# christianbach/tablesorter

Flexible client-side table sorting

Repository: https://github.com/christianbach/tablesorter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/christianbach-tablesorter
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-03-30T04:56:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4488, "days_push": 2347, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1016, forks 480 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.323828+00:00)

## What it is
A jQuery plugin that adds flexible client-side sorting to standard HTML tables with THEAD/TBODY structure. Users click column headers to sort, with configurable multi-column sort lists and date formats.

## Use cases
- sort html tables by clicking column headers
- add client-side sorting to a jquery table
- multi-column table sorting in the browser
- sort tables with custom date formats
- make an existing html table sortable without a backend

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery and need quick, dependency-light table sorting
- you want purely client-side sorting of standard HTML tables
- you need configurable multi-column and date-format sorting

## When to avoid
- you use a modern framework like React or Vue with its own table components
- you need server-side or paginated sorting of large datasets
- you want a maintained library with active development

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, table-sorting, client-side, html-tables, javascript

## Member repositories
- christianbach/tablesorter (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.323828+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:18.198548+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/christianbach/tablesorter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.323828+00:00, sha 36575bc08506)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.