Disable Sorting for Certain Columns

emkayy

Hello!
Is there a way to disable the sorting function for certain columns?
I have a column with checkboxes only and one with some other content
on which sorting just doesn't make sense!

Maybe the API provides a solution for that!? However, I couldn't find
anything. I also wonder why no one had the problem yet in the forum.

Does anyone have a solution for that? Even if it's a "hack" ;)

Any help is very much appreciated!

Thanks!

allan

Hi emkayy,

This is available in the documentation: http://datatables.net/usage/columns#bSortable .

As a little aside, it is actually possible to sort on checkboxes as well: http://datatables.net/examples/api/dom_sort.html ;-)

Regards,
Allan

emkayy

Hey!
Thank you very much! Why did I never see the usage section?

That's very cool! ;)