How often have you felt the need for sorting your data in tables? I actually have come over this question multiple times and I have had good use of some of the solutions beneath. Yes some of the solutions have bad design, but as a designer, this is your opportunity to design the way you want from a base layout. Anyway, here is a list of 33 JavaScript table sorting scripts and their sources. Enjoy it! 

1. JQUERY TABLESORTER

2. TABLE SORTING WITH PROTOTYPE

3. SORTTABLE

4. TABLE SORTING JAVASCRIPT

5. SORTING TABLES WITH OBJECT ORIENTED JAVASCRIPT QUICKSORT

6. STANDARDISTA TABLE SORTING (A CLIENT-SIDE JAVASCRIPT TABLE SORT MODULE)

7. UNOBTRUSIVE CLIENT-SIDE TABLE SORTING, FILTERING, AND PAGING EXAMPLE

8. MINGYI’S JAVASCRIPT FOR SORTING HTML TABLES

9.WEB DESIGN TUTORIALS: HOW TO SORT TABLE ROWS USING AJAX JAVASCRIPT

10. JAVASCRIPT TABLE SORTER

11. SORT ‘N SCROLL TABLE JAVASCRIPT

12. WEBFX SORTABLE TABLE

13. SORTABLE TABLES IN JAVASCRIPT

14. UNOBTRUSIVE TABLE SORT SCRIPT (REVISITED)

15. SORTEDTABLE

16. JQUERY TUTORIAL: DOM MANIPULATION AND SORTING

17. JAVASCRIPT TOOLBOX – SORTABLE TABLE

18. BRAINJAR TABLE SORT

19. SORTING COLUMNS IN A TABLE

20. MOOTABLE

21. THE JOY OF AN OPTIMIZED, COMPLETE JAVASCRIPT TABLE SORT

22. SAMPLE JAVASCRIPTS: SORT TABLE

23. TINYTABLE JAVASCRIPT TABLE SORTER

24. YET ANOTHER JAVASCRIPT TABLE SORT SCRIPT

25. CLIENT-SIDE TABLE SORTING USING JAVASCRIPT

26. INGRID, THE JQUERY DATAGRID

27. PHATFUSION SORTABLE TABLE

28. DHTML GOODIES: UNOBTRUSIVE SORTABLE TABLE

29. CUT & PASTE SORTABLE TABLE

30. TABLE SORTER

31. DATATABLES 1.4

32. PASCARELLO.COM: JAVASCRIPT SORTABLE TABLE

33. UIZE.WIDGET.TABLESORT EXAMPLE