如果你想避免所有的铃铛和口哨，那么我可以建议这个简单的sortElements插件。用法:

var table = $('table');

$('.sortable th')
    .wrapInner('<span title="sort this column"/>')
    .each(function(){

        var th = $(this),
            thIndex = th.index(),
            inverse = false;

        th.click(function(){

            table.find('td').filter(function(){

                return $(this).index() === thIndex;

            }).sortElements(function(a, b){

                if( $.text([a]) == $.text([b]) )
                    return 0;

                return $.text([a]) > $.text([b]) ?
                    inverse ? -1 : 1
                    : inverse ? 1 : -1;

            }, function(){

                // parentNode is the element we want to move
                return this.parentNode; 

            });

            inverse = !inverse;

        });

    });

还有一个演示。(点击“城市”和“设施”列标题进行排序)

我偶然发现了这个，就想发表我的意见。单击列标题进行升序排序，再单击列标题进行降序排序。

适用于Chrome, Firefox, Opera和IE(8) 只使用JQuery 阿尔法和数字排序是升序和降序吗

$('th').click(function(){ var table = $(this).parents('table').eq(0) var rows = table.find('tr:gt(0)').toArray().sort(comparer($(this).index())) this.asc = !this.asc if (!this.asc){rows = rows.reverse()} for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){table.append(rows[i])} }) function comparer(index) { return function(a, b) { var valA = getCellValue(a, index), valB = getCellValue(b, index) return $.isNumeric(valA) && $.isNumeric(valB) ? valA - valB : valA.toString().localeCompare(valB) } } function getCellValue(row, index){ return $(row).children('td').eq(index).text() } table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { cursor: pointer; } <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <table> <tr><th>Country</th><th>Date</th><th>Size</th></tr> <tr><td>France</td><td>2001-01-01</td><td>25</td></tr> <tr><td><a href=#>spain</a></td><td>2005-05-05</td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Lebanon</td><td>2002-02-02</td><td>-17</td></tr> <tr><td>Argentina</td><td>2005-04-04</td><td>100</td></tr> <tr><td>USA</td><td></td><td>-6</td></tr> </table>

**更新:2018年

对于那些感兴趣的人，我在这里提供了一个ES6纯Javascript解决方案。

我最终使用了尼克的答案(最受欢迎但不被接受)https://stackoverflow.com/a/19947532/5271220

并将其与https://stackoverflow.com/a/16819442/5271220结合起来，但不想在项目中添加图标或fontawesome。对于sort-column-asc/desc的CSS样式，我设置了颜色、填充、圆角边框。

我还修改了它，按类而不是按任何，这样我们就可以控制哪些是可排序的。如果以后有两个表，这也可以派上用场，尽管需要为此做更多的修改。

身体:

 html += "<thead>\n";
    html += "<th></th>\n";
    html += "<th class=\"sort-header\">Name <span></span></i></th>\n";
    html += "<th class=\"sort-header\">Status <span></span></th>\n";
    html += "<th class=\"sort-header\">Comments <span></span></th>\n";
    html += "<th class=\"sort-header\">Location <span></span></th>\n";
    html += "<th nowrap class=\"sort-header\">Est. return <span></span></th>\n";
    html += "</thead>\n";
    html += "<tbody>\n"; ...

．.． 再往下看

$("body").on("click", ".sort-header", function (e) {
    var table = $(this).parents('table').eq(0)
    var rows = table.find('tr:gt(0)').toArray().sort(comparer($(this).index()))
    this.asc = !this.asc
    if (!this.asc) { rows = rows.reverse() }
    for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) { table.append(rows[i]) }

    setIcon(e.target, this.asc);
});

功能:

function comparer(index) {
        return function (a, b) {
            var valA = getCellValue(a, index), valB = getCellValue(b, index)
            return $.isNumeric(valA) && $.isNumeric(valB) ? valA - valB : valA.toString().localeCompare(valB)
        }
    }

    function getCellValue(row, index) {
        return $(row).children('td').eq(index).text()
    }

    function setIcon(element, inverse) {

        var iconSpan = $(element).find('span');

        if (inverse == true) {
            $(iconSpan).removeClass();
            $(iconSpan).addClass('sort-column-asc');
            $(iconSpan)[0].innerHTML = " &#8593 " // arrow up
        } else {
            $(iconSpan).removeClass();
            $(iconSpan).addClass('sort-column-desc');
            $(iconSpan)[0].innerHTML = " &#8595 " // arrow down 
        }

        $(element).siblings().find('span').each(function (i, obj) {
            $(obj).removeClass();
            obj.innerHTML = "";
        });
    }

这里有一个图表，可能有助于决定使用哪个:http://blog.sematext.com/2011/09/19/top-javascript-dynamic-table-libraries/

另一种对HTML表进行排序的方法。(基于W3.JS HTML Sort)

/* Facility Name */ $('#bioTable th:eq(0)').addClass("control-label pointer"); /* Phone # */ $('#bioTable th:eq(1)').addClass("not-allowed"); /* City */ $('#bioTable th:eq(2)').addClass("control-label pointer"); /* Specialty */ $('#bioTable th:eq(3)').addClass("not-allowed"); var collection = [{ "FacilityName": "MinION", "Phone": "999-8888", "City": "France", "Specialty": "Genetic Prediction" }, { "FacilityName": "GridION X5", "Phone": "999-8812", "City": "Singapore", "Specialty": "DNA Assembly" }, { "FacilityName": "PromethION", "Phone": "929-8888", "City": "San Francisco", "Specialty": "DNA Testing" }, { "FacilityName": "iSeq 100 System", "Phone": "999-8008", "City": "Christchurch", "Specialty": "gDNA-mRNA sequencing" }] $tbody = $("#bioTable").append('<tbody></tbody>'); for (var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) { $tbody = $tbody.append('<tr class="item"><td>' + collection[i]["FacilityName"] + '</td><td>' + collection[i]["Phone"] + '</td><td>' + collection[i]["City"] + '</td><td>' + collection[i]["Specialty"] + '</td></tr>'); } .control-label:after { content: "*"; color: red; } .pointer { cursor: pointer; } .not-allowed { cursor: not-allowed; } <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://www.w3schools.com/lib/w3.js"></script> <link href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <p>Click the <strong>table headers</strong> to sort the table accordingly:</p> <table id="bioTable" class="w3-table-all"> <thead> <tr> <th onclick="w3.sortHTML('#bioTable', '.item', 'td:nth-child(1)')">Facility Name</th> <th>Phone #</th> <th onclick="w3.sortHTML('#bioTable', '.item', 'td:nth-child(3)')">City</th> <th>Specialty</th> </tr> </thead> </table>

@Nick Grealy的回答很好，但它没有考虑到表头单元格可能的行跨度属性(可能其他答案也没有这样做)。下面是对@Nick Grealy的回答的改进，解决了这个问题。也是基于这个答案(谢谢@Andrew Orlov)。

我也替换了$。isNumeric函数带有自定义的函数(感谢@zad)，以使其适用于较旧的jQuery版本。

要激活它，在<table>标记中添加class="sortable"。

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('table.sortable th').click(function(){
        var table = $(this).parents('table').eq(0);
        var column_index = get_column_index(this);
        var rows = table.find('tbody tr').toArray().sort(comparer(column_index));
        this.asc = !this.asc;
        if (!this.asc){rows = rows.reverse()};
        for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){table.append(rows[i])};
    })

});

function comparer(index) {
    return function(a, b) {
        var valA = getCellValue(a, index), valB = getCellValue(b, index);
        return isNumber(valA) && isNumber(valB) ? valA - valB : valA.localeCompare(valB);
    }
}
function getCellValue(row, index){ return $(row).children('td').eq(index).html() };

function isNumber(n) {
  return !isNaN(parseFloat(n)) && isFinite(n);
}

function get_column_index(element) {
    var clickedEl = $(element);
    var myCol = clickedEl.closest("th").index();
    var myRow = clickedEl.closest("tr").index();
    var rowspans = $("th[rowspan]");
    rowspans.each(function () {
        var rs = $(this);
        var rsIndex = rs.closest("tr").index();
        var rsQuantity = parseInt(rs.attr("rowspan"));
        if (myRow > rsIndex && myRow <= rsIndex + rsQuantity - 1) {
            myCol++;
        }
    });
    // alert('Row: ' + myRow + ', Column: ' + myCol);
    return myCol;
};