Are Sortable Tables Still Doable?

**Mokonzi** · July 23, 2011

I've been trying to get some sortable tables running, and yet everything I've tried so far has failed to make them sortable.

Can you point me in the direction of an existing sortable table that works?

**pegasus** · July 23, 2011

The table needs to be class "sortable",
and it needs to use ! to create table head cells. The th define the sort type for their columns, as any of the following classes:

sorttable_alpha
sorttable_ddmm
sorttable_mmdd
sorttable_nosort
sorttable_numeric
sorttable_sorted
sorttable_sorted_reverse

If no class is defined, I believe it defaults to sorttable_alpha... The headings of the sortable columns become clickable.

Alpha	other	Numeric
A text	other	2 things
B text	other	4 things
C text	other	1 thing

**Mokonzi** · July 24, 2011

Thanks pegasus, that helps a lot, I was wondering about how it all worked...

I'm managed to get one of my own working, so having a play around with the settings a bit.

**popit** · June 10, 2012

I used the code above and my tables in html seem to be converting to BBCODE tables in the wiki vb4
and are not sortable - any ideas?

Code:

[TABLE class="sortable"] [TR] [TD="class: blocksubhead sorttable_alpha"]Alpha[/TD] [TD="class: blocksubhead sorttable_nosort"]other[/TD] [TD="class: blocksubhead sorttable_numeric"]Numeric[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]A text[/TD] [TD]other[/TD] [TD]2 things[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]B text[/TD] [TD]other[/TD] [TD]4 things[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]C text[/TD] [TD]other[/TD] [TD]1 thing[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

**pegasus** · June 10, 2012

vBulletin > 4.1.3 has its own (different) Table BB-Code. If you want to use VaultWiki's instead, you need to enable it in the Wiki Code Manager section of the AdminCP (look for a setting like: Parse this BB-Code is wiki pages / non-wiki posts?)