its tough to diagnose without knowing what your variable "html" returned by the $.ajax call is
but working up an example trying to simulate it, this works as expected.... items stay in order of adding plus the <ol> items adjust their indexes automatically http://paste.pocoo.org/show/86671/ On Sep 30, 5:37 pm, claudes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an interface that allows user to add chapters and remove any chapter > from within the group. i'm having issues re-calculating the sort order. > currently if user adds four chapters (1,2,3,4), removes 2 and adds two more > the order becomes (1, 3,4,2,3). i know i need to so something with index > calculation...but how to is what is confusing me. this is the code that > performs the add remove. > > $("#chapter-append").click(function() { > var chapterCount = new > Number($("#chapter-count").val()); > if (chapterCount <1) chapterCount=0; > chapterCount = chapterCount +1; > $("#chapter-count").val(chapterCount); > > var queryString = > "add-chapter.php?chapter-number="+chapterCount; > //alert(queryString); > $.get(queryString, function(html) { > // append the "ajax'd" data to the table body > $("ol#add-chapter").append(html); > $("ol#add-chapter li > h4").bind('click', function() { > var > newChapter = "#chapter-"+chapterCount+"-container"; > > $(newChapter).remove(); > > chapterCount = chapterCount -1; > > $("#chapter-count").val(chapterCount); > > return false; > }); > $('textarea').autogrow({ > minHeight: 144, lineHeight: 16}); > > $('textarea.for-url').autogrow({ minHeight: 24, lineHeight: 16}); > }); > return false; > }); > > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/add-remove-and-recalculate-index-tp19750882s272... > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
