Hi Doug

Point me at the code.

On 15/07/18 12:53, Doug Bell wrote:
Using DataTables would not be a quick switch: The data in the table is not 
rendered in the markup. It's loaded with JavaScript, which means I have to do a 
lot more than just call a single function.

Even the sorttable.js I'm now using requires me to call a function at the right 
time. If it required any more than that, I'd've stopped and given up. I only 
even thought it might work because the documentation said it used the DOM 
elements, so I had hoped that it read the data from the DOM when the user 
clicked the header (turns out that's not the case, and the docs said I had to 
call a single function to make it sortable again).

It would likely take as much time to add DataTables to this page as it would to 
rewrite this page to use Mojolicious (which would then render the data in the 
markup, and then adding DataTables would take one line of JS).

If anyone is interested in doing either of these things, I can help point them 
to the places they would need to change. But for now, I've got to move on to 
other things.


Doug Bell
d...@preaction.me



On Jul 14, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote:

Hi Doug

I'd strongly suggest a quick switch from sorttable to the much more 
sophisticated yet very simple datatables: https://datatables.net/.

On 15/07/18 07:42, Doug Bell wrote:
Okay, this is added now (slightly less than one year later). It's not perfect, 
sometimes the sorting is slightly inaccurate, and it doesn't seem to let me 
sort descending, but it'll work until the page around it can be made a bit 
better.
Doug Bell
d...@preaction.me
On Jul 27, 2017, at 6:42 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:

It would be handy if the columns in the table here:
  http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/N/Number-Phone.html#Number-Phone-3.4001_02

were sortable. I use this JS library for something similar on my own
webshite. It's dead simple and Just Works with minimal effort:
  https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

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