I recently had the same problem of links sorting by the URL, but I
discovered that if I removed all the white space within the cell in my
HTML it would sort by the text and not the URL. I don't know if that
will help you with <em> tags as well, but it solved the problem for
links for me.
On Oct 27, 7:53 am, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is example of table presently working on. I using the code below,
> but getting error message:
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
>
> // call the tablesorter plugin
> $("table").tablesorter({
> // define a custom text extraction function
> textExtraction: function(node) {
> // extract data from markup and return it
> return node.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].innerHTML;
> }
> });
>
> });
>
> Error: node.childNodes[0].childNodes[0] is undefined
>
> Example row:
> <td>54</td><td>34</td><td><a hred='something' target='_blank'>blah</
> a></td>
>
> On Oct 26, 6:55 pm, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks, I will tomorrow when back at work. Right now it is data in
> > <td> themselves and links inside as well. I want to make it flexable
> > though so it can handle other types such as <em> etc.
>
> > On Oct 26, 6:26 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Perhaps post an example of the <table>'s HTML and it would (much)
> > > easier to help.... as your first post mentioned <a> tags and you
> > > implied it was nothing but those, now you have <em> or no tag at all,
> > > quite a bit more complicated now
>
> > > On Oct 26, 4:45 pm, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Thanks for the reply. My problem is rising from the fact that not all
> > > > column are url based. Some are straight data and some others might
> > > > have other tags such as <em> around them. I tried following the
> > > > example for custom parser and I kept getting s integer errors. Sorry
> > > > if this is simple problem, I am very nice to jquery and especially
> > > > tablesort.
>
> > > > On Oct 26, 4:36 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > You'll need to write a custom Parser so that you get what's inside the
> > > > > <a> tag and not the string itself...
>
> > > > > It's very easy to do if you just follow his example on the site
>
> > > > > On Oct 26, 3:00 pm, ChaosAD <chao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > I'm fairly new to Tablesort, but got it working for the most part.
> > > > > > The
> > > > > > only problem I have is any columns that have a <a href></a> in them.
> > > > > > It seems to sort it based on the url and not that actual data in the
> > > > > > cell. How do I get it to sort based on the data and not the url?
