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If you are using the [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor|Visual Editor]], you can open the properties dialog of a table and select the sortable option.

=== Simple example ===

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This is the wikitext of the table [[Help:Sortable tables#Example|shown]] in the first section and shows the typical way to enable table sorting:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|-

! name

! data

! more data

|-

| cats

| 273

| 53

|-

| dogs

| 65

| 8,492

|-

| mice

| 1,649

| 548

|}

</syntaxhighlight>

The <code>!</code> indicates cells that are header cells. In order for a table to be sortable, the first row(s) of a table need to be entirely made up out of these header cells. You can learn more about the basic table syntax by taking the [[Help:Table/Introduction to tables|Introduction to tables]] for source editing.

=== Initial sort order of rows ===