Question

I’m using the DataTable plugin on one of my project – and the date-sorting is driving me crazy! 😉

Basically, I have tables with various number of columns (between 2 and 8 columns).
The date column is always the first column – I want to set UK date format sorting on first column without knowing the exact number of columns.

According to the doc here: http://datatables.net/usage/columns
the following 2 examples should work identical:

Example #1. (live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/MrTest/yM24R/33/)

       "aoColumnDefs": {
            "aTargets": [0] ,
            "sType": "uk_date"
        }

Example #2. (live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/MrTest/yM24R/) – but with this way you must know the exact number of columns.

      "aoColumns": [
           {
            "sType": "uk_date"},
            null,
            null,
            null

            ]

As you can see the second example works fine and sort the dates correctly, but the first one does not work at all.

Have anyone of you have some experience with the plugin or the problem? Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

You mixed up curly brackets with [ ]

"aoColumnDefs" : [
   {"aTargets" : [0] , "sType" : "uk_date"}
]