Question

I have 2 tables, one table has 2 columns, the other table has 1 column. When you click on a row, that row is removed from the table and a new TR is added to the end of the opposite table. Now I want to sort it alphabetically.

jQuery plugins like tablesorter are total overkill for what I want to do. Is there a simple way I can sort the table?

Edit: Fiddle

Answer 1

Here you have a simple table sorter with a Fiddle demo here:

HTML

<table id="sort-table">
    <tbody>
        <tr><td>he</td></tr>
        <tr><td>stackoverflow</td></tr>
        <tr><td>by</td></tr>
        <tr><td>vote</td></tr>
        <tr><td>post</td></tr>
        <tr><td>And</td></tr>
        <tr><td>clicking</td></tr>
        <tr><td>up</td></tr>
        <tr><td>did</td></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<br>
<button class="sort-table asc">sort ASC</button>
<button class="sort-table desc">sort DESC</button>

JQUERY

$('.sort-table').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();                    // prevent default behaviour

    var sortAsc = $(this).hasClass('asc'), // ASC or DESC sorting
        $table  = $('#sort-table'),        // cache the target table DOM element
        $rows   = $('tbody > tr', $table); // cache rows from target table body

    $rows.sort(function(a, b) {

        var keyA = $('td',a).text();
        var keyB = $('td',b).text();

        if (sortAsc) {
            return (keyA > keyB) ? 1 : 0;  // A bigger than B, sorting ascending
        } else {
            return (keyA < keyB) ? 1 : 0;  // B bigger than A, sorting descending
        }
    });

    $rows.each(function(index, row){
      $table.append(row);                  // append rows after sort
    });
});