jQuery DataTables: how to sort by specific column? [closed]

Answer 1

Your Current Code:

$('table').dataTable({
    // display everything
    "iDisplayLength": -1
});

What you could do:

oTable = $('table').dataTable({
    // display everything
    "iDisplayLength": -1
});

oTable.fnSort( [ [0,'desc'] ] ); // Sort by first column descending

But as pointed out in the comment below, this may be a cleaner method:

$('table').dataTable({
    // display everything
    "iDisplayLength": -1,
    "aaSorting": [[ 0, "desc" ]] // Sort by first column descending
});