sType html and then numeric/date/string

owenrichard

Is it possible to use a combined sType of html and then numeric, date or string?

I.e. I have numeric, date, and string columns in my table, but all of them are surrounded by tags. Is it possible to strip the tags first and then define a type of either numeric, string, or date?

Thanks,
Richard

allan

Hi Richard,

It's not possible to combine types, but it's certainly possible to do what you are looking for - just in a slightly different manner - using the sorting plug-ins:

- Plug-ins: http://datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting
- Example use: http://datatables.net/examples/api/sorting_plugin.html
- Dev docs: http://datatables.net/development/sorting

There is already a plug-in (and a type-detection plug-in I added for it yesterday) for HTML with numbers. And there is a bunch of other plug-ins for sorting various other data types.

Regards,
Allan

owenrichard

Thank you very much Allan, it's working great now.

Richard

msanders

I've been trying to do likewise but can't find the example use (404 link). I'd like to strip out html on columns then sort by uk date and european number on those columns.
I've been to the working links above but can't get past the final hurdle here.

Regards,
Martin