Default Sort on a Certain Letter?

buildakicker

I have a table of data shown by parsing xml. I would like it to sort by default on a certain letter. Is that possible?

For example by default, regardless of how the xml has the info, I'd like the table to start with all the U words at the top.

If there is some documentation on this, that would be great... or any ideas.

Thanks
Jason

tangerine

The aaSorting parameter will determine which column is to be sorted on initialisation.
http://datatables.net/ref

allan

I think you'd need to define a sorting plug-in which would apply the exact sorting you want - http://datatables.net/development/sorting . Most plug-ins sort alphabetically, so you would need to provide the logic for your own sorting.

Allan

buildakicker

Thanks for the replies. I am looking for the sorting plug-in... i'll try and get some logic in there and make something work. Thanks Allan :)