DataTables plugins

jQuery DataTables provides a lot of built-in features and flexibility, but if you wish to add your own features or need extra flexibility, it does provide a plugin architecture.

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These are just some of the plugins available for the DataTables library. To see a full list of available plugins, visit https://datatables.net/plug-ins/index

Date sorting

Because of the wide variety of different date formats, sorting dates can sometimes prove to be very challenging. Fortunately, jQuery DataTables provides a flexible solution for sorting date fields using the Moment.js JavaScript library.

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Moment.js is a free and open source library that makes it easy to display, parse, manipulate, and validate dates in JavaScript. You can read more about the Moment.js library at http://momentjs.com/.

To enable date sorting on the Created Date column used in the previous example, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Index.cshtml file inside the Views\Customer folder.

2. Include the moment.js library...