Custom html in TD's without messing with sorting?

afflicto

Hi there. First of all I love this plugin!

I have a lot of 3 Weeks ago kind of stuff in my columns (td's).
This messes up sorting.

Any way to tell my datatable: "Hey, THIS is my custom content, HERE is the actual value."?

Thanks in advance!

allan

You want it to sort on only the `3 Weeks ago` presumably? Or doe you want a proper temporal sort on the title attribute? For the former, that should just automatically work - if it doesn't please submit a test case showing the problem. For the latter, you need to use a plug-in that will read the title attribute and sort by date.

Allan

afflicto

HI there allan. Actually I'd like it to sort on the fully formatted datetime string. (Which works great)
It would be nice to say .dataTable('valueGetter', 6, function() {return $(this).find('span').attr('title'))});
Where I could register a function to run when datatable requests to get th value of column 6. or something :P

allan

Hah - I'm going to working on some like along those lines today in fact :-).

For the moment you could use the hidden title sorting plug-in (which basically does do that, but isn't a particularly slick solution): http://datatables.net/plug-ins/sorting#hidden_title

Allan