Custom Parser for JQuery Tablesorter
- by Tim
I'm using the jQuery Tablesorter and have an issue with the order in which parsers are applied against table columns. I'm adding a custom parser to handle currency of the form $-3.33.
$.tablesorter.addParser({
id: "fancyCurrency",
is: function(s) {
return /^\$[\-]?[0-9,\.]*$/.test(s);
},
format: function(s) {
s = s.replace(/[$,]/g,'');
return $.tablesorter.formatFloat( s );
},
type: "numeric"
});
The problem seems to be that the built-in currency parser takes precedence over my custom parser. I could put the parser in the tablesorter code itself (before the currency parser) and it works properly, but this isn't very maintainable. I can't specify the sorter manually using something like:
headers: {
3: { sorter: "fancyNumber" },
11: { sorter: "fancyCurrency" }
}
since the table columns are generated dynamically from user inputs. I guess one option would be to specify the sorter to use as a css class and use some JQuery to explicitly specify a sorter like this question suggests, but I'd prefer to stick with dynamic detection if possible.
