Clear Sorting

[jbrooksuk]

There should be an easy way to remove the sorting of a table.

[joequery]

Hm, hadn't considered this before. Thanks for the issue.

[jbrooksuk]

I'm guessing you'd need to store the original sort somehow. 
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Joseph McCullough
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Hm, hadn't considered this before. Thanks for the issue.

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[joequery]

I'm not sure how this idea would be performance wise, but you could store the html of the table before you invoke the plugin, and then do a $("#mytable").html(oldTableHTML) whenever you want to get the original table back.

[jbrooksuk]

Oh no, that can't be a good way of doing it. 

For now, since I'm using backbone I refresh my collection and the table gets redrawn which is useful since its multiple user based. 
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I'm not sure how this idea would be performance wise, but you could store the html of the table before you invoke the plugin, and then do a $("#mytable").html(oldTableHTML) whenever you want to get the original table back.

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[joequery]

I'm just thinking of ways to solve the problems without making modifications to the plugin. My goal is to keep the plugin as small and readable (and thus modifiable) as possible. I don't want to add in a new feature if it can be accomplished outside of the plugin itself.

[svivian]

I don't know of any other plugins doing this.

One easy method to accomplish it though is to add a column to the left with a number for each row, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 and sort by that initially. Then the user can go back and sort by that to "reset" the table.

[DanielBadan]

May be a bit out of topic but if I'm correct the way where sort starts are event listeners of elements with data-sort event. How about creating an unique id on sort initialization and use it to name('click.id') events, then provide an destroy method...use the id to remove event listeners and clear rest of the stuff.

The problem that exists now is that without a destroy method, even after you delete the table from the DOM it still remains in the JS memory because of referencing from the plugin.
Here's a bit more info about that: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/profile/memory-problems/memory-diagnosis