By default the tablesorter code uses some algorithm(s) to try and 'figure out' where the text starts. So it skips HTML entities (maybe not all, but some).
Take a look at the textExtraction methods that are built into the code and you'll see what I'm talking about. On Sep 5, 9:54 am, MorningZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that doesn't sound right > > because anything inside the <td></td> tag would be treated as text > *unless* the built in parsers couldn't figure out what to do with them > (or a custom parser was defined) > > so the columns could be like > > <td>A</td><td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /></td> > <td>B</td><td><input type="checkbox" /></td> > <td>C</td><td><input type="checkbox" /></td> > <td>D</td><td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /></td> > <td>E</td><td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /></td> > > and it would sort > > <td>B</td><td><input type="checkbox" /></td> > <td>C</td><td><input type="checkbox" /></td> > <td>A</td><td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /></td> > <td>D</td><td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /></td> > <td>E</td><td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /></td> > > because > > "<input type="checkbox" />" > > comes before > > "<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />"
