Natural sorting as default sorting

buelentx

Hello everbody,

I have a page with 4 datatables.
How can I set natural sorting ( " type: 'natural' '') as default sorting for all columns.

Thanks.

Best Regards
Buelentx

rf1234

You can set defaults and make them dependent on the page you are on. Since there is a page refresh every time the user changes the page this works. I use this to set different defaults if the user changes the language of the site.

Something like this

If (onMySpecialNaturalSortingPage) {
   $.extend( true, $.fn.dataTable.defaults, {
      columnDefs: [
           { type: 'natural', targets: '_all'  }
       ]
    } );
}

Since I don't use natural sorting myself I cannot guarantee that this works. Maybe give it a try?!

allan

I think you might need to use:

If (onMySpecialNaturalSortingPage) {
   $.extend( true, $.fn.dataTable.defaults, {
      column: {
           type: 'natural'
      }
    } );
}

I'm not sure that you can use columnDefs in the defaults. I'll need to check into that...

Allan