Table sort with Searchlogic

Searchlogic comes with a nice rails helper method to assist sorting of your paginated tables

  <%= order @search, :by => :created_at, :as => "Created" %>

You don't even have to do anything extra to your controller to get some nice sorting action. Cool!

Google styling scheme for tables

This is what I implemented after studying the CSS for tables that Google uses.

div.data-table table  {
  background: white none repeat scroll 0 0;
  border-collapse: collapse;
  cursor: default;
  font-family: arial,helvetica;
  font-size: 10pt;
  margin: 0;
}

div.data-table table th {
  background: #FFFFFF url(title-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left bottom;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: center;
  border: 1px solid #EEE;
  padding: 6px;
}

div.data-table table td {
  border: 1px solid #EEE;
  padding: 2px 3px;
}

div.data-table table td.data-seq {
  color: #666;
  text-align: right;
}

div.data-table table tr.data-row-1 td {
  background: #FAFAFA;
}