[SO] - Data Tables. fix first column so not sort-able
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44920402/data-tables-fix-first-column-so-not-sort-able/44921941#44921941
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.15/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Counter</th>
<th class="no-sort">Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th></th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>Airi Satou</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>33</td>
...
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
var t = $('#example').DataTable( {
"columnDefs": [ {
"searchable": false,
"orderable": false,
"targets": 0
} ],
"order": [[ 1, 'asc' ]]
} );
t.on( 'order.dt search.dt', function () {
t.column(0, {search:'applied', order:'applied'}).nodes().each( function (cell, i) {
cell.innerHTML = i+1;
} );
} ).draw();
} );