Sorting UK Date format in JQuery Datatables Dec 1, 2011 DataTables are a brilliant plugin for JQuery that restyle and add functionality to your tables. They add searching, pagination and sorting right out of the box with very little configuration needed – unfortunately the sorting doesn’t support the UK date format so you need to add your own sorting methods – basic ones are supplied by the site itself but I have added a couple of tweaks to handle blank dates. Development Development How To's Datatables Javascript JQuery regex sorting