Question

I am using the TableSorter plugin in jquery. However one of the column in the table is listed as follows :

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Market Cap

• $12M
• $1.2B
• $3B
• $34M

And the TableSorter is not working properly. Any idea how to fix it. Any other plugin which I can use ?

P.S: I cannot do-away with suffix M & B. So I cannot Mathematically modify the Market cap so that it works properly.

Thanks

Answer 1

Check this fiddle out

Looking through the docs of TableSorter it looks like you can create a custom parser.

Created this simply parser and it looks to do the trick

$.tablesorter.addParser({
        // set a unique id
        id: 'marketcap',
        is: function(s) {
            // return false so this parser is not auto detected
            return false;
        },
        format: function(s) {
            s = s.replace('$','');
            if(s.indexOf('M') >-1){
                s = parseInt(s)* 1000000;
            }else if(s.indexOf('B') >-1){
                s = parseInt(s)* 1000000000;
            }

            // format your data for normalization
            return s;
        },
        // set type, either numeric or text
        type: 'numeric'
    });