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

You need to write your own parser. Your parser might end up looking something like:

var months = {'January':1,'February':2, ...};
$.tablesorter.addParser({
    id: 'myDate', 
    is: function(s) { return false; }, 
    format: function(s) {
        var x = s.split(', ');
        return x[1]+'-'+months[x[2]];
    },
    type: 'numeric' 
});

Not tested, but general idea.