Can’t sort table

  • Resolved Boldt

    (@enso)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    I installed the DataTables Sorting plugin but I can’t sort the tables I enabled sorting on. It happens with every browser I tried.

    The demo table on the TablePress sorts properly.

    I checked the documentation and I didn’t find anything that would cause it. I changed to TwentySeventeen theme and disabled the only other plugin (Gutenberg) that I have installed without any effect. The WordPress version of jQuery is being loaded.

    I’m using the latest versions of WordPress, TablePress, and DataTables Sorting.

    Table Head Row is checked.

    The “sorting” class is not applied to the <th> tags. I did change the priority of my style.css to load after TablePress css, but undoing that didn’t make any difference.

    There’s no output from WP_DEBUG.

    The only thing I see is a JS error in jquery.datatables.min.js in function GA:

    TypeError: i is undefined

    The statement is:

    i._DT_CellIndex = {row: b, column: l};

    But this is present whether or not DataTables Sorting is enabled.

    Could developing using localhost be causing it?

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Does your table maybe have #colspan# or #rowspan# in it? Those are not compatible to the DataTables JS library, which requires that all rows have the same number of cells.

    If that’s not it, there’s most likely a cell in your table that contains invalid HTML. In particular, there will be a " missing somewhere.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Boldt

    (@enso)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Tobias,

    Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, the table has a #colspan#. I didn’t think about that as a possible explanation.

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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