jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
jQuery plugin: Validation\n\nCurrent version: 1.3\nCompressed filesize: 14301 bytes\nLicense: MIT/GPL
tableFilter is a filtering, sorting, paging, striping plugin. Given a table with a header row, it applies advanced filtering and sorting options
In this article, we will use jQuery to apply techniques for increasing the readability, usability, and visual appeal of tables, though we are not dealing with tables used for layout and design.
tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.