Unobtrusive sortable table script

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[Batalf]

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Thanks that is a neat solution

[slothy]

Alf's solution is, naturally, excellent

A solution that i used for a similar problem involved using reg expressions to change td to a date type, storing to array, then sorting on that newly-defined array.

The reason why i adopted this approach was that i did not anticipate users wanting to order on this column often enough to justify having an extra span in the HTML.

Of course meant another chunky JS function but when i had a table 250 rows long didnt matter

Both are good depends 1) how comfortable you are with reg exp and JS and 2) what trade-off you expect or desire (ie more HTML or more code)

Alex