mRender called multiple times

silverjp1

Hi
can someone explain to me why the function defined for the mRender property is
called multiple times per row?
As you can see here:
http://jsfiddle.net/6JCH2/13/

fnRowCallback and fnCreatedCell are called the exact number of times (3) while
the function defined by mRender is called multiple times per row

I was using fnRender for this and it was functioning as expected, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

allan

Yes, it is called multiple times because it can be used to get different data types (i.e. sort, filter, display etc data). It is intentional that mRender will be called whenever DataTables needs some data from your data source.

Allan

silverjp1

Thanks for the quick reply, which has been really helpful.
Adding sType:'string', bSearchable:false , bSortable:false solved the problem
also removed fnCreatedCell (which was added only for debugging) and added one call

http://jsfiddle.net/6JCH2/14/

Thanks, again.