Custom Sorting of jQuery dataTable Columns

Question

I have a table which contains columns of numbers and NA.

    NA


    1024
         


        

Answer 1

Simply use data-order attribute in element. Plugin will sort based on that. For your case the HTML will be:

    NA


    1024


    100


    200


    300


    2096

More HTML5 attributes are available to solve problems of filtering, sorting, searching, etc.

https://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/html5-data-attributes.html