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Ive used the tablesorter alot in my projects, and Ive had the need for
this as well.
I found a DataTables plugin which looks like it can do colspans, but I
havent tried it.
I actually looked after reading your post to see if it supported the
colspans now, as earlier versions didnt and I see it looks like it
does.
http://www.datatables.net/examples/
Cheers,
Matthew

> Ive used the tablesorter alot in my projects, and Ive had the need for
> this as well.
> I found a DataTables plugin which looks like it can do colspans, but I
> havent tried it.
> I actually looked after reading your post to see if it supported the
> colspans now, as earlier versions didnt and I see it looks like it
> does.
I figured out how to get this working in my project via TableSorter's
textExtraction option. Would like to understand why the docs claim to
support this however.

Hi Mike.
Tablesorter used to support colspan until i found a bug in the checkCellColSpan function. I quick fixed it by removing the function called and forgot to update the docs.
I have a new implementation on the way.
Regards
Christian

Hi Christian,
I've just found a bug which sounds like it's related to this issue.
You may already be aware of this but I'll post it anyway.
I have a table with two rows in the header. The first row has one cell
spanning all the columns, and the second row has a cell for each
column.
With all the default settings (i.e. nothing passed in to the
tablesorter function), the sort arrows appear on the spanned cell as
well as each of the main header cells. But when clicking any column,
the table sorts by the next column along. So if I click the spanned
cell, it sorts by the first column; if I click the 3rd cell in the
second row, it sorts by the 4th column.
I think this is because the spanned cell is now being added to the
header cell list. In an earlier version I used, it was ignored
completely, so cell 0 was the first column, now cell 0 is the header
cell, but when you click it, it sorts by what used to be cell 0, the
first column.
Hope that helps!
--
Scott.

Hi Christian,
I was wondering if you know to when expect the next version that
supports colspan?
I'm using your great plugin, but need colspan support.
Thanks,
Konstantin