Sorting select filter numbers as numbers not strings

silkspin

I'm guessing there must be an example of this somewhere but I can't find one. I want to sort numbers in a select input filter by either ascending or descending. In this example the salary sorts as a string and not numerically by value.

https://datatables.net/examples/api/multi_filter_select.html

Is this possible?

kthorngren

You can perform your own custom sorting. You can use a function with the sort() API to customize the sort. Here is an example:
http://live.datatables.net/fapavaho/1/edit

It calls the custom function if processing the Salary column.

Kevin

silkspin

Thanks very much @kthorngren, that is fantastic! It was a bit more complicated than I had expected. I thought something might've already been built in to handle it, but your test works great.