Soting not sorting data cells with links

euangreen

Hi, great plugin, have only scratched the surface of it's potential!

I've created a list, very standar two column layout. I've added sorting to the table but when I sort the data in the first column does not sort correctly. IN some of the cells of the first column there are hrefs, and it seems these get added to the top of the list, regardless of what the value within the href is.
At it's most basic here's what's happening, imagine each row is the contents of a table cell in the column

m
a
b
c
d

Is there a filter I have to apply to amke sure it ony reads the contents within the href tag?

Thanks for any help

Euan

allan

Hi Euan,

What you need to do is tell DataTables that that column should strip html tags before sorting. Here is the example: http://datatables.net/examples/example_html_sort.html

One other thing, just from completeness I presume your html should be m?

Allan

euangreen

Hi Allan,

Thanks for that, just what I was looking for.

Euan

zirconx

I was looking to solve this same problem, just thought I would update this thread with the correct link. The one referenced above is broken.

http://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/html_sort.html