ajax update with different thead?

[designosis]

This began as an issue, but I came up with a solution in the process of writing it down. Someone might find this useful in your "empty table" example http://mottie.github.com/tablesorter/docs/example-empty-table.html ...

If you are replacing the <tbody> content, the given example is perfect. However, if you want to dynamically replace the <thead> as well, you need to do something like this:

$('#mytable').trigger('destroy').html(' new thead and tbody ').tablesorter({...});

One more thing to note: Parsers will need to be re-applied, as 'destroy' destroys them as well.

Thanks Mottie for the amazing work!

[Mottie]

Hi neokio!

Thanks for the compliment! :)

Hmm, maybe I should add a new "fullUpdate" method or add some flag to make the existing "update" method include the thead.

I just answered a similar question on StackOverflow and provided this code:

// initialisation
var initOptions = {
  theme: 'blue',
  sortList: [[2,1],[0,0]]
};
$("table").tablesorter(initOptions);

Then after the ajax update, use:

// Remove tablesorter and all classes
// false in the destroy method means leave the "tablesorter" and "tablesorter-{theme}" class names alone
$("table").trigger("destroy", [false, function(){
  // callback after the destroy method

  // modify the table here
  $('table thead').html( '<tr>' + headers + '</tr>' );
  $('table tbody').html( data );

  // reinitialize the plugin
  $("table").tablesorter(initOptions);
}]);

*Note: You can't modify the thead before calling the destroy method because the destroy method will restore the headers to the way they were before the plugin was initialized (data is saved in table.config.headerContent)

[Mottie]

Hi @neokio!

I just pushed out v2.8.0 which includes a new updateAll method. Check out the demo.