Please help with HTML ?

Question

I need to alphabetize the companies on this website http://www.ou.edu/career/SalaryStatistics/Hired/Majors/Accounting.html . Notice that only the first column is employers and the other two columns are information about that employer. I need to sort by the first column.

Is there an easy way to do this with HTML??

Any advise is greatly appreciated as I have to do this for every single major.

Answer 1

You can't do that with HTML.  HTML is a static markup language.  All it can do is say this image goes here or this text goes there, but it can't sort or move your data for you.  If you design a page in HTML, it will look exactly the same every time you view it.

In order to get dynamic functionality such as sorting a list, you need to use a dynamic language such as PHP or ASP.  In your case, it looks like you want your page to interact with a database.  So you will want to learn SQL (a database language).  You will use PHP or ASP to interact with the SQL, which will then talk to the database and send its (sorted) data back to the php or asp code, which will then generate HTML code to match the data.

So in summary: learn SQL.  Then learn ASP (if your server runs on Microsoft IIS) or PHP (if your server runs on something else).

Answer 2

I can help you to alphabetize you list, using php & mySQL.

If you want me to work with you, you can send an email to me via Yahoo! Answers.