jQWidgets jqxGrid getsortinformation() Method

Last Updated : 13 Oct, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxGrid is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that shows data in tabular form. Moreover, it renders full support for connecting with data, as well as paging, grouping, sorting, filtering and editing.

The getsortinformation() method is used to return the sorted information. It does not has any parameter. It returns an object.

Syntax:

var sortinformation = $('#Selector').jqxGrid('getsortinformation');

Returns the sorted column.

var sortcolumn = sortinformation.sortcolumn;

Returns the sorted direction.

var sortdirection = sortinformation.sortdirection;

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jqxGrid getsortinformation() method in jQWidgets.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
        "jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"></script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxGrid getsortinformation() method</h3> 
        <br /> 
  
        <div id="jqxg"></div> 
  
        <div> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                style="margin-top: 25px;" 
                value="Click here" /> 
        </div> 
  
        <div id="log"></div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var d = new Array(); 
            var subjectNames = ["C++", "Scala",  
                "Java", "C", "R", "JavaScript"]; 
  
            var pageNumber = ["7", "8", "12", "11", "10", "19"]; 
            for (var j = 0; j < 5; j++) { 
                var r = {}; 
                r["subjectnames"] = subjectNames[ 
                    Math.floor(Math.random() * subjectNames.length)]; 
  
                r["pagenumber"] = pageNumber[ 
                    Math.floor(Math.random() * pageNumber.length)]; 
                d[j] = r; 
            } 
            var src = { 
                localdata: d, 
                datatype: "array", 
                sortcolumn: "subjectnames", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "100px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "140px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                height: "220px", 
                width: "230px", 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "100px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                var si = $("#jqxg").jqxGrid("getsortinformation"); 
                var sc = si.sortcolumn; 
                $("#log").html("Sorted_column: " + sc); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 