Fails on one out of four columns

[uahim]

I recently noticed that sorttable fails while trying to sort one out of four columns on this record collection table, namely the "title" column: http://thewilderness.bplaced.net/rc/?q=nolivesmatter
wonder what leads to its' breaking? special characters in one of the table cells?
any help is appreciated, thanks

[stuartlangridge]

It's because sorttable is misdiagnosing that column as containing numbers, because it found a cell with only numbers in it. (Of course, this is a bug, because it should only treat a column as numeric if all the cells in it only contain numbers.) You can work around this and force sorttable to treat the column as alphanumeric as per the overrides instructions by adding class="sorttable_alpha" to the <th> heading the column.

(I'll leave this issue open so that the underlying bug gets fixed, but the workaround will hopefully be useful for now.)

[uahim]

@stuartlangridge thank you for the explanation; class="sorttable_alpha" works fine