Disable table sorting with className

arathael

Hi there, i know it is posible to disable sorting on a per-column basis with classNames. Now, can i disable table sorting (bSort) only for matching elements (.no-sort) or something?

I was hoping something like:

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$('.table-records').dataTable({
"bSort": ( $(this).hasClass('dont-sort-this-one-please') ) ? false : true,
});
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Thanks in advance.

dreamer79

Hmmm. I use this approach:

[code]

var ocols=[];

$('#example').find('thead').each(function(i1,v1){
ocols= [];
$(v1).find('th').each(function(i2,v2){
var at=$(v2).attr('nosort'); //or just use $(v2).hasClass('nosort') in if
if (typeof at!='undefined'&&at!=null&&at!=''&&at!='0'){
ocols[ocols.length]= {
"bSortable": false
};
} else {
ocols[ocols.length]= null;
}
});

$('#example').dataTable({aoColumns= ocols});

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allan

I think your general approach looks absolutely fine, but the execution scope of the DataTables initialiser is not the element - thus 'this' in the context you have it will not be picking up the table element. I think you want something like this:

[code]
$('#example').dataTable({
"bSort": ( $('#example').hasClass('dont-sort-this-one-please') ) ? false : true,
});
[/code]

I see from your initialisation you had a multiple class selector - I presume you are trying to initialise multiple DataTables at the same time? That's absolutely fine, but they all get the same initialisation object - you would need to create a small function to build the init object on an element by element basis if you want that.

Allan