Question

I have a 3 column table (name, author, and date). When the page loads, it sorts the first column (name) by default. How can I make it sort the 3rd column (date) by default when the page loads? Is it something to do with sortList? Thanks for any help.

$(document).ready(function() 
    { 
        $("#SomeList").tablesorter( {sortList: [[0,0], [1,0]]} ); 
    } 
); 

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$("#SomeList").tablesorter({ 
  widgets: ['zebra'],
  dateFormat: "uk",
  sortList: [[0, 0]], 
  headers: { 2: { sorter: false}} 
});

Answer 1

You can also pass in configuration options when you initialize the table using the sortList argument:

An array of instructions for per-column sorting and direction in the
format: [[columnIndex, sortDirection], … ] where columnIndex is a
zero-based index for your columns left-to-right and sortDirection is 0
for Ascending and 1 for Descending. A valid argument that sorts
ascending first by column 1 and then column 2 looks like:
[[0,0],[1,0]]

Here’s how to sort on the 3rd column

$(document).ready(function() {     
 // call the tablesorter plugin
 $("table").tablesorter({
     // sort on the third column, order asc
     sortList: [[2,0]]
 }); }); 

Reference:

tablesorter – Set a initial sorting order