Test table sorting with Datatable

This post is for testing how to create a table in Jekyll Markdown that uses JQuery’s DataTables feature.

Steps

1. Creat an HTML file in the _includes folder that contains the script to use Datatables. For example, I created this file. Here I named my file datatables.html and you can name it with any name as you want.
2. Edit the _layouts/default.html to include the line that references the file created in step 1. For example, I added line 27 in my default.html to refer to my file from step 1.
3. Create a blog post as usual and make sure to include datatable: true in the frontmatter.
4. After creating a table as usual, add a line {: .datatable}. This is my current example post in Markdown.

For example, the table source code looks like:

Food    | Quantity | Time sold         | Cashier
--------|----------|-------------------|--------
Apples  | 15       | 6-25-2023 9:00:01 | A
Bananas | 10       | 6-25-2023 9:03:55 | B
Kiwis   | 3        | 6-25-2023 9:06:37 | C
Oranges | 5        | 6-25-2023 9:07:24 | D
{: .datatable}

This is the output you see in HTML: