Disable sorting for a particular column in jQuery DataTables
This is what you're looking for:
$('#example').dataTable( { "aoColumnDefs": [ { 'bSortable': false, 'aTargets': [ 1 ] } ]});
As of DataTables 1.10.5 it is now possible to define initialisation options using HTML5 data-* attributes.
-from DataTables example - HTML5 data-* attributes - table options
So you can use data-orderable="false" on the th of the column you don't want to be sortable. For example, the second column "Avatar" in the table below will not be sortable:
<table id="example" class="display" width="100%" data-page-length="25"> <thead> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th data-orderable="false">Avatar</th> <th>Start date</th> <th>Salary</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Tiger Nixon</td> <td><img src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8edcff60cdcca2ad650758fa524d4990?s=64&d=identicon&r=PG" alt="" style="width: 64px; height: 64px; visibility: visible;"></td> <td>2011/04/25</td> <td>$320,800</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Garrett Winters</td> <td><img src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/98fe9834dcca2ad650758fa524d4990?s=64&d=identicon&r=PG" alt="" style="width: 64px; height: 64px; visibility: visible;"></td> <td>2011/07/25</td> <td>$170,750</td> </tr> ...[ETC]... </tbody></table>See a working example at https://jsfiddle.net/jhfrench/6yxvxt7L/.
To make a first column sorting disable, try with the below code in datatables jquery. The null represents the sorting enable here.
$('#example').dataTable( { "aoColumns": [ { "bSortable": false }, null, null, null ]} );