jquery datatable plugin doesn't seem to sort columns with links properly

Question

I have a column that was pure text and the sorting worked fine but when I change the column data to HTML regular links, the sorting seems quite random and broken. I couldn\

Answer 1

It sounds like the table is being sorted on the literal HTML strings, rather than the text. I haven't used that plugin but there is probably a way to override the default sorting method.

If not, give TableSorter a try, because it does this.