# Sort descending with JavaScript API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-descending-with-javascript-api/17861>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 2, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-descending-with-javascript-api/17861 "2014-06-02T16:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![el1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@el1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/el1)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-descending-with-javascript-api/17861/1 "2014-06-02T16:12:13Z")

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This is a syntax question. In my search I want to sort descending on a  
field named 'no'. I tried things like params.sort = "no: {order: 'desc'}"  
or params.sort = "[{'no': {'order': 'desc'}}]" but nothings works. If I  
just specify params.sort = "no" the ascending sort works fine. Can somebody  
give me a hint please?

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**Author:** ![ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticSearch_Users_)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-descending-with-javascript-api/17861/2 "2014-06-02T19:11:37Z")

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Can you try:

```
client.search({
  body: q,
  sort: "no:desc"
});

```

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**Author:** ![el1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@el1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/el1)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-descending-with-javascript-api/17861/3 "2014-06-03T13:54:21Z")

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Great, this works. Thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-descending-with-javascript-api/17861/4 "2017-07-06T01:24:56Z")

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