How can I do sort an HTML table using a button?

Question

Actually I have a table in which I have fetched the records from the database, and am intending to do the sorting for the records.

"My intention is to have a small button near the headers of the table and whenever I click that button then the records should get sorted".

I am providing a piece of Perl code here which can make the things more clear of what am I up to:

 print "<th >$sth->{NAME}->[0] <input type=\"submit\" name=\"Id\" 
      value=\"v\"></th>"; 

Here the button would look like "v" and whenever I click that button then it should sort and the button would look like "^".

Can I make such an interface and sort the records?

Answer 1

The best way to do this is probably on the client side. In which case it becomes a Javascript question rather than a Perl one. I'd be surprised if jQuery didn't make this incredibly easy.