In addition to the fix in this answer...

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=524043

I would like to have alternate row highlighting built into the script.
Alternate rows should have a css class name of "alternaterow", and the
highlighting should still appear properly after resorting.

The original script can be found here:

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

I would like the "fixed" sorttable.js to enable this alternate row
highlighting without my having to do anything but include the script
as the original example shows. Also, this script should contain the
fixes from the last "answer".

Hi, trevorturk.

I've made the modification to the script you requested. Now, when the
page loads or when a user re-sorts the rows, every other line will
have a css class of 'alternaterow' applied to it. The other
(non-title) rows will have the class 'tablerow' applied to them but,
of course, you don't have to define that.

You can change the styles of the rows by defining the CSS styles
tr.alternaterow (or .alternaterow), and tr.tablerow (or .tablerow).
Other than that, you shouldn't need to make any changes.

There's an example at
http://work.hexx.net/ga/highlightedsorttable/example.html (sorry for
the hideous colour scheme :-)), with the modified script file
available from http://work.hexx.net/ga/highlightedsorttable/sorttable.js.

As with the previous modifications, it seems to work fine with Safari
2, Firefox 1.0.4 and Internet Explorer 6.

If you have any questions or problems with this, please request a clarification.

--wildeeo

This is exactly what I needed, and very fast (again). I really
appreciate the help - you saved me a ton of time.

Just want to give a huge "thanks" as I was looking for exactly the same thing.

Those example and javascript links appear to be dead.

I posted the script here:

http://www.almosteffortless.com/files/sorttable.js

I made some changes that are noted there - like removing the arrows,
and changing the CSS classes to "tablelist" and "tablelist-alt". Let
me know if you have questions.

Any idea on how to sort images? I would have thought it would sort
them alphabetically but it doesn't seem to work. I think it's just a
matter of adding a new function that can parse the img tag.