title: Custom Sorting of jQuery dataTable Columns
body: <p>I have a table which contains columns of numbers and NA.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;NA&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;1024&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;100&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;200&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;300&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;2096&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm trying to use <a href="http://datatables.net/">jQuery dataTable</a> to sort the column to produce the following:</p>
  
  <p><strong>NA, 100, 200, 300, 1024, 2096</strong> <em>and</em> <strong>2096, 1024, 300, 200, 100, NA</strong></p>
  
  <p>but can't figure out how to do it from reading the sorting and plugins docs.</p>
  
  <p>I've created a Fiddle of the code here: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/stowball/rYtxh/">http://jsfiddle.net/stowball/rYtxh/</a> and would really appreciate some assistance.</p>