WAI-ARIA: aria-sort (Property) • Digital A11y

Indicates if items in a table or grid are sorted in ascending or descending order.

Description

Indicates if items in a table or grid are sorted in ascending or descending order.

Authors SHOULD only apply this property to table headers or grid headers. If the property is not provided, there is no defined sort order. For each table or grid, authors SHOULD apply aria-sort to only one header at a time.

Example

Example coming soon

Characteristics

Used in Roles

columnheader
rowheader

Value

token
- One of a limited set of allowed values. An explicit value of undefined for this type is the equivalent of providing no value

ascending
- Items are sorted in ascending order by this column.
descending
- Items are sorted in descending order by this column.
none (default)
- There is no defined sort applied to the column.
other
- A sort algorithm other than ascending or descending has been applied.

Semantic HTML

No HTML element equivalent.

Reference

W3C (opens new window)