DataTables

DataTables Examples

by Muhammad Mushtaq Sheikh

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.0/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.9/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/rowreorder/1.0.0/js/dataTables.rowReorder.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.datatables.net/rowreorder/1.0.0/css/rowReorder.dataTables.css">
<table id="example">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Seq.</th>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
 
        <tfoot>
            <tr>
                <th>Seq.</th>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </tfoot>
 
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>2</td>
                <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>2011/04/25</td>
                <td>$320,800</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>22</td>
                <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>2011/07/25</td>
                <td>$170,750</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>6</td>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>2009/01/12</td>
                <td>$86,000</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>41</td>
                <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
                <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>2012/03/29</td>
                <td>$433,060</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>55</td>
               ...

JavaScript

String.prototype.asId = function() {
  var th = $('#example thead th');
  for (var i=0, l=th.length; i<l; i++) {
    if (th[i].textContent == this.toString()) return i
  }
}

var table = $('#example').DataTable({
  order: [[ 'Position'.asId(), 'asc']]
})