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Hello all.

I'm sort of a newbe on asp.net. It is common in web apps to show a table of
items of some sort to the user. Some columns contain links to pages where
the user can edit that particular item.

My problem is this: How do you sort on the underlying data (in a dataview),
and not on the complete html text?

This HTML code illustrates the problem. In this case the sorting (ASC) is
done correctly:

<a href="b">Value A</a>
<a href="a">Value B</a>

But when i sort this column (ASC), the order is ofcourse reversed since the
sorting is not done on the underlying data. Any ideas?

Regards,
Björn

Hi Björn,

Suppose you want to sort fieldA (ASC), fieldC (DESC),
you can do it

dataview.Sort = "fieldA ASC, fieldC DESC";

HTH,

Elton Wang


>-----Original Message-----
>Hello all.
>
>I'm sort of a newbe on asp.net. It is common in web apps
to show a table of
>items of some sort to the user. Some columns contain
links to pages where
>the user can edit that particular item.
>
>My problem is this: How do you sort on the underlying
data (in a dataview),
>and not on the complete html text?
>
>This HTML code illustrates the problem. In this case the
sorting (ASC) is
>done correctly:
>
><a href="b">Value A</a>
><a href="a">Value B</a>
>
>But when i sort this column (ASC), the order is ofcourse
reversed since the
>sorting is not done on the underlying data. Any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>Björn
>
>
>.
>