Question

When using tablesorter I cannot sort out properly when I add something to say a number in a table cell.
eg. 30 MB, 50 MB etc.

Is there anyway of telling the sorting to ignore text in a cell ie. the MB in this example?

Also, about in-line styling and tags:
How can I sort out the following properly?

<td><span>upto</span> 50 <br /> MB</td>

Taking into account the ‘upto’ and ‘MB’ text and the <br /> tag.

Answer 1

Try passing the textExtraction option to the tableSorter method.

Something in the lines of:

var extractData = function(node)  {      
    return $(node).text().replace(/[^0-9.]/g, ''); 
} 

$(document).ready(function()     {         
    $("#yourTable").tableSorter( {
        textExtraction: extractData
        } ); 
} ); 

Link for DOC: http://tablesorter.com/docs/

Check example @:http://tablesorter.com/docs/example-option-text-extraction.html