Referring to http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/4904/blanks-in-the-date-column-causes-string-sort/p1,
when I use a custom date sorting function via a type detection (dynamic columns cannot set predefined type), the sorting function is still switching to string, when there is no value in a table cell, yet there are some HTML tags in the cell.
ie
The solution in the original case consists of setting the detected type to undefined for blank cells, is this something I can do from my type detection function as well? I tried to return "undefined", yet that does not work.
Is there a way to tell from the type detection function to stop detection on this cell and move on to the next, hence preventing a string match caused by the html tags?
when I use a custom date sorting function via a type detection (dynamic columns cannot set predefined type), the sorting function is still switching to string, when there is no value in a table cell, yet there are some HTML tags in the cell.
ie
<td><center></center></td>
The solution in the original case consists of setting the detected type to undefined for blank cells, is this something I can do from my type detection function as well? I tried to return "undefined", yet that does not work.
var sInput = sData.replace(/<[^>]+>/g,'');
if (sInput.length == 0) {
return undefined;
}
Is there a way to tell from the type detection function to stop detection on this cell and move on to the next, hence preventing a string match caused by the html tags?