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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

client request is a sort process? No - if you

turning off the default sort would be good enough.

It actually should sort it but the HTML contents, but it will sort it as a string, not numerically. To sort numerically, use this plug-in: http://datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting#numbers_html Allan

Has this been solved? I've spent a lot of time designing a report only to find that datatables cannot sort properly when a cell value has more than one comma.

for the multiple column sort to be different? It

a single-click solution would be ideal. Use aDataSort for that - you can provide as many column indexes as you want to do a multi-column sort automatically on a column click. Allan

the plain value (for sort, type checking and filter).