NOTE!
- As of tablesorter version 2.9+, this widget can no longer be applied to versions of tablesorter prior to version 2.8.
- This widget now saves all changed column widths to local storage, or it falls back to a cookie! (v2.1)
- Column width saving requires the new "$.tablesorter.storage()" function included with the "jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js" file (v2.1).
- Right clicking (opening the context menu) will now reset the resized columns (v2.4).
- Holding down the shift key while resizing will force the last column or the table to resize instead of the next column, but only if the table is full width (v2.7.4).
- Prevent resizing a column by adding any of the following (they all do the same thing), set in order of priority (v2.7.4):
- jQuery data
data-resizable="false".
- metadata
class="{ resizable: 'false'}". This requires the metadata plugin.
- headers option
headers : { 0 : { resizable : 'false' } }.
- header class name
class="resizable-false".
- Setting the
resizable widget option to false, will only prevent the saving of resized columns, it has nothing to do with preventing a column from being resized.
- Because this widget uses jQuery's
closest() (jQuery 1.3+) and index() (jQuery 1.4+) functions, it requires these newer versions of jQuery in order to work.
- In order to save the resized widths, jQuery version 1.4.1+ should be used because jQuery's
parseJson() function is needed.
- Setting the
resizable_addLastColumn widget option to true will add the resizable handle to the last column, see the "non-full" width table below (v2.9.0).
Demo
Non-full width table (individual columns resize)
| First Name |
Last Name |
Age |
Total |
Discount |
Date |
| Peter |
Parker |
28 |
$9.99 |
20% |
Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM |
| John |
Hood |
33 |
$19.99 |
25% |
Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM |
| Clark |
Kent |
18 |
$15.89 |
44% |
Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM |
| Bruce |
Almighty |
45 |
$153.19 |
44% |
Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM |
| Bruce |
Evans |
22 |
$13.19 |
11% |
Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM |
Full width table (use shift to force last column to resize)
| First Name |
Last Name |
Age |
Total |
Discount |
Date |
| Peter |
Parker |
28 |
$9.99 |
20% |
Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM |
| John |
Hood |
33 |
$19.99 |
25% |
Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM |
| Clark |
Kent |
18 |
$15.89 |
44% |
Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM |
| Bruce |
Almighty |
45 |
$153.19 |
44% |
Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM |
| Bruce |
Evans |
22 |
$13.19 |
11% |
Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM |
Page Header
<!-- blue theme stylesheet with additional css styles added in v2.0.17 -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/theme.blue.css">
<!-- tablesorter plugin -->
<script src="../js/jquery.tablesorter.js"></script>
<!-- tablesorter widget file - loaded after the plugin -->
<script src="../js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets.js"></script>
Javascript
HTML
<!-- The Age column is set to not be resizable -->
<table class="tablesorter" style="width:auto">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th class="resizable-false">Age</th>
<th>Total</th>
<th>Discount</th>
<th>Date</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
...
</tbody>
</table>