sorttable = { init: function() { // quit if this function has already been called if (arguments.callee.done) return; // flag this function so we don't do the same thing twice arguments.callee.done = true; // kill the timer if (_timer) clearInterval(_timer); if (!document.createElement || !document.getElementsByTagName) return; sorttable.DATE_RE = /^(\d\d)[\/\.-](\d\d?)[\/\.-]((\d\d)?\d\d)$/; sorttable.YYMMDD_RE = /^((\d\d)?\d\d)[\/\.-](\d\d?)[\/\.-](\d\d)$/; forEach(document.getElementsByTagName('table'), function(table) { if (table.className.search(/\bsortable\b/) != -1) { sorttable.makeSortable(table); } }); }, makeSortable: function(table) { if (table.getElementsByTagName('thead').length == 0) { // table doesn't have a tHead. Since it should have, create one and // put the first table row in it. the = document.createElement('thead'); the.appendChild(table.rows[0]); table.insertBefore(the,table.firstChild); } // Safari doesn't support table.tHead, sigh if (table.tHead == null) table.tHead = table.getElementsByTagName('thead')[0]; if (table.tHead.rows.length != 1) return; // can't cope with two header rows // work through each column and calculate its type headrow = table.tHead.rows[0].cells; for (var i=0; i5' : ' ▴'; this.appendChild(sortrevind); return; } if (this.className.search(/\bsorttable_sorted_reverse\b/) != -1) { // if we're already sorted by this column in reverse, just // re-reverse the table, which is quicker sorttable.reverse(this.sorttable_tbody); this.className = this.className.replace('sorttable_sorted_reverse', 'sorttable_sorted'); this.removeChild(document.getElementById('sorttable_sortrevind')); sortfwdind = document.createElement('span'); sortfwdind.id = "sorttable_sortfwdind"; sortfwdind.innerHTML = stIsIE ? ' 6' : ' ▾'; this.appendChild(sortfwdind); return; } // remove sorttable_sorted classes theadrow = this.parentNode; forEach(theadrow.childNodes, function(cell) { if (cell.nodeType == 1) { // an element cell.className = cell.className.replace('sorttable_sorted_reverse',''); cell.className = cell.className.replace('sorttable_sorted',''); } }); sortfwdind = document.getElementById('sorttable_sortfwdind'); if (sortfwdind) { sortfwdind.parentNode.removeChild(sortfwdind); } sortrevind = document.getElementById('sorttable_sortrevind'); if (sortrevind) { sortrevind.parentNode.removeChild(sortrevind); } this.className += ' sorttable_sorted'; sortfwdind = document.createElement('span'); sortfwdind.id = "sorttable_sortfwdind"; sortfwdind.innerHTML = stIsIE ? ' 6' : ' ▾'; this.appendChild(sortfwdind); // build an array to sort. This is a Schwartzian transform thing, // i.e., we "decorate" each row with the actual sort key, // sort based on the sort keys, and then put the rows back in order // which is a lot faster because you only do getInnerText once per row row_array = []; col = this.sorttable_columnindex; rows = this.sorttable_tbody.rows; for (var j=0; j 12) { // definitely dd/mm return sorttable.sort_ddmm; } else if (second > 12) { return sorttable.sort_mmdd; } else { // looks like a date, but we can't tell which, so assume // that it's dd/mm (English imperialism!) and keep looking sortfn = sorttable.sort_ddmm; } } } } return sortfn; }, getInnerText: function(node) { // gets the text we want to use for sorting for a cell. // strips leading and trailing whitespace. // this is *not* a generic getInnerText function; it's special to sorttable. // for example, you can override the cell text with a customkey attribute. // it also gets .value for fields. hasInputs = (typeof node.getElementsByTagName == 'function') && node.getElementsByTagName('input').length; if (node.getAttribute("sorttable_customkey") != null) { return node.getAttribute("sorttable_customkey"); } var innerText = ''; if (typeof node.textContent != 'undefined' && !hasInputs) { innerText = node.textContent.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); } else if (typeof node.innerText != 'undefined' && !hasInputs) { innerText = node.innerText.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); } else if (typeof node.text != 'undefined' && !hasInputs) { innerText = node.text.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); } if(innerText != '') { return innerText; } else { switch (node.nodeType) { case 3: if (node.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'input') { return node.value.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); } case 4: return node.nodeValue.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); break; case 1: case 11: if(node.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'img') { var tokens = node.src.split('/'); innerText += tokens[tokens.length-1]; } for (var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++) { innerText += sorttable.getInnerText(node.childNodes[i]); } return innerText.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); break; default: return ''; } } }, reverse: function(tbody) { // reverse the rows in a tbody newrows = []; for (var i=0; i=0; i--) { tbody.appendChild(newrows[i]); } delete newrows; }, /* sort functions each sort function takes two parameters, a and b you are comparing a[0] and b[0] */ sort_numeric: function(a,b) { /* could be multiple values separated by semi-colon */ aa = a[0].split(";")[0]; bb = b[0].split(";")[0]; aa = parseFloat(aa.replace(/[^0-9.-]/g,'')); if (isNaN(aa)) aa = 0; bb = parseFloat(bb.replace(/[^0-9.-]/g,'')); if (isNaN(bb)) bb = 0; return aa-bb; }, sort_alpha: function(a,b) { /* case-insensitive */ aa = a[0].toLowerCase(); bb = b[0].toLowerCase(); if(aa.localeCompare) return aa.localeCompare(bb); /* Robby Stephenson */ if (aa==bb) return 0; if (aa 0 ) { var q = list[i]; list[i] = list[i+1]; list[i+1] = q; swap = true; } } // for t--; if (!swap) break; for(var i = t; i > b; --i) { if ( comp_func(list[i], list[i-1]) < 0 ) { var q = list[i]; list[i] = list[i-1]; list[i-1] = q; swap = true; } } // for b++; } // while(swap) } } /* ****************************************************************** Supporting functions: bundled here to avoid depending on a library ****************************************************************** */ // Dean Edwards/Matthias Miller/John Resig /* for Mozilla/Opera9 */ if (document.addEventListener) { document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", sorttable.init, false); } /* for Internet Explorer */ /*@cc_on @*/ /*@if (@_win32) document.write("