# Help with html\_standard coding
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 2, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572 "2017-12-02T10:26:58Z")
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### Author:  [@treadhead194](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/treadhead194)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572/1 "2017-12-02T10:26:58Z")
I would like to know how to change the coding in the html\_standard export so that a specific column is sorted on, ie: output would be sorted by artist . At the present, at least in my html\_standard output once the html is produced the result is everything all over the place. Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572/2 "2017-12-02T13:48:54Z")
Please have a look at the description of the export scripting.
The sorting criterion is taken from the $loop() statement.
These statement can be nested.
The standard html export loops (sorts) bei %\_filename\_ext% - you probably want to sort by %artist% - and then you probably want to sort by %album% and then %track%.
So instead of a simple
$loop(%\_filename\_ext%)
you need
$loop(%artist%)$loop(%album%,1)$loop(%track%)
and instead of a simple
$loopend()
you need
$loopend()$loopend()$loopend()
to close all loops.
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### Author:  [@treadhead194](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/treadhead194)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572/3 "2017-12-03T00:36:20Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Please have a look at the description of the export scripting.
> The sorting criterion is taken from the $loop() statement.
> These statement can be nested.
>
> The standard html export loops (sorts) bei %\_filename\_ext% - you probably want to sort by %artist% - and then you probably want to sort by %album% and then %track%.
>
> So instead of a simple
> $loop(%\_filename\_ext%)
> you need
> $loop(%artist%)$loop(%album%,1)$loop(%track%)
> and instead of a simple
> $loopend()
> you need
> $loopend()$loopend()$loopend()
> to close all loops.
Not knowing exactly what I'm doing here but hopefully following your instructions, would this be correct?
$loop(%artist%)$loop(%album%,1)$loop(%year%)$loop(%track%)%loop(%\_filename\_ext%)
\$replace(%title%,&,&)
\$replace(%year%,&,&)
\$replace(%artist%,&,&)
\$replace(%album%,&,&)
\$replace(%track%,&,&)
$loopend()$loopend()$loopend()$loopend()$loopend()
I always want somebody to check what I did just to make sure. I don't know after the first if that would be deleted or left as is. Would I be correct in assuming that the placement of each sort item would also be placed on the output html as it is sorted ie:artist, album and so on?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572/4 "2017-12-03T10:23:11Z")
> [@treadhead194](#):
>
> Not knowing exactly what I'm doing here but hopefully following your instructions, would this be correct?
>
> $loop(%artist%)$loop(%album%,1)$loop(%year%)$loop(%track%)%loop(%\_filename\_ext%)
> ...
I would say that an awful lot of looping is going on.
As I am not really sure what you want to achieve, I try to translate what your statement means:
First, arrange all artists alphabetically and run through this loop for each entry for artist - I would use $loop(%artist%,1) which sorts the artists but considers each one only once.
The sort the albums by this artist and consider it only once - which is ok, I think.
Now sort by year - which I do not understand: I would sort either by album or by year. I would leave out year altogether. The loop-instruction to sort has nothing to do with the display of the data.
Then you sort by track and get a list of tracks for one year - is that intended?
and finally you sort by filename which should not be noticable as you probably have unique track numbers anyway. So I would leave that out.
The you mentioned has nothing to do with MP3tag's export instructions but is a html keyword to start a tabel row.
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### Author:  [@treadhead194](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/treadhead194)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572/5 "2017-12-04T12:12:31Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> I would say that an awful lot of looping is going on.
> As I am not really sure what you want to achieve, I try to translate what your statement means:
>
> First, arrange all artists alphabetically and run through this loop for each entry for artist - I would use $loop(%artist%,1) which sorts the artists but considers each one only once.
> The sort the albums by this artist and consider it only once - which is ok, I think.
> Now sort by year - which I do not understand: I would sort either by album or by year. I would leave out year altogether. The loop-instruction to sort has nothing to do with the display of the data.
> Then you sort by track and get a list of tracks for one year - is that intended?
> and finally you sort by filename which should not be noticable as you probably have unique track numbers anyway. So I would leave that out.
>
> The you mentioned has nothing to do with MP3tag's export instructions but is a html keyword to start a tabel row.
Actually I decided to just sort by artist and all that other stuff is gone. I've tried it out and it works just fine. I like to double check my work because I have a habit of screwing something up and I want to catch it. I'm a bit of a perfectionist so if something isn't the way it should be I want it fixed. I appreciate your help and patience. Happy Holidays 😃
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-html-standard-coding/19572/6 "2017-12-04T12:15:44Z")
> [@treadhead194](#):
>
> Actually I decided to just sort by artist and all that other stuff is gone....
It is really a pity that you never said what you actually wanted to achieve.
I mean, if you only sort by artist, you get all the tracks from all the albums in a more or less random order. But as you say that it works just fine ...