$.data( table, 'tablesorter', { config: config } );
// Get the CSS class names, could be done elsewhere
- sortCSS = [ config.cssDesc, config.cssAsc ];
+ sortCSS = [ config.cssAsc, config.cssDesc ];
+ // Messages tell the the user what the *next* state will be
+ // so are in reverse order to the CSS classes.
sortMsg = [ mw.msg( 'sort-descending' ), mw.msg( 'sort-ascending' ) ];
// Build headers