jquery datatable plugin doesn't seem to sort columns with links properly

Question

I have a column that was pure text and the sorting worked fine but when I change the column data to HTML regular links, the sorting seems quite random and broken. I couldn\

Answer 1

I would check the source of the plugin, and see if it's sorting on something like this

var sortText = $(this).html();

and change the html() method to text(). This will strip out all tags and sort it on the text node only.