Preserve cell style when sorting a column

Irgi

Sorting a column, the background of the cells in the colum is automatically highlighted which overwrites the style I assigned to the cells before sorting. Removing the order-column class for the table works to disable this for the whole table. How can I avoid the automatic styling of the cells in the sorted column for a particular column?
Thanks,
Irgi

kthorngren

This example may help:
http://live.datatables.net/digeseka/1/edit

Notice the > .sorting_1 to include the style for the sorted column(s). Even though its a hover example it may help with your question.

Kevin