Tablesorter - sorting by iso date positioned within markup inside cell?
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am trying to come up with a
method to sort a column by iso date. The cells however, contains a
number of markup containers, and the iso date is encapsuled in the
first of these containers. I have tried to set the inline sorter
options with the metadata-plugin, but it doesn't do anything. I've
also tried to use text extraction pretty much as the example on
tablesorter.com, but only traversing: node.childNodes[0].innerHTML; -
since the container holding the date is the first in the cell. I've
tried with a number of different containers, using div, strong, span,
etc. but as soon as the date is encapsuled in a container, no matter
what I do the script sets the parser to shortDate - but if I remove
the iso date binder lines (20080125 instead of 2008-01-25) it uses
text parser. If I only have the iso date no cvontainer and nothing
else, the script sets the parser to isoDate, and it does it regarless
of inline settings...
How shuold I go about to get the script to extract the iso date out of
its container and sort the column after it, and still be able to keep
the other containers with their content in the same cell?
Any ideas will be highly appreciated...
/Torgil