HTML5 Data attributes on initialisation

Busteren

So I am trying to add data-sort attribute on initialisation of the datatable. Mainly for use of sorting dates or numbers.
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However after googling and searching I couldn't find how to do this in the .DataTable() initialisation.

Anyone have suggestion or can link to another post which shows it?
Something like having it in the columns option if this is doable:
.DataTable({columns: [{ data: 'date'}]})

Busteren

Just to add an example of how I use the datatable:
live.datatables.net/tolomeji/7/edit

Note that I do use a custom render, which I haven't added here.

kthorngren

The HTML5 data-sort and data-search attributes are intended for DOM sourced tables. I'm not sure they will work with Javascript or Ajax loaded data as they would be added during initialization. I don't believe they would be applied by Datatables for sorting or searching.

The Orthogonal Data docs will describe how the HTML5 attributes are used. I think you would be better off using the sort type described in the same doc. You would use code similar to what is shown in the Computed Values section but for the sort type to build your sorting data.

If you are specifically trying to sort dates you may be interested in the Ultimate Date/Time sorting doc.

Kevin

Busteren

This here fixed it Turned out I didn't need to add the data-order tag after all

{ data: "date", title: "Date", render: function(data, type, row) { 
          if ( type === 'display') {
            return timeFormat(data) 
          }
          return data; 
        }

Busteren

@kthorngren cheers! I might have to modify what I already have, so that site is very handy. Thank you for the explanation as well