197953 - Ability to sort table rows in the browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104639

(Core :: Layout: Tables, enhancement)

Description

[Pabs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)
Build Identifier: 

Where HTML tables are used as they should be, not for layout, a great thing 
would be the ability for the user to be able to right-click on a <th> and sort 
all the rows by that column. Tertiary sorting would probably be enough, but 
specifying arbitrary sortings would be good.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Goto http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookAuthoringTools
2.Wish you could sort by the free column, without editing the page
3.Think about reporting a bug

Actual Results:  
I reported this bug

Expected Results:  
Been an operating system

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->Layout

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This could be done, actually, with a simple add-on... not sure that this needs
to be part of the default layout engine, however.  CCing jesse, since I bet he
has a bookmarklet for this or wants to write one.  ;)

Comment 3

[Alex Bishop]

Looks like a duplicate of bug 104639.

Oh, and Jesse does already have a bookmarklet:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html#sort_table

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104639 ***

Comment 4

[Pabs]

That bookmarklet is cool, but can't sort according to multiple columns. Also I 
had thought of implementing it as an entry on a context menu + some tooltips 
for sort order feedback, instead of modifying the table. Either way is OK I 
guess, but I don't think adding another row is the right way to do it, rather 
the up/down things should be part of the header row, either before or after the 
cell content, maybe depending on the horz alignment.