# tablesorter

## Skip parsing of content

### Flexible client-side table sorting

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NOTE!

- In v2.17.1, this parser setting was added to reduce the time needed to process the table content during initialization and updating.
- Disabling of the sorting of the same column should be observed as sorting will not work without the parsed data.
- Disabling of filtering of the same column may be necessary, especially if the data requires parsing when comparisons of data is required (e.g. looking for dates `<`, `<=`, `>` or `>=` a certain time).
- Use this setting by following any of these methods (they all do the same thing), in order of priority:
  - jQuery data `data-parser="false"`.
  - metadata `class="{ parser: "false" }"`. This requires the metadata plugin.
  - headers option `headers : { 0 : { parser: false } }`.
  - header class name `class="parser-false"`.

# Demo

Name | Age | Date
--- | --- | ---
Peter Parker | 28 | Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM
John Hood | 33 | Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM
Clark Kent | 18 | Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM
Bruce Almighty | 45 | Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM
Bruce Evans | 22 | Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM

# Cached Data

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