# tablesorter

## Disable sort

### Flexible client-side table sorting

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NOTE!

- In tablesorter v2.18.1, you can now target a column by the class name of an element inside of a header; note that the span has the targeted class name in the first name column.
- In tablesorter v2.0.5 and older, only the metadata and headers options methods were available.
- In versions 2.3+, columns can be disabled using any of the following methods (they all do the same thing), in order of priority:
  - jQuery data `data-sorter="false"` (see the Javascript block below on how to set it directly).
  - metadata `class="{ sorter: false }"`. This requires the metadata plugin.
  - headers option `headers : { 0 : { sorter: false } }`.
  - header class name `class="sorter-false"`.

# Demo

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

# Javascript

# HTML

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