Read HTML to data and preserve data-sort attribute.

JeffSinclair

Currently I use the data-sort attribute successfully in places.
In other cases we read into an object,
based on this example : https://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/object_dom_read.html

However I have been unable to get the data-sort attibute to work once the colomn data object is used.

allan

It is a bit awkward, and perhaps the documentation on it isn't quite right, but it is possible:

var table = new DataTable('#example', {
    columns: [
        { data: 'name' },
        { data: 'position' },
        { data: 'office' },
        { data: 'age' },
        { data: 'start_date' },
        {
          data: {
            _: 'salary.display',
            type: 'salary.@data-sort',
            sort: 'salary.@data-sort',
          }
        }
    ]
});

Example: https://live.datatables.net/wobicaro/1/edit

Allan