Title: Sorting html link text
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# Sorting html link text
* Resolved [sedohr7682](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedohr7682/)
* (@sedohr7682)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-html-link-text/)
* I use 2 or 3 character html link text in one of my cells. The character represent
numeric data (price).
* [http://smoothiemakershq.com/compare-smoothie-makers/](http://smoothiemakershq.com/compare-smoothie-makers/)
* The column will sort on the 1st char of the 2 character ‘value’ and therefore
the column does not sort correctly. At first I thought it was because the cell
has text and therefore is being sorted as a string rather than a numeric.
* However, I have a similar table running on another site that sorts the same type
of data correctly. The only difference is this table has the same # of characters
for each ‘price’.
[http://dysonvacuumreviewdude.com/compare-dyson-models/](http://dysonvacuumreviewdude.com/compare-dyson-models/)
* Does TablePress know a cell contains an html link and therefore sorts based ONLY
on the link text? If so, is the data still considered a string for sorting purposes?
That’s the only thing I can figure out is happening here.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/)
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* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-html-link-text/#post-3574522)
* Hi,
* thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
* You are right. The DataTables JavaScript library does recognize that there’s
HTML code in the cell, and then just sorts with the link text. However, it treats
that as a string and not a number. That leads to to result that you are seeing.
To fix this, please install and activate the TablePress Extension from [http://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-numhtml/](http://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-numhtml/)
After that, add this to the “Custom Commands” text field in the “Features of
the DataTables JavaScript library” section on the “Edit” screen of the table
from [http://smoothiemakershq.com/compare-smoothie-makers/](http://smoothiemakershq.com/compare-smoothie-makers/):
* ```
"aoColumnDefs": [ { "sType": "num-html", "aTargets": [ 2 ] } ]
```
* This will fix the data type for the third column of the table (there’s a 2 in
the code, because counting starts with 0).
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [sedohr7682](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedohr7682/)
* (@sedohr7682)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-html-link-text/#post-3574541)
* Perfect! Thanks Tobias…..
* Just FYI… wanted to give a small token of appreciation (in between jobs right
now but your plugin/support is AWESOME!)but can’t send gift card w/o and email
addy.
* Could not find it anywhere on your donate or amazon wishlist (US) page. ;o(
* Didn’t want to donate via PP and have them remove fees.
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-html-link-text/#post-3574548)
* Hi,
* great to hear that this solved it 🙂
* And thanks for wanting to donate, I really appreciate it! 🙂
For that gift card,
please send me an email to the address that you can see on [http://tablepress.org/imprint/](http://tablepress.org/imprint/)
I will then send you the email address that I prefer for Amazon (because it is
a different one). Thanks!
* Best wishes,
Tobias
* P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
here in the plugin directory. Thanks!
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* [anchor text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/anchor-text/)
* [html links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html-links/)
* [link text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/link-text/)
* [sort](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort/)
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* Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-html-link-text/#post-3574548)
* Status: resolved