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    copied!<p>I came across this, and thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. Click on the column headers to sort ascending, and again to sort descending.</p> <ul> <li>Works in Chrome, Firefox, Opera AND IE(8)</li> <li>Only uses JQuery</li> <li>Does alpha and numeric sorting - ascending and descending</li> </ul> <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>$('th').click(function(){ var table = $(this).parents('table').eq(0) var rows = table.find('tr:gt(0)').toArray().sort(comparer($(this).index())) this.asc = !this.asc if (!this.asc){rows = rows.reverse()} for (var i = 0; i &lt; rows.length; i++){table.append(rows[i])} }) function comparer(index) { return function(a, b) { var valA = getCellValue(a, index), valB = getCellValue(b, index) return $.isNumeric(valA) &amp;&amp; $.isNumeric(valB) ? valA - valB : valA.toString().localeCompare(valB) } } function getCellValue(row, index){ return $(row).children('td').eq(index).text() }</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { cursor: pointer; }</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Country&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Date&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Size&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;France&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2001-01-01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;25&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=#&gt;spain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2005-05-05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Lebanon&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2002-02-02&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-17&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Argentina&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2005-04-04&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;100&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-6&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;</code></pre> </div> </div> </p> <h2>** Update: 2018</h2> <ul> <li>For those that are interested, I've provided an <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/49041392/782034">ES6 Plain Javascript solution here</a>.</li> </ul>
 

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