Jörn, This is certainly a very interesting approach!
I will try to incorporate the ides into the release. As for RegExp, the filters for text nodes do support standard RegExp syntax. There will be support for a global RegExp driven search field that will search the entire table structure. Thanks for the feedback! /christian Jörn Zaefferer wrote: > Christian Bach schrieb: >> Hi All! >> >> I have been working hard to get filtering into the next release of >> TableSorter. So i have put up a "rough" demo of how it will work. >> >> The demo is located here: >> http://motherrussia.polyester.se/pub/jquery/demos/filter/filter-demo.html >> >> In the full release filtering on dates will work and there will be an >> option to apply text filtering on all columns, more of a search function >> for tables. >> >> Feedback would be appreciated. >> > Thats pretty cool stuff! > > I think this could very nicely work like this (maybe partly the same on > what you are planning already): > Click on the filter icon for a column, a popup is displayed at the icon > with an input (with focus!), I enter something, hit enter key and watch > the result. Pressing escape removes the popup. By deleting what I > entered and pressing enter, I get the full result again. That way I can > apply more than one filter column. With one or more filters applied, > clicking on a column sorter then sorts the filtered table. The icon > changes for each column that has a filter active, that way I can find > and remove them. > Though the range filter is nice, I want to be able to do a text search > on all columns, eg. all IDs containing 004. A simple grep/regex syntax > to search for start or end of strings would be nice, too. > > -- Jörn _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
