How to prevent initial sorting

palos

I would like have a table with normal sorting if a column is selected, but upon initial page load I would like to display the table as is. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

allan

Hi Palos,

You can do what you are trying to achieve by passing in an empty array as the 'aaSorting' initialisation parameter. For example:

[code]
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').dataTable( {
"aaSorting": [ ]
} );
} );
[/code]

Allan

archimede

I tried this tip but I get an "undefined" error at the following line:

iDataSort = oSettings.aoColumns[ aaSort[aaSort.length-1][0] ].iDataSort;

This is my code:

[code]$(document).ready(function() {
oTable=$('#test').dataTable( {
"aaSorting": [ ], // Prevent initial sorting
"aoData": [
{ "sType": "html" },
null,
null,
],
"sPaginationType": "full_numbers"
});
});[/code]

What am I doing wrong?

TIA.

Alessandro

allan

Hi Alessandro,

Are you using the latest version of DataTables? 1.5 beta 7 (or 1.4.3 if you want to stick to the 1.4 series). There was a bug a while back where you couldn't set an empty sort - but it shouldn't be a problem any more.

Allan

archimede

Upgrading to 1.4.3 fixed it.

Thanks a bunch!

Regards.

Alessandro