Jon, You are right! Thanks. I saw those characters and thought were have they come from as in my code it is just white space.
Many Thanks On Oct 1, 1:57 pm, Jon Banner <banali...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > it looks as if you have copied and pasted some illegal characters in to your > demo page. > Try removing these and see if that helps. > > Best, > Jon > > 2009/10/1 Mike <michael.dimm...@virgin.net> > > > > > > > Is there no one that can help? > > > On Sep 30, 4:26 pm, Mike <michael.dimm...@virgin.net> wrote: > > > Hi I have recently come across the tablesorter 2.0 for jquery and have > > > decided to use it on my website. I have the examples to work etc. > > > however I would like to exclude the first column of my table from > > > being sorted and just to remain static irrespect of the other columns > > > being sortable. > > > > I have found this : > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/437290/exclude-a-column-from-being... > > > which is exactly what I needed however when pasting it into my test > > > web page I get line 16 parse error (missing before statement). > > > > I have no previous experience of knowledge of jQuery so I would > > > appreciate if someone could look at my test page and see what the > > > problem is: > >http://www.freebetsextra.co.uk/tablesorter/tests/freebet3.html. > > > > This is the widget I am trying to use: > > > > $(function() { > > > // add new widget called indexFirstColumn > > > $.tablesorter.addWidget({ > > > // give the widget a id > > > id: "indexFirstColumn", > > > // format is called when the on init and when a sorting has > > > finished > > > format: function(table) { > > > // loop all tr elements and set the value for the > > > first column > > > for(var i=0; i < table.tBodies[0].rows.length; i++) { > > > $("tbody tr:eq(" + (i - 1) + ") > > > td:first",table).html(i); > > > } > > > } > > > }); > > > > $("table").tablesorter({ > > > widgets: ['zebra','indexFirstColumn'] > > > }); > > > > });