What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create a table, with the grouping by letter column content being a link or a span (or any HTML tag). 2. Group by letter with awesome add-on jquery-datatables-row-grouping. 3. Fly robin, fly.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect to see Letter grouping rows (A,B,C, those guys). I see only one grouping row with '<' label on it. It takes the first letter of the innterHTML property of the element. It should read the first letter of the innerText property. (Issue is located at L638)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Add-on: 1.2.7 DataTables: 1.9.4 jQuery: 1.8.2

Please provide any additional information below. I am awesome.