Create easy sortable table for blog?

December 22, 2007 7:04 AM

What's the best way to create a website table that a) can be dynamically (via Javascript) and statically sorted by readers and that b) can be created and added to easily c) for a Blogspot blog. E.g. a list of products I like, with ratings and category (sort by any of these things)? Thanks.
posted by shivohum to computers & internet (5 comments total)

There's plenty of ways out there, but all of them will require you to know basic HTML.
posted by gramcracker at 7:37 AM on December 22, 2007

I'm just recently started using YUI's DataTable, which allows for client-side sorting among other things. You can pretty easily set up a basic table from an existing HTML table by following the Yahoo examples.
posted by odinsdream at 10:04 AM on December 22, 2007

I believe I've used a variant of the so-called Unobtrusive Table Sort, which I believe meets your requirements.
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 3:28 PM on December 22, 2007

dunno if this will help, but if you don't know any HTML, I created a simple CSV to table tool. its online here http://gregtaff.com/misc/make.html Im not making it clickable to avoid any "pepsi blue" call outs. you'll have to include CSS rules for "odd" and "even" classes to get the every-other color thing.
posted by nihlton at 9:49 AM on December 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Hey, that's awesome nihlton!
posted by odinsdream at 6:13 AM on December 25, 2007