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Secondly, regarding the sorting, you could set the bUseRendered ( http://datatables.net/usage#bUseRendered ) parameter to false for this column such that DataTables will use the original data for sort

You can actually do more or less what you suggest already by making use of the bUseRendered property ( http://datatables.net/usage#bUseRendered ). If you set this to false (it is default true) for you

New (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): Added option for using original data for sorting and filtering (when using fnRender) - bUseRendered ( http://datatables.net/usage#bUseRendered )