Set active sort column without actually sorting data?

deathtospam

Is there a way to explicitly set the state of a single column's TH cell, without actually sorting the underlying table data? I'm doing server-side processing: SQL takes care of sorting the data, after which I set the "aaData" property to render in the proper order. The problem is that I need to set the dataTable header to match the column SQL is sorting on, and the visible table data doesn't match the hidden data.

I was hoping I could do something like set the value of "asSorting" (e.g. [2, "desc"]), but which only affects the visible header CSS styles and does -NOT- actually sort the table data. I hope that makes sense...

deathtospam

It's ok to delete or close this discussion... it was an edge case at best.

allan

You'd most likely need to use fnDrawCallback to manipulate the header classes if you wanted to effectively override the classes that DataTables assigns (which it sounds like you want to here).

Allan