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    copied!<p>I'm creating a dataTables table to use as an archive of pages for a site that produces a comic strip. On that archives page, I'd like to have the title of the comic be a link to the page of that comic strip.</p> <p>Initialization:</p> <pre><code> &lt;script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt; $(document).ready(function() { $('#example').dataTable( { "bProcessing": true, "sAjaxSource": "archive/archive.txt" } ); } ); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>HTML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="display" id="example"&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th width="20%"&gt;Author&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="25%"&gt;Title&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="25%"&gt;Episode&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="15%"&gt;Date&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="15%"&gt;Tags&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>JSON Data:</p> <pre><code>{ "aaData": [ ["Bob","Title One","Episode 1","9/30/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Bob","Title One","Episode 2","10/2/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Bob","Title One","Episode 3","10/4/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Bob","Title Four","Episode 1","10/8/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Bob","Title Five","Episode 1","10/11/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Bob","Title Six","Episode 1","10/12/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Kevin","Title Seven","Episode 1","10/15/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Kevin","Title Eight","Episode 1","10/17/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Kevin","Title Eight","Episode 2","10/20/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Kevin","Title Ten","Episode 1","10/22/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Kevin","Title Eleven","Episode 1","10/23/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"], ["Kevin","Title Twelve","Episode 1","10/24/2010","tag1,tag2,tag3"] ] } </code></pre> <p>Where "Title One" or "Title Four" etc, would be a link to the page of that comic. Admittedly, I don't have much in the way of chops with dataTables, so if you might be explicit in your solution, that would be well appreciated.</p>
 

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