JQuery/Javascript Reordering rows

Question

I have a aspx page that looks something like this:

  Some label
  Some complex control
         


        

Answer 1

Check the jQuery TableSorter Plugin, it's very powerful it detects the underlying datatypes of the columns, and you can sort your table columns programmatically:

$("#yourTable").tablesorter( {sortList: [[0,0]]} );  
// This will sort "yourTable" using 
// the first column, ascending [columnIndex, 0=ASC or 1 = DESC]