How to use the "sortable" and "sorted" attributes in tables?

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Sipo picture Sipo · Mar 13, 2014 · Viewed 20.7k times · Source

I recently saw in the W3Schools html tags reference two attributes I don't quite understand. The first is the <table sortable="sortable"> attribute, and the second is <th sorted="sorted"> attribute.

According to W3Schools, the sortable attribute description is:

Specifies that the table should be sortable

And the description for the sorted attribute is:

Defines the sort direction of a column

And the values the sorted attribute accept are:

reversed
number
reversed number
number reversed

I tried to follow the W3C documentation here about how to use those attributes but it doesn't works for me.

I would be very thankful for an answer. Thank you.

Answer

X. Liu picture X. Liu · Jul 13, 2016

In 2016, the table sorting model (including "sortable" and "sorted" attributes) was completely removed from HTML5.1 draft, due to lack of implementations.

Reference: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/56

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