Tuesday, February 5, 2008

TableTools for Firefox

TableTools is a Firefox extension that lets you sort, filter or copy HTML tables on the Web. For example, if you come across a Web table that isn't sorted alphabetically and doesn't give you the option to sort, you can right click on the table, choose the sort option from the TableTools menu, and it sorts the table in place, automagically, without leaving the Web page or having to cut and paste into a spreadsheet or other software. You can also filter Web tables : TableTools adds dropdown menus to the top of a table, allowing you to filter by terms in any of the columns. You also choose to copy the filtered tables as tab-delimited text or HTML to other programs. TableTools can't handle everything, though. The download site notes it has trouble with more complex tables, such as tables that are nested.

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