jquery.align-column.js

/* Copyright (c) 2013 NDP Software, Andrew J. Peterson
 * https://github.com/ndp/align-column
 */
$.fn.alignColumn = function (columns, options) {

  var config = $.extend({}, {
    addedCellClass: 'added',
    skipTHs: true
  }, options);

  if (!jQuery.isArray(columns)) {
    columns = [columns];
  }
  columns = columns.sort().reverse();
  if (config.debug) {
    console.log('Adjusting columns ', columns);
  }

  var splitter;
  if (typeof config.center == 'string') {
    if (config.debug) {
      console.log('Splitting by ', config.center);
    }
    splitter = function (text) {
      var s = text.split(config.center);
      return (s.length == 2) ? [s[0], config.center + s[1]] : [text];
    }
  } else if (jQuery.isFunction(config.center)) {
    if (config.debug) {
      console.log('Splitting using fn');
    }
    splitter = config.center;
  } else {
    if (config.debug) {
      console.log('Splitting using decimal align');
    }
    splitter = function (text) {
      if (!text) return [''];
      var match;
      if (text.indexOf('.') == -1) {
        match = text.match(/^(\S+[\d]+)(.*)$/);
      } else {
        match = text.match(/^([^\.]+)(\..*)$/);
      }
      return match ? [match[1], match[2] || ''] : [text, ''];
    };
  }


  return $(this).each(function () {
    var $table = $(this).css('border-collapse', 'collapse'); // no way around this!
    var $rows = $table.find('tr');
    $rows.each(function () {
      var cells = $(this).find('>td,>th').not('.' + config.addedCellClass).get();
      for (var index = 0; index < columns.length; index++) {
        var colIndex = columns[index],
            $cell = $(cells[colIndex]),
            text = $cell.html(),
            pieces = splitter(text);

        if (config.debug) {
          console.log("Split '" + text + "' into " + pieces.length + " pieces: ", "" + pieces[0], "" + pieces[1]);
        }

        if (pieces.length === 2 &&
            (!config.skipTHs || $cell.get(0).nodeName == 'TD')) {
          if (' ' == pieces[0][pieces[0].length - 1]) {
            pieces[0] = pieces[0].slice(0, pieces[0].length - 1) + '&nbsp;';
          }

          $cell.html(pieces[0]).
              css({textAlign: 'right', paddingRight: 0, borderRight: 'none'});
          $('<td></td>').
              html(pieces[1]).
              css({textAlign: 'left', paddingLeft: 0, borderLeft: 'none'}).
              addClass(config.addedCellClass).
              insertAfter($cell);
        } else {
          $cell.attr('colspan', 2);
        }
      }
    });
  });
};