# Turn any table sortable in 20 lines

DevFeed: [Turn any table sortable in 20 lines](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/turn-any-table-sortable-in-20-lines-9027.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://markodenic.tech/turn-any-table-sortable-in-20-lines/>)

Author: Marko

Published: 2026-07-17T12:26:58Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Marko Denic Tech](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/marko-denic-tech.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Sorting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sorting.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

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## AI overview

A concise tutorial showing how to make a plain HTML table sortable with about 20 lines of vanilla JavaScript. It explains moving existing DOM rows, reversing sort direction, parsing numeric values correctly, and falling back to text sorting.

## Source excerpt

Make any HTML table sortable in 20 lines of vanilla JS.