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Use aaSorting for initial sort and fnSort to perform a sort. Allan

column and turned off sorting on the 1% width

Thanks a lot hugehugh !! Finally your trick worked for me!! "Error Was:"The Datatables sort icon, on column headers, by default appears under the column header text" ". Regards Kailash Nirmal

a column it doesnt sort. Instead it does nothing.

Yup - no problem. Just set the aaSorting option to be an empty array in the initialisation of your table. That will apply no default sort, but allow the user to sort the table if they want. Allan

plain text) columns wouldn't sort. Perhaps that should be

Does aaSorting support custom sorts? Yes :-). As long as your content can be sorted correctly (for which you might need a sorting plug-in in this case), aaSorting can do a multi-column sort. Allan

You'd use aaSorting to define the default sort column. Allan

With server-side processing. Just make sure that your SQL can do a numeric sort on the data. That's nothing to do with DataTables itself. Allan

So I set the col "bSortable": false. But the sort icon still visible in the table header. That shouldn't happen, and it doesn't in this example: http://live.datatables.net/ixegal/edit#javascript,html Please link to a test case where it is in error. Allan