With DataTables you can alter the ordering characteristics of the table at initialisation time. Using the order initialisation parameter, you can set the table to display the data in exactly the order that you …

Using this format, DataTables can achieve single column ordering (i.e. just use one entry in the top level array), or multi-column ordering to the n th column (multiple entries in the array).

The sort () method provides a way of sorted the data in an API instance's result set, which can be particularly useful if you then want to use that data for displaying to the end user - for example as a …

This option sets whether columns can be ordered or not in DataTables. By default, DataTables allows end users to click on the header cell for each column, ordering the table by the data in that column.

The main DataTables package includes sorting functions for strings, dates, numeric and currency data, but you may very well wish to order data in some other manner, for example date formats not built in.

If ordering is enabled (ordering), then DataTables will perform a first pass order during initialisation. Using this parameter you can define which column (s) the order is performed upon, and the ordering …

DataTables allows ordering by multiple columns at the same time, which can be activated in a number of different ways:

With DataTables you can alter the sorting characteristics of the table at initialisation time. Using the aaSorting initialisation parameter, you can get the table exactly how you want to present the …

DataTables.Api: DataTables API instance containing asc, desc or an empty string (indicating index data order) for the possible ordering applied to a column. If a column is not being ordered on, null is given.

A common example of this is a table which contains first and last name columns next to each other, it is intuitive that they would be linked together to multi-column sort.