Jill, That is close. It does have two rows of headers. I forgot to mention in my message that of the two headers, only one must be sortable. In the example I gave, the second, bottom most, row must be sortable. Sorry for the confusion. Lorrie On 03/07/11 12:32, Jill Muir wrote: > Lorrie, Is this the kind of table you are after? Pat and Alan Gresley put > their heads together with this one years ago for me. > http://www.kingston-bagpuize.com/area-census/draycott-91.htm > > > Best wishes, > Jill > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of lrlaskey > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 6:16 PM > To: Freepages > Subject: [FreeHelp] sortable tables revisted > > List, > > Some time ago sortable tables was discussed. One method was found at the > following site. > > http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/ > > While it works, it does not allow for multiple rows of headers. It > breaks if more than one row of headers is included in the html code and > the author stated it would require changing the javascript code to do so. > > Has anyone tried modifying the script to allow at least two rows of > headers? The reason a second row of headers is needed is for > clarification of table content. For example, a census index might have > ten columns of data. That would be one row of headers. But, to make it > easier to see groups of data, another row of headers can be placed > before it grouping name and location content for example. See the > example that follows. > > householder address birth > first last city county state year month date > > > Lorrie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >