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to keep the selected sort from changing and I

Another way I could do this would be capturing the click before the sort happens and ignore it. Is there a callback before the table sort takes place that I could drop if the table is this "unsortable" state?

That works, but the remaining question is how to apply a sort to the table redraw, in the case that the instantiation has order:[ ] and the redraw then wants a sort applied. Thanks for the quick response sir!

each data point being sorted, per sort. Consider for example the

should give all columns sort icons. Also make sure

conflicting with the moment sort I was trying to

What code are you using to sort the table? Simply adding order: [[ 9, 'asc' ]] to your initialisation should work. Allan

Hi jjacob, please take a look at the ultimate date/time sorting blog post. It explains in detail how to sort with moment.js

To get the current sort state you use table.fnSettings().aaSorting

It's because it defaults to sort by the first column. Add .DataTable({ order: [[indexOfDefaultSortColumn, "asc"]] }); to explicitly tell it to order by another column