Learning jQuery - JavaScript Sorting

There are times, though, when we either don't want to wait for server responses when sorting, or don't have a server-side scripting language available to us. A viable alternative in this case is to perform the sorting entirely on the browser using JavaScript client-side scripting.

For example, suppose we have a table listing books, along with their authors, release dates, and prices:

We'd like to turn the table headers into buttons that sort by their respective columns. Let us look into ways of doing this.

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