Issue with column sorting!

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias

Hi again, Tobias!

Thank you for such a quick reply, I would love to but the site is part of a intranet and can not be accessed from outside. Sorry..

You haven’t heard of anything like this? just a tip as to what it could be?
I could try to setup a test site but it’ll take time.

Best Regards

Hi,

ah, bummer ?? Unfortunately, I can only make guesses about the cause then ??

Do the entries in the dropdown maybe contain ampersands &, quotation marks ", or HTML code (like HTML code for links)? Those have caused such problems in the past.

Regards,
Tobias

I’m not sure if it’ll help but this is the output I get.
I removed the phone and e-mail information.

<div class="dataTables_wrapper" id="tablepress-5_wrapper">
    <div class="column-filter-widgets">
        <div class="column-filter-widget">
            <select class="widget-4">
                <option selected="selected" value="">Choose a value</option>
                <option value="Test1">Test1</option>
                <option value="Test2">Test2</option>
                <option value="Test3">Test3</option>
            </select>
        </div>
    </div>
    <table style="width: 1080px;" aria-describedby="tablepress-5_info" role="grid" id="tablepress-5" class="tablepress tablepress-id-5 dataTable dtr-inline">
        <caption style="caption-side:bottom;text-align:left;border:none;background:none;margin:0;padding:0;"><a href="https://127.0.0.1/wp/wp-admin/admin.php?page=tablepress&action=edit&table_id=5">Edit</a></caption>
        <thead>
            <tr role="row" class="row-1 odd">
                <th aria-label="Name: activate to sort column ascending" style="width: 88px;" colspan="1" rowspan="1" aria-controls="tablepress-5" tabindex="0" class="column-1 sorting">Name</th>
                <th aria-label="Surname: activate to sort column ascending" style="width: 155px;" colspan="1" rowspan="1" aria-controls="tablepress-5" tabindex="0" class="column-2 sorting">Surname</th>
                <th aria-label="Phone: activate to sort column ascending" style="width: 96px;" colspan="1" rowspan="1" aria-controls="tablepress-5" tabindex="0" class="column-3 sorting">Phone</th>
                <th aria-label="E-mail: activate to sort column ascending" style="width: 331px;" colspan="1" rowspan="1" aria-controls="tablepress-5" tabindex="0" class="column-4 sorting">E-mail</th>
                <th aria-label="Value: activate to sort column ascending" style="width: 270px;" colspan="1" rowspan="1" aria-controls="tablepress-5" tabindex="0" class="column-5 sorting">Value</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tfoot>
            <tr class="row-5 odd">
                <th colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="column-1">Name</th>
                <th colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="column-2">Surname</th>
                <th colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="column-3">Phone</th>
                <th colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="column-4">E-mail</th>
                <th colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="column-5">Value</th>
            </tr>
        </tfoot>
        <tbody class="row-hover">
            <tr role="row" class="row-2 even">
                <td class="column-1">Anders</td>
                <td class="column-2">Karlsson</td>
                <td class="column-3">Phonenumber</td>
                <td class="column-4">E-mail</td>
                <td class="column-5">Test1</td>
            </tr>
            <tr role="row" class="row-3 odd">
                <td class="column-1">Annelie</td>
                <td class="column-2">Larsson</td>
                <td class="column-3">Phonenumber</td>
                <td class="column-4">E-mail</td>
                <td class="column-5">Test2</td>
            </tr>
			<tr role="row" class="row-4 odd">
                <td class="column-1">Anna</td>
                <td class="column-2">Harem</td>
                <td class="column-3">Phonenumber</td>
                <td class="column-4">E-mail</td>
                <td class="column-5">Test3</td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
    <div aria-live="polite" role="status" id="tablepress-5_info" class="dataTables_info">Showing 1 to 10 of 13 entries</div>
    <div id="tablepress-5_paginate" class="dataTables_paginate paging_simple"><a id="tablepress-5_previous" tabindex="0" data-dt-idx="0" aria-controls="tablepress-5" class="paginate_button previous disabled">Previous</a><a id="tablepress-5_next" tabindex="0" data-dt-idx="1" aria-controls="tablepress-5" class="paginate_button next">Next</a></div>
</div>

Tobias, it’s as you said, I created a new table with limited characters and it worked.
I got the Swedish ??? in a few of the columns, could that be the issue?

Edit : ??? was not the issue, still looking into this.

Edit2 : I found it, it was a special character lurking deep down.
Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction!

You’re amazing!
Best Regards

Hi,

ah, now I see! Is the “Search/Filter” feature (checkbox) activated for this table? It’s necessary for the dropdowns to work.

You can then (if desired) hide the actual search text field with “Custom CSS” on the “Plugin Options” screen, like

#tablepress-5_filter {
  display: none;
}

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

oh, looks like you edited your post and added your findings. That special character could also be it. Nice find!

Best wishes,
Tobias