Grouping Rows with Client Side HTML Table Sorting
- by Alan Storm
Are there any existing table sorting libraries, or is there a way to configure tablesorter, to sort every two rows? Alternatly, is there a better way to semantially express my table such that standard row sorting will work.
I have an html table that looks something like this
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Header 1</th>
<th>Header 2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Some Data: 1</td>
<td>Some More Data:1 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">Some text about the above data that puts it in context and visually spans under both of the cells above so as not to create a weird looking table</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Some Data: 2</td>
<td>Some More Data: 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">Some text about the above data 2 set that puts it in context and visually spans under both of the cells above so as not to create a weird looking table</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I'm looking for a way to sort the table such that the table is sorted by the data rows, but the row with the colspan travels with its data and is not sorted separately.
