Here are jQuery plugins that provide features like sorting, filtering, searching, pagination and even in-line editing for HTML tables.

DataTables

DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, and will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.

tQuery

It makes simple HTML tables dynamic. The script combines power, flexibility and easiness. It offers great design customization, supports multiple formats for column sorting and make exporting and importing data easier.

tablesaw

A group of plugins for responsive tables.

Handsontable

Handsontable is a minimalistic Excel-like data grid editor for HTML, JavaScript & jQuery. It equipped with column and row headers, Autoexpanding, Legend, Autocomplete, Scroll, Drag-down, Context menu, Save features etc.

jTable

jTable is a jQuery plugin that is used to create AJAX based CRUD tables without coding HTML or Javascript.

FooTable

FooTable is jQuery plugin for helping make data tables responsive.

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.

Dynatable

Dynatable is a funner, semantic, interactive table plugin using jQuery, HTML5, and JSON. And it’s not just for tables.

tableclothjs

tablecloth.js is a jQuery plugin that helps you easily style HTML tables along with some simple customizations.

jQuery HighchartTable

jQuery plugins to convert your HTML data tables into fancy Highcharts graphs.

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.

Sticky Table Headers & Columns

The solution is an alternative to other sticky table header approaches and it addresses the overflowing table problem including adding support for biaxial headers.

jQuery ReStable

jQuery ReStable is a very simple and lightweight (~1Kb) jQuery plugin that make tables responsive making them collapse into ul lists.

tableHover

A jQuery plugin to highlight table rows and columns when hovering over them.

List.js

Tiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla Javascript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything.

jQuery Animated Table Sorter

jQuery Animated Table Sorter is a simple html table sorter, with the added benefit of animating the sorting operation.