sorting fails if row contains numbers and letters

[LiamDawe]

Not sure how to best describe it.

Sorting will fail, if any row has a mix of both numbers and letters. It seems to always put those with numbers before anything else. This seems really wrong.

You can see it here: https://imgur.com/a/xNZNGBt

The issue should be obvious.

[stuartlangridge]

It looks like sorttable is misdiagnosing that column as being numeric when it's actually alphanumeric. You can override its automatic column detection as https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/#overrides explains; it might help to change the <th> for the column to <th class="sorttable_alpha"> and see if that helps?

[LiamDawe]

I did think of that and tested it, sorry should have noted, my bad. Sadly, it did not help. No difference in behaviour.

[stuartlangridge]

Can you show me the actual HTML for the table? (A subset which exhibits the problem is fine.) A link to a URL with it in would be useful but if it's still internal or secret then pasting the HTML of the page (or emailing it to me) will let me look at it and work out what's going on.