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But based on your initial comments, it seems like

Unfortunately the initial data is not the

when the page loads initially. The problem I am

a display:none element during initialisation IE is VERY slow.

to load from ajax initially as I didn't want

or setting, just the initialisation as seen below. But

Javascript or JQuery before initializing DataTables on the TABLE.

Thanks for the answer. I need an initial sort order to match the record order provided, while still allowing user requested sorts, post display. Any idea how that can be done?

DataTables features are listed here: http://datatables.net/usage/features . There isn't currently a way of setting the defaults, but what you can do is something like this: [code] $('#example').dataTable( $.extend( {}, defaults, { "bFilter": true } ); [/code] Where 'defaults' is your default initialisation object. Allan

of course, which would initially give the effect you