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I would try using Orthogonal data like this example. In the columns.render function check to see if the cell value is NaN and return en empty string otherwise return the cell's data. Kevin

orthogonal data - don't. Use columns.render to tell DataTables where

the sort operation using columns.render. For example Mar 4

You can use columns.render to render the input elements you want. See this example. Kevin

in HTMl or using columns.render to render the inputs.

sorting. You can use columns.render to do something similar,

This page here has an interesting discussion showing how to do that in the HTML. And this example demonstrates how to create that HTML in the columns.render. Colin

might need to use columns.render to provide the value

See the column-selector docs for all the options to reference a column. Specifically the string option for class or ID. Kevin

might be to use column().search(), for example: $("#filterTables").click(function () { datatable.column(4).search("1").draw();