DataTable: Sort by Last Name

by Austin Adair

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<table id="example"></table>

JavaScript

let data =[
        {
            "name" : {    
                  "Full Name": "Tiger Nixon",
                  "Last Name": "Nixon",
                  "ID":25
            }
        },
        {
            "name" : {    
                  "Full Name": "Garrett Winters",
  								"Last Name": "Winters",
                  "ID":37
            }
        },
        {
            "name" : {    
                  "Full Name": "Ashton Cox",
  								"Last Name": "Cox",
                  "ID":156
            }
        },
        {
            "name" : {    
                  "Full Name": "Haley Kennedy",
  								"Last Name": "Kennedy",
                  "ID":5
            }
        }
];


$("#example").DataTable({
  "data": data,
  "columns": [
			
			{ data: {
					_:    "name.Full Name",
					sort: "name.Last Name",
					} 
			}
  ]
});