Simon Willison’s Weblog

Javascript Mojo

Stuart Langridge has released a couple of very neat new Javascript experiments. sorttable makes any data table on a page “sortable” by clicking the table headers. I’ve seen this effect used to demonstrate Microsoft’s proprietary “behaviors” technology but Stuart’s solution has the advantage of being standards compliant and working across different browsers. Best of all, it follows the principles of inobtrusive DHTML and hooks in to the markup using only a class attribute.