jQWidgets jqxGrid sortby() Method

Last Updated : 30 Mar, 2023

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 sortby() method is used to sort the data of the displayed jqxGrid. It does not returns anything.

Syntax:

$('#Selector').jqxGrid('sortby', 'dataField', 'sortOrder');

Parameters:

dataField: It is the stated datafield of the column, which is of type string.
sortOrder: It is the stated sorting order, which is of type string. The value for the sort order can be asc, desc, or null.

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 sortby() 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 sortby() 
            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 < 7; 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", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                sortable: true, 
                height: "220px", 
                width: "230px", 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "180px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                $('#jqxg').jqxGrid('sortby',  
                      'subjectnames', 'desc'); 
                $("#log").html( 
     "First column is sorted in descending order!"); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>