DHTML
While the web design community gradually moves away from using tables to lay out the structure of a page, tables really do have a vital use, their original use; they're for laying out tabular data. For instance, imagine a table of employees. Pretty simple. But if you saw that table in a client-side application, you'd expect to be able to click on the headers and have the table sort, would you not? I know it always annoys me when you can't.
sorttable: Make all your tables sortable
Updated March 2nd 2007 If you like this code, I sincerely recommend that you take a look at the DOMAssistant JavaScript library. The web is littered with full-blown JavaScript libraries who say they will save your day and make your web development life much easier.
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