how to disable click (on column header) event of data sorting but still keep ordering functions?

jsen

Description of problem:
I need to add a click event to column headers for a menu popup, without doing data sorting. The sorting will be done somewhere else in the page. If I use ordering: false, it stops the click event on column headers, but it also stops the functionality of column().order() that needed from other event listeners.
Thanks for your help!

kthorngren

There are a couple options:

1. Create tow headers and use orderCellsTop to place ordering in the top row and your click event for the menu pop up in the second row.
2. Use columns.orderable to turn off the click events but still be ale to order via order() and order.

Kevin

jsen

Answer:
This piece of code orderable: false, solved the problem. Details at following link https://datatables.net/reference/option/columnDefs.targets