Skip to main content
backdrop Backdrop Forum
  • Welcome!
    • Login
    • Register
  • Forum
  • FAQ
  • Following
  • About
  • Wishlist
  1. Home ยป
  2. [UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements

[UX] Provide an option to sort the keys/values of the options select form elements

This is basically to consider improving the option select elements that we've added in Backdrop core v1.12.0 (see #1005) to include the functionality of https://www.drupal.org/project/select_option_sort, which allows sorting the options in the select element by key (if the "Custom keys" checkbox is ticked) or value, and also ascending/descending.

Before: image

After (suggested mockup): image

GitHub Link: 
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/5823
GitHub Issue #: 
5823

Weekly office hours

Bring your questions to our weekly virtual office hours, every Wednesday. Everyone is welcome.

Recent topics

Image manipulation on server?

Posted 2 days 1 hour ago by (ian) in How-To and Troubleshooting

"Hide rewriting if empty" has no effect

Posted 4 days 13 hours ago by (Chrys) in How-To and Troubleshooting

July 31, 2025

Posted 5 days 2 hours ago by (stpaultim) in Weekly Meetings

Recent comments

You can edit images and load them back to the same folder with the same name and extension, this will not create a problem. Replace directly in the file system, without the use of CMS, for CMS...

Posted 1 day 17 hours ago by (Enthusiast) on:

Image manipulation on server?

I was under the impression you could not do that - don't know where I got that idea from... thought it had to do with the way Backdrop manages image files.

Posted 1 day 18 hours ago by (ian) on:

Image manipulation on server?

I think given the warning on the source site: At this time, if your new project can afford to require PHP 5.5+, which it should, please use PHP's native password_hash() /...

Posted 4 days 11 hours ago by Martin Price | System Horizons Ltd (yorkshirepudding) on:

July 31, 2025

Powered by Backdrop CMS

Stay connected

Sign up for our newsletter

Footer Menu

  • documentation
  • localization
  • events
  • forum
  • backdropcms.org