javascript - Sortable table not working

Question

On http://www.elitedeafpoker.com/dev/poker-players.html - I cant get the sortable table to work. I need some help to make it work.

HTML

<table id="myTable" class="tableData">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Rank</th>
            <th width="250">Name</th>
            <th>Earnings</th>
            <th>Points</th>
            <th>Total Earnings</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody></tbody>
 </table>

JAVASCRIPT -

$(document).ready(function() { 
    $("#myTable").tableData(); 
} 
);

jQUERY plugin - http://www.elitedeafpoker.com/dev/js/jquery.tablesorter.min.js

All of the codes were referred by http://tablesorter.com/docs/ please let me know what I've missed.

Answer 1

Notice the error in your browser's console: Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'tableData'

The correct method that the Tablesorter plugin provides is tablesorter, so you want to use:

$("#myTable").tablesorter();

The website link you referenced specifically has this code:

$(document).ready(function() 
    { 
        $("#myTable").tablesorter(); 
    } 
);

If you're using AJAX to load the rows, you need to call:

$("#myTable").trigger("update");

after they are appended.

Answer 2

If I could make a suggestion about libraries, I've used tablesorter before, and eventually switched over to DataTables. Excellent library, with sorting, filtering, etc. built in, and had an awesome, responsive developer, great documentation, and a great community for support.

Answer 3

I would try and use DataTables. The library you are trying to use was last updated in 03-2008 that's almost 5 years ago. In the example The jQuery Version is 1.2. The present version of stable jQuery is 1.9+. There are many changes that are not backward compatible in the intermediate versions.

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If you really want just table sorting. If you insist on using just javascript then you could look at this http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/sorttable.js . The last time I tried it worked fine.