Below example is for sorting HTML table on ascending and descending order after click on header name. Based on sorting will display ascending and descending images.

Source Code

Copy your ascending and descending images on images folder and change path according to you project configuration.

Sort Table

var order;
function sortTable(col)
{
	changeSortHeaderImage(col);
	//get list of all rows of table content except header
	var rows=$('#employeeTbl tbody tr').get();

	rows.sort(function(a,b){
	var A= $(a).children('td').eq(col).text().toUpperCase();
	var B= $(b).children('td').eq(col).text().toUpperCase();
	//sort in ascending order
	if(order=="asc")
		{
	return (A <b> B) ? 1 : 0);
		}
	//sort in descnding order
	if(order=="desc")
		{
	return (B <a> A) ? 1 : 0);
		}
	});
	//iterate each row of table for changing order
	$.each(rows, function(index, row) {
	    $('#employeeTbl').children('tbody').append(row);
	  });
}
//Change image for column sorting
function changeSortHeaderImage(col)
{	

	var imgArr= document.getElementById("employeeTbl").getElementsByTagName('input');
    var altAtr;
    for (i = 0; i &lt; imgArr.length; i++) {

            altAtr=imgArr[i].getAttribute(&quot;alt&quot;);

              if(i==col &amp;&amp; &quot;asc&quot; == altAtr)
                 {
                    imgArr[i].setAttribute(&quot;src&quot;, &quot;images/desc.png&quot;);
                    imgArr[i].setAttribute(&quot;alt&quot;, &quot;desc&quot;);
                    order=&quot;desc&quot;;
                  }
           else if (i==col &amp;&amp; (&quot;nosort&quot; == altAtr ||  &quot;desc&quot; == altAtr))
                 {
                 imgArr[i].setAttribute(&quot;src&quot;, &quot;images/asc.png&quot;);
                 imgArr[i].setAttribute(&quot;alt&quot;, &quot;asc&quot;);
                 order=&quot;asc&quot;;
                 }
           else
                 {
                 imgArr[i].setAttribute(&quot;src&quot;, &quot;images/nosort.png&quot;);
                 imgArr[i].setAttribute(&quot;alt&quot;, &quot;nosort&quot;);
                 }
           }

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<table id="employeeTbl">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Designation</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Saurabh Gupta</td>
<td>34</td>
<td>Sr Lead</td>
<td>50000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Gaurav Gupta</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>Software Engineer</td>
<td>40000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>Ranjith Kumar</td>
<td>45</td>
<td>Manager</td>
<td>60000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>Sakshi Mehta</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>Trainee</td>
<td>25000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Arun Roi</td>
<td>35</td>
<td>Tester</td>
<td>28000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td>Nitin Verma</td>
<td>40</td>
<td>SEO</td>
<td>55000</td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
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Initial Table Without Soring

Sort in Ascending Order for Column Designation

Sort in Descending Order for column Designation

 Summary

In above example. I try to cover below topics.

• How to create HTML Table with column header and rows column content.
• Apply JQuery and Java Script for sorting ascending and descending order on click each columns.
• On click Change columns header sorting images by Java Script.
• How to apply CSS on table column headers and background image.