This is a documentation subpage for Template:Sort. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Instead of this template, consider using the data-sort-value attribute, like so: | data-sort-value="Doe, John" | John Doe. Please see WP:SORT § Specifying a sort key for a cell for details.

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This template uses Lua: Module:Sort (sandbox)

This template is for manually adjusting sorting order in sortable tables by specified sortkeys.

Usage

{{Sort | 1 = {{{sort value}}} | 2 = {{{displayed value}}} }} → {{{displayed value}}}

The first parameter is the sortkey; the second parameter is the wikitext of what has to be displayed. By default, this is the sortkey with link brackets:

{{Sort | 1 = {{{displayed value}}} }} → [[{{{displayed value}}}]]

A table using this template should use it in all rows.

This template works by adding a hidden sort value, which replaces the value of the visible text for sorting purposes. The HTML output looks like: <span data-sort-value="sortvalue">[[displayed value]]</span>.

|{{Sort|Brothers Karamazov|[[The Brothers Karamazov]]}}

→ |<span data-sort-value="Brothers Karamazov !">[[The Brothers Karamazov]]</span>

Sorting by numerical value, date, etc.

See Help:Sortable tables#Numerical sorting problems and meta:Help:Sorting#Sort modes

Equal rank

If you simply code as the second parameter an indicator that two items are equally ranked, e.g. "4=", the template interpreter will treat this as an additional parameter (i.e. parameter 4, which it will then not use). You must explicitly code this as parameter 2:

{{Sort|4|2=4=}}

• Template:Dsv (backlinks edit) – a shortcut for data-sort-value="foo"
• Template:Sortname (backlinks edit) — for using names in sortable tables (using "last name, first name" as default sort key)
• Template:Date table sorting (backlinks edit) — for using dates in sortable tables
• Template:Number table sorting (backlinks edit) — for using alphabetic sort mode for numbers in sortable tables
• Help:Sortable tables
• meta:Help:Sorting