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Advanced Element Sorting ❺

Sort Webflow's collection list items any way you like

Overview

Webflow's collection lists offer a native sort functionality, however it has a number of limitations;

  • Alphabetic sorting is unicode-based and sorts uppercase and lowercase letters as separate ranges

    • Apple, Banana, aardvark...

  • No ability to sort on Ref fields

  • No ability to sort on Option fields

  • No ability to sort nested collection list items

  • No locale-aware sorting ability

  • No ability to sort content in fields within an item in a de-normalized field structure

    • e.g. fields like "Faq 1", "Faq 1 description", "Faq 2", "Faq 2 description"

  • Random sorting only changes the order every 12 hours

SA5 Advanced sort allows to do sort in all of these scenarios.

  1. Sort any elements, in any part of your page

  2. Sort intelligently by data type - text, date, numbers, or even semver version numbers

  3. Sort ascending, descending or randomly, on every page refresh

  4. Sort by page locale ( for localized sites ) or browser locale

Demonstrations

LogoCollection Lists
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LogoWebflow Smart Elements - WebflowWebflow Smart Elements
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LogoSort by Option or Ref
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LogoSort Collection Lists by OPTION or REF Fields - WebflowSort Collection Lists by OPTION or REF Fields
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LogoSorting by Option Field | Webflow CMS & Collection Lists | Sygnal-USygnal Technology Group
Tutorial

Locale-specific sorting;

LogoSA5 Advanced Sorting
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LogoSA5 HTML Library - WebflowSA5 HTML Library
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Getting Started

  1. First, add the library as detailed in Quick Start.

  2. Apply wfu-sort and configuration attributes to the elements you want to filter

  3. Optional. Change the default sort type ( string ) and order ( ascending ), using the wfu-sort-dir and wfu-sort-type attributes.

  4. Optional. Use the wfu-sort-key to define your item sort key

Usage Notes

Sorting is configured on two sets of elements- the parent element, which contains the list of things you are sorting, and the item elements, which are the elements being sorted.

In the case of a Collection List, the parent is the Collection List element ( not the Collection List Wrapper ), and the item is the Collection List Item element. These are the bottom two purple elements you see in a collection list element hierarchy.

If you are not sorting a collection list, any parent-item set can be configured for sorting.

wfu-sort attribute

Required. Place this attribute on the parent element, to indicate it will be sorted. No value is needed.

wfu-sort-dir attribute

Optional. Sort direction defaults to ascending. If you want to specify the direction, add this attribute with a value of;

  • asc for ascending ( default )

  • desc for descending

  • random for random ( on every page refresh )

Place this attribute on the parent element.

wfu-sort-type attribute

Optional. Sort type always defaults to string-based sorting ( an alphanumeric sort ). If you want to specify the data type of the field being sorted, add this attribute with a value of;

  • string to sort as strings ( default )

  • number to parse sort as numbers

  • date to parse and sort as dates

  • semver to parse and sort as semantic versions **

Defaults to string when unspecified or unrecognized.

Place this attribute on the parent element.

Note that this library does not currently have any localization configurations, so sorting in non-English locales may not work as expected.

semver sorting is a simplified numeric-only implementation of the sort rules. It is not designed to handle alphanumerics, such as pre-release identifiers.

wfu-sort-locale attribute

Optional. Allows you to apply locale-specific sorting to a list.

EXPERIMENTAL Currently implemented on ascending string sorting only.

  • none ( default ) - No locale-specific sorting applied

  • auto - Locale is determined from the HTML lang attribute, which is automatically set in Webflow Localized sites

  • ( language / locale code ) - You can specify a specific language code like en or locale code like en-US

Place this attribute on the parent element.

wfu-sort-key attribute

The value to sort by is known as the sort key, and is specified as the value of the wfu-sort-key attribute. This gives you complete control over the field that is being used for sorting, and you can use dynamic or static content.

Place this attribute on the item element.

The most common way to set the value of this field is to pull the content directly from your associated CMS item. To do that, use Webflow's custom attribute CMS binding feature to insert whatever field you want to use as the sort key for that item.

Future

Future features we're considering...

  • Secondary and tertiary sorting, where additional sorting rules are applied when two items are considered sort-equivalent.

  • Script-defined sorting, where the rules override what the attributes define.

  • Custom sorting rules, handled by a callback.

  • Script-triggered re-sorting, triggerable by script.

    • Used for e.g. a dropdown of multiple sort configs.

  • Memory of past sort settings

  • Option to re-init IX2

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