function strip_tags (str, allowed_tags) {
    // Strips HTML and PHP tags from a string  
    // 
    // version: 908.406
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/strip_tags
    // +   original by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Luke Godfrey
    // +      input by: Pul
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   bugfixed by: Onno Marsman
    // +      input by: Alex
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: Marc Palau
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   bugfixed by: Eric Nagel
    // +      input by: Bobby Drake
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   bugfixed by: Tomasz Wesolowski
    // *     example 1: strip_tags('<p>Kevin</p> <br /><b>van</b> <i>Zonneveld</i>', '<i><b>');
    // *     returns 1: 'Kevin <b>van</b> <i>Zonneveld</i>'
    // *     example 2: strip_tags('<p>Kevin <img src="someimage.png" onmouseover="someFunction()">van <i>Zonneveld</i></p>', '<p>');
    // *     returns 2: '<p>Kevin van Zonneveld</p>'
    // *     example 3: strip_tags("<a href='http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net'>Kevin van Zonneveld</a>", "<a>");
    // *     returns 3: '<a href='http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net'>Kevin van Zonneveld</a>'
    // *     example 4: strip_tags('1 < 5 5 > 1');
    // *     returns 4: '1 < 5 5 > 1'
    var key = '', allowed = false;
    var matches = [];
    var allowed_array = [];
    var allowed_tag = '';
    var i = 0;
    var k = '';
    var html = '';

    var replacer = function (search, replace, str) {
        return str.split(search).join(replace);
    };

    // Build allowes tags associative array
    if (allowed_tags) {
        allowed_array = allowed_tags.match(/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/gi);
    }

    str += '';

    // Match tags
    matches = str.match(/(<\/?[\S][^>]*>)/gi);

    // Go through all HTML tags
    for (key in matches) {
        if (isNaN(key)) {
            // IE7 Hack
            continue;
        }

        // Save HTML tag
        html = matches[key].toString();

        // Is tag not in allowed list? Remove from str!
        allowed = false;

        // Go through all allowed tags
        for (k in allowed_array) {
            // Init
            allowed_tag = allowed_array[k];
            i = -1;

            if (i != 0) { i = html.toLowerCase().indexOf('<'+allowed_tag+'>');}
            if (i != 0) { i = html.toLowerCase().indexOf('<'+allowed_tag+' ');}
            if (i != 0) { i = html.toLowerCase().indexOf('</'+allowed_tag)   ;}

            // Determine
            if (i == 0) {
                allowed = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if (!allowed) {
            str = replacer(html, "", str); // Custom replace. No regexing
        }
    }

    return str;
}

// add parser through the tablesorter addParser method 
jQuery.tablesorter.addParser({ 
	// set a unique id 
	id: 'price', 
	is: function(s) { 
		// return false so this parser is not auto detected 
		return false; 
	}, 
	format: function(s) { 
		// format your data for normalization 
		s = strip_tags( s );
		return parseInt(s);
	}, 
	// set type, either numeric or text 
	type: 'numeric' 
}); 

jQuery(document).ready(function() { 
	jQuery("table.list-stores").tablesorter({
		sortList: [[2,0]],
		headers: { 
			2: { 
				sorter:'price' 
			} 
		} 
	});
	
	
});