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That's sort of my point - you

these two examples and sort of combine the syntax.

over IE for that sort of work. It is

and go to https://datatables.net/extensions/scroller/examples/initialisation/state_saving.html Sort by First Name by

then you lose the sorting icons for display so the user knows they are sorted in x order. So

You are using some sort of templating engine that make it impossible for anyone here to see what's actually happening. Where is the #example table container in your sample?

To hide a column: http://datatables.net/examples/basic_init/hidden_columns.html Then in your "columnDefs": { // Sort column 1 (formatted date) by column 6 (hidden seconds) "orderData":[ 6 ], "targets": [ 1 ] }, Column numbering is entirely up to you of course.

filters that have a sorted list to allow filtering.

Wanted to add - the sort works fine if I also sort the second table by the a +ve column number.

it and DataTables will sort ascending or descending internally.