title: Jquery datatable numeric sort
body: <p>I useed the jquery datatable  for table sorting for the following data.</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;table width="50%" border="0" id="pls-pitching"&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;input name="t" type="text" value="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;input name="t" type="text" value="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;input name="t" type="text" value="2" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;input name="t" type="text" value="3" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;span&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;input name="t" type="text" value="10" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;/table&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here i want to sort the text box values as 1,2,3,5,10
  I couldn't implement the text box value sorting. So i added the <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> tag before the text box like (<code>&lt;span&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;</code>). Now it sorts the values. But it sort like 1,10,2,3,5</p>
  
  <p>But i need to sort this like the numeric sort.</p>
  
  <p>I used the following javascript command </p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#pls-pitching').dataTable();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any possibility to implement the text box value sorting ? Please do the needful. Thanks</p>