This week I've been working on implementing Tablesorter. It's a great Jquery table sorting utility, but I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why I could only sort columns in descending order while using the pager plugin when I set the header option to disable some columns. I didn't see anything on here about it so, I thought I would post my fix / solution.
Below, the incorrect way to do it. $(document).ready(function() { $("#SearchResultsTable").tablesorter({ // pass the headers argument and assing a object headers: { 0: { // disable it by setting the property sorter to false sorter: false }, 4: { // disable it by setting the property sorter to false sorter: false } } }) .tablesorter({widthFixed: true, widgets: ['zebra']}) .tablesorterPager({ container: $("#ctl00_MainContent_pager"), positionFixed: false }); ; }); >From what I've discovered, you really need to pass all the parameters in one pass like below: $(document).ready(function() { $("#SearchResultsTable") .tablesorter({ headers: {0: {sorter: false},6: {sorter: false}}, widgets: ['zebra'] }) .tablesorterPager({ container: $("#ctl00_MainContent_pager"), positionFixed: false }); }); Above, I am calling table sorter to disable columns 0 and 6, use the zebra widget, then call the tablesorter Pager plugin.