datatables momentjs sorting issue

danielvianna

Hello Alan,

I am facing an issue when I tried to use moment.js to sort a column.

ideally, we have 3 columns, the middle column is a combination of an image, text, and date.
currently, my solution is to split the middle column into 2 columns, the first part is the image and text and the second part is date.
I was wondering if there is a way to write a momentjs date format to sort
<img src="https://id.cast-soft.com/moa/dist/pic/valid.svg">Valid until Aug. 31, 2020
and
<img src="https://id.cast-soft.com/moa/dist/pic/invalid.svg">Expired on Aug. 31, 2020
based on date order

Thank you,

kthorngren

I suspect the moment sorting plugin doesn't support the extra data. You can use orthogonal data and set the sort type to just the date. Then the moment sorting should work assuming your moment date format is correct.

Kevin

danielvianna

Thank you Kevin, your solution works