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HTML
<title>Sort a HTML Table Alphabetically</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<body>
<p>Click the headers to sort the table.</p>
<p>The first time you click, the sorting direction is ascending (A to Z).</p>
<p>Click again, and the sorting direction will be descending (Z to A):</p>
<table border="1" id="myTable">
<tr>
<!--When a header is clicked, run the sortTable function, with a parameter, 0 for sorting by names, 1 for sorting by country:-->
<th onclick="sortTable(0)">Name</th>
<th onclick="sortTable(1)">Country</th>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
$("#myTable").append("<tr> <td>Berglunds snabbkop</td><td>Sweden</td> </tr><tr><td>North/South</td><td>UK</td></tr><tr><td>Alfreds Futterkiste</td><td>Germany</td> </tr>");
function sortTable(n) {
var table, rows, switching, i, x, y, shouldSwitch, dir, switchcount = 0;
table = document.getElementById("myTable");
switching = true;
//Set the sorting direction to ascending:
dir = "asc";
/*Make a loop that will continue until
no switching has been done:*/
while (switching) {
//start by saying: no switching is done:
switching = false;
rows = table.getElementsByTagName("TR");
/*Loop through all table rows (except the
first, which contains table headers):*/
for (i = 1; i < (rows.length - 1); i++) {
//start by saying there should be no switching:
shouldSwitch = false;
/*Get the two elements you want to compare,
one from current row and one from the next:*/
x = rows[i].getElementsByTagName("TD")[n];
y = rows[i + 1].getElementsByTagName("TD")[n];
/*check if the two rows should switch place,
based on the direction, asc or desc:*/
if (dir == "asc") {
if (x.innerHTML.toLowerCase() > y.innerHTML.toLowerCase()) {
//if so, mark as a switch and break the loop:
shouldSwitch= true;
break;
}
} else if (dir == "desc") {
...