I want to create links in record fields in DataTables from JSON data

Question

I\'m creating a dataTables table to use as an archive of pages for a site that produces a comic strip. On that archives page, I\'d like to have the title of the comic be a l

Answer 1

Below, is what I did to get altered html text in column cell, given a certain value in the aaData object array. This works, but feels horrible because html markup is in the javascript as above.

var dataTableMeta = { "bProcessing": true,
            "bServerSide": true,
            "sAjaxSource": url
                                , "aoColumns": aoColumns
                                , "fnServerData": function (sSource, aoData, fnCallback) {
                                    $.ajax({ "dataType": 'json', "type": "POST", "url": sSource, "data": aoData, "success": fnCallback,
                                        'dataFilter': function (data, type) {
                                            var jsObject = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
                                            for (var i = 0; i < jsObject.aaData.length; i++) {
                                                jsObject.aaData[i].CaseID = '' + jsObject.aaData[i].CaseID + '';
                                            }
                                            var jsonString = JSON.stringify(jsObject);
                                            return jsonString;
                                        }
                                    });
                                }
        };

        $('#caseSearchTable').dataTable(dataTableMeta);