Client-side Table Sorting Using Javascript

<script type="text/javascript">
var sortedOn = 0;

function SortTable(sortOn) {

var table = document.getElementById('results');
var tbody = table.getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0];
var rows = tbody.getElementsByTagName('tr');

var rowArray = new Array();
for (var i=0, length=rows.length; i<length; i++) {
rowArray[i] = new Object;
rowArray[i].oldIndex = i;
rowArray[i].value = rows[i].getElementsByTagName('td')[sortOn].firstChild.nodeValue;
}

if (sortOn == sortedOn) { rowArray.reverse(); }
else {
sortedOn = sortOn;
/*
Decide which function to use from the three:RowCompareNumbers,
RowCompareDollars or RowCompare (default).
For first column, I needed numeric comparison.
*/
if (sortedOn == 0) {
rowArray.sort(RowCompareNumbers);
}
else {
rowArray.sort(RowCompare);
}
}

var newTbody = document.createElement('tbody');
for (var i=0, length=rowArray.length ; i<length; i++) {
newTbody.appendChild(rows[rowArray[i].oldIndex].cloneNode(true));
}

table.replaceChild(newTbody, tbody);
}

function RowCompare(a, b) { 

var aVal = a.value;
var bVal = b.value;
return (aVal == bVal ? 0 : (aVal > bVal ? 1 : -1));
}
// Compare number
function RowCompareNumbers(a, b) {

var aVal = parseInt( a.value);
var bVal = parseInt(b.value);
return (aVal - bVal);
}
// compare currency
function RowCompareDollars(a, b) {

var aVal = parseFloat(a.value.substr(1));
var bVal = parseFloat(b.value.substr(1));
return (aVal - bVal);
}
</script>