Disable user ordering, retain programatic ordering

fsld

In 1.10.6, the option ordering: false completely disables ordering: it disables click-to-order on column headers, but it also ignores the order and orderFixed options, as well as the order() functions.

I have this code:

// ...
ordering: false,
orderFixed: [[12,'asc'],[1, 'asc']],
paging: false,
info: false,
// ...

And the second line orderFixed is being ignored.

Is there a way to just disable the 'click-to-order' functionality, but still have the other functions work?

allan

Use the columns.orderable option to disable user ordering on a column but retain its programmatic ability to be ordered: http://live.datatables.net/dulayiju/1/edit .

This is an area I really need to refine a bit more in DataTables!

Allan

fsld

Thanks for the reply, Allan! That is indeed the solution I landed on at the end of the day yesterday. I think my confusion was made even worse by the optional datatables.bootstrap stylesheet, which seems to show the reordering buttons more often than the default. I can't confirm it, though. I wound up copying that css into my own stylesheet and removing some rules to suit my purposes.