Re: [jQuery] how to get current sort order from tablesorter plugin?

I believe tablesorter's internal sort is stored under "config.sortList" for the table DOM element. It's a multidimensional array of column indices and sort direction, e.g. [[2,0][0,1]].

aquaone

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 15:46, vcohen <vcohen@irvinecompany.com> wrote:

I'm just starting to use Christian Bach's excellent TableSorter plugin, and I
need to get a column's current sort direction. I have several columns:

ID
Name
Category

ID and Name are set to non-sortable using
headers:    { 0: {sorter: false}, 1: {sorter: false} }

I'm adding a click handler on Name so that it fires the sort event on the
Category column. Using the example "Sort table using a link outside the
table" (http://tablesorter.com/docs/example-trigger-sort.html), I'm able to
get the Name header to fire the Category sort -- but it's hard-coded to sort
in one direction.

How can I get it to look at the current direction the Category column is
currently sorted, and sort in the opposite direction? (I can handle flipping
the values; since the sort order is 0 or 1, I can XOR the value to get the
opposite, like var sort; sort ^= sort; -- my question is how to get the
current value.

Here's the code that currently sets the click handler on the Name column:

$("#nameCol").click(function() {
   var sorting = [[2, 0]];     /* sort 3rd col (Category) descending */
   $("#SearchResults").trigger("sorton", [sorting] );  /* SearchResults is
the ID of the soertable table */
   return false;               /* cancel default link action on a#nameCol
*/
});


Cross-posting this to StackOverflow, as well...

Thanks!

- Val
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