Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table. But in this post will share best useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table.

These plugins help you to create superb tables which are easy to code for you and easy to understand for your readers.

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1. uiTableFilter

jquery plugin for filtering table rows.

2. Scrollable HTML Table

Convert a simple table into scrollable.

3. Tablesorter

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

4. jExpand

jExpand is ultra lightweight jQuery plugin that will make your tables expandable. Typical for line of business applications, this feature can help you organize tables better. This way, tables can hold more information such as images, lists, diagrams and other elements.

5. Fixed Header Tables

Fixed Header Tables takes valid table HTML and builds a fixed header as done in Microsoft excel and a scrolling body with optional footer.

6. jQTreeTable

Using this jQuery plugin, you will have a cute treeview in your table.

7. jQuery ColumnManager plugin

Toggle visibility columns using a cool collapsing and expanding effects.

8. Table Pagination

This is used to create a pagination element under a table element.

9. Flexigrid

Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.

10. BI Grid

BI Grid is designed to present your data, especially in the reports for enterprises. It would be able to edit data easily, drill down to details easily and ajax enabled.

11. jQuery TableRowCheckboxToggle

Add a toggle checkbox to any rows.

12. uiTableEdit

This is another jQuery table plugin that makes the table editable by users.

13. ColumnHover

Highlight whole columns in a table when hovering over them.

14. Chromatable

Easily create scrolling tables with fixed headers.

15. jQuery charToTable plugin

With this plugin you can convert characters to tables using jQuery.

16. Alternate Plugin

Assign alternating class names to selected elements to allow CSS assignment of colors or other styles of your choice. Excellent plugin for alternating row colors in tables! As a bonus, it will assign a “hover” class to elements if you set hover:true.

17.Animated Sortable

Have a nice pagination, animated scrolling.

18. FireScopeGrid

Adds datagrid behavior to your HTML tables.

19. kiketable.rowsizable

Resize the rows of a table over a handler/helper.

20. Add Table Rows Count

This plugin automatically adds a column with row count. Thus making your tables more readable and keeping your markup/metadata clean.

21. GraphTable

graphTable provides the ability to graph.

22. HeatColor

HeatColor is a plugin that allows you to assign colors to elements, based on a value derived from that element.  The derived value is compared to a range of values, either determined automatically or passed in, and the element is assigned a “heat” color based on its derived value’s position within the range.

23. jQuery treeTable

jQuery treeTable is similar with JQTreeTable, which is able to display a tree in a table. This plugin keeps the HTML documents clean and will degrade nicely when Javascript is disabled in the browser.

24. CSV2Table

CSV2Table will load a CSV file and creates a table with contents from the CSV files.

25. Animated Sortable Data Table jQuery plugin – jTPS

jTPS is a datatable jQuery plugin that offers pagination, animated scrolling through pages and intelligent natural sorting capability. The development version is currently 15KB.

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