Ran into an awesome jQuery plugin today while trying to find a quick way to add filtering and sorting to a table on the client machine rather than on the server side. It’s called TableSorter.

You can easily enable client side filtering, sorting and paging with a few lines of javascript and a multitude of options to customize it to your needs.

Here’s a demo. You can click on the headers to sort or type into the textbox to filter by FirstName or LastName.

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