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a column to allow sorting by that data point.

navigation of the table (sorting, paging, and filtering) by

display length, filtering and sorting. When this initialisation option

where filtering, paging and sorting calculations are all performed

to add or remove sorting of individual columns can

which must always be sorted upon first - a priority

indicates the level of sorting when mutli-column sorting. If

column is currently being sorted on, or is sortable. The only thing is,

points to consider: the sorting and paging controls of

At times you may wish to change the default ordering direction sequence for columns (some or all of them) to be 'descending' rather than DataTables' default ascending. This can be done through the use of the columns.orderSequence initialisation parameter. This parameter also allows you to limit the ordering to a single direction, or you could add complex behaviour to the ordering interaction. The example below shows: Column 1 - default ordering Column 2 - default ordering Column 3 - ascending ordering, followed by no ordering Column 4 - descending ordering, followed by ascending and then no ordering Column 5 - descending ordering only Column 6 - default ordering It's worth noting that I don't have a good use case for when you might what to mix such complex ordering behaviour into a single table, but the example shows how these options can be used and therefore applied across all columns!

specify then it can sort that column using that

Thank you! I was able to find the issue, which was some style overrides we had in our main application.css stylesheet. I was able to remove the extra sort arrows as a result. Thanks for your help!

and unbind the DataTables sort listener from the th,

You would use orthogonal data for that sort - as it the sort criteria is different to the display string. This example should get you going - it's showing how the ordering can be treated differently, Colin

the server-side script to sort the data. If you

that column is being sorted. If you comment this out you will see that sorting works the first time

option on search and sort? They both coexist and

complex options for date sorting, I present a hidden

intuitive especialy when no sort. I still prefer the

contains an option for sorting: order: [[1, "asc"]] // sorts in ascending order by