Dates not sorting correctly when wrapped in anchor tags (simple test cases included)

sbest

I'm having trouble with sorting of dates inside anchor tags. Based on the documentation, I thought that the HTML tags would automatically be removed before parsing/sorting. This seems to be the case for numeric values -- I've had no issues with numeric sorting on the same table.

Here's an example with HTML, sorted incorrectly: http://live.datatables.net/cagebeja/1/

Without HTML, sorted correctly: http://live.datatables.net/pikepono/1/

The date format I'm using parses correctly:

Date.parse("9/23/2014 9:44:44 AM") < Date.parse("9/23/2014 3:46:21 PM")
//true

Note that these are both sorted descending, so they should be ordered with the PM date at the top. Is this feature not supported for dates, or am I doing something wrong?

sbest

I was able to fix the problem pretty easily after reading over the Orthogonal data section by adding the "render" option to columns and returning a sorting value.