diff --git a/horizon/static/horizon/js/horizon.tables.js b/horizon/static/horizon/js/horizon.tables.js
index cd93f8282d..b8a5dd9e14 100644
--- a/horizon/static/horizon/js/horizon.tables.js
+++ b/horizon/static/horizon/js/horizon.tables.js
@@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ $.tablesorter.addParser({
     // innertext smashed together with no delimiters, so we need to find
     // the original cell and grab its first element to do the work
     var a = $(cell).find('li').first().text().split('.');
+    // if the cell doesn't contains the list, try to get the text directly
+    if (a === "") {
+        a = $(cell).text().split('.');
+    }
     if (a.length !== 4) {
       return false;
     }
@@ -323,6 +327,10 @@ $.tablesorter.addParser({
   format: function(s, table, cell) {
     var result = 0;
     var a = $(cell).find('li').first().text().split('.');
+    // if the cell doesn't contains the list, try to get the text directly
+    if (a === "") {
+        a = $(cell).text().split('.');
+    }
     var last_index = a.length - 1;
     // inet_aton(3), Javascript-style.  The unsigned-right-shift operation is
     // needed to keep the result from flipping over to negative when suitably