Sorting for file size with KB, MB...?

[weilinzung]

Sorting for file size with KB, MB...?

[johanneswilm]

Is this a feature you would like to program @weilinzung ? If so, we could add it.

[mbucas]

I had the same problem, because file sizes where formatted server-side.
However I found looking at the sources of the sort function of Simple-DataTables [1] that it can use an attribute "data-content" to sort data instead of the content of the cell which includes KB, MB, ...
So I've put the bytes file size in this attribute and now the sort uses it (note that I count 1024 bytes in 1 KB) :

 <td data-content="162155197" align="right">154.6&nbsp;MB</td>

It'd be nice if it appeared in the wiki !

[1] https://github.com/fiduswriter/Simple-DataTables/blob/db3671f2a5c43c16122e0a48b19c85d3a7f5cc10/src/columns.js#L364

[Stoakes]

Hello,

I've been dealing with similar issue for an hour before eventually finding this thread, which greatly helped me. Thanks to you all.

So commenting here for search engines: data-content in Simple-Datatables is equivalent to DataTables data-sort or data-order

EDIT April 2024: The answer above was valid for simple-datatables < 6.0.0

When using a version >= 7.0.3, you must use data-order, as described in Getting started

[teemue]

How do you actually set the data-content-value? I tried to set it after datatable.rows().add() but it gets cleared after sorting the column.

[Stoakes]

My HTML is generated server side, so data-content come from there.