jQuery tablesorter plugin secondary “hidden” sorting

Question

I\'m using the jQuery tablesorter plugin and I have a column that contains name of month and year like this

April, 1975
January, 2001

I would l

Answer 1

Just using the textExtraction function. Set data-sort-value on your TDs. Defaults to normal text if it's not present.

$(".sort-table").tablesorter({
    textExtraction: function(node) {
        var attr = $(node).attr('data-sort-value');
        if (typeof attr !== 'undefined' && attr !== false) {
            return attr;
        }
        return $(node).text(); 
    } 
});