Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Unobtrusive Table Sort Script can sort dates (dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd formats accepted), currency values (£, $, €, ¥ and ¤), numbers/floats and plain-text (sorted in a case-insensitive manner). It also enables zebra striping the table rows and highlighting the currently sorted column. All table column s are sortable. You can implement your own sort function easily if you would like to. The table looks really nice as well.

Requirements: Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/table-sort-revisited/
License: Creative Commons License

DhtmlxGrid is a Ajax-enabled JavaScript grid control that provides professional solution for representing and editing tabular data on the web. DhtmlxGrid allows easy implementation of nice looking (managed through css or predefined skins) DHTML tables with rich in-cell editing, fixed multiline headers/footers, resizable, sortable and draggable columns. Numerous event handlers let you add necessary interactivity to grid-based interfaces. Smart Rendering technology and built-in paginal output allow this data grid to work effectively with huge datasets.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla 1.4+, FireFox 0.9+, Safari 2.0+
Demo: http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxGrid/
License: GPL License

TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting by clicking on the headers, column resizing by draging the edge of the cells, and cell editing simply by double-click. All the actions are instant, no page refresh is needed.

Requirements: Any Modern
Demo: http://www.millstream.com.au/upload/code/tablekit/
License: License Free