dataTables colReorder server-side

by olemoign

HTML

<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/dt/dt-2.0.2/cr-2.0.0/datatables.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/v/dt/dt-2.0.2/cr-2.0.0/datatables.min.css">
<table class="display" style="width:100%">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th data-data="name">Name</th>
      <th data-data="position">Position</th>
      <th data-data="office">Office</th>
      <th data-data="extn">Extn.</th>
      <th data-data="start_date">Start date</th>
      <th data-data="salary">Salary</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
</table>

CSS

.bold {
  font-weight: bold;
}

JavaScript

function makeBold(row) {
	$(row).find('td').each(function() {
  	$(this).wrapInner('<div class="bold"></div>');
  });
}

function getData() {
	return {
    "data": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "name": "Tiger Nixon",
        "position": "System Architect",
        "salary": "$320,800",
        "start_date": "2011-04-25",
        "office": "Edinburgh",
        "extn": "5421"
      },
      {
        "id": "2",
        "name": "Garrett Winters",
        "position": "Accountant",
        "salary": "$170,750",
        "start_date": "2011-07-25",
        "office": "Tokyo",
        "extn": "8422"
      },
      {
        "id": "3",
        "name": "Ashton Cox",
        "position": "Junior Technical Author",
        "salary": "$86,000",
        "start_date": "2009-01-12",
        "office": "San Francisco",
        "extn": "1562"
      },
      {
        "id": "4",
        "name": "Cedric Kelly",
        "position": "Senior Javascript Developer",
        "salary": "$433,060",
        "start_date": "2012-03-29",
        "office": "Edinburgh",
        "extn": "6224"
      },
      {
        "id": "5",
        "name": "Airi Satou",
        "position": "Accountant",
        "salary": "$162,700",
        "start_date": "2008-11-28",
        "office": "Tokyo",
        "extn": "5407"
      },
      {
        "id": "6",
        "name": "Brielle Williamson",
        "position": "Integration Specialist",
        "salary": "$372,000",
        "start_date": "2012-12-02",
        "office": "New York",
        "extn": "4804"
      },
      {
        "id": "7",
        "name": "Herrod Chandler",
        "position": "Sales Assistant",
        "salary": "$137,500",
        "start_date": "2012-08-06",
        "office": "San Francisco",
        "extn": "9608"
      },
      {
        "id": "8",
        "name": "Rhona Davidson",
        "position": "Integration Specialist",
        "salary": "$327,900",
        "start_date": "2010-10-14",
        "office": "Tokyo",
        "extn":...