Just a suggestion, if you just need to sort the elements by id and
displaying their order without modifying the DOM you can totally do
this
alert($('#group div').add('#delta').get().sort(function(a,b) {return
a.id > b.id;}));
On Feb 18, 12:15 pm, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've since updated the script by request, it failed if you began with
> a single element in the container. It now sorts by any attribute you
> want (ids by default) and works with multiple elements both ways.
>
> http://ff6600.org/j/jquery.insertInOrder.js
>
> Examples at:http://jsbin.com/itofihttp://jsbin.com/itofi/edit(source)
>
> cheers,
> - ricardo
>
> On 22 dez 2008, 15:54, Tbone <95dak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks to you, too, ksun....Between you and Ricardo, I think I
> > understand this now!
>
> > On Dec 22, 11:42 am, ksun <kavi.sunda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > //locate thedivbefore which you want toinsertand theninsert,
> > > assuming they are ordered alphabetically
> > > $('div[id]').each(function(){
> > > if ($(this).attr('id') > 'delta')
> > >
> > > $(this).before('<divid="delta"/>');
> > > });
>
> > > I think there is no selector that will do the same, but I may be
> > > wrong.
> > > On Dec 22, 12:32 pm, Tbone <95dak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Great! Thanks...
> > > > However, I'm more clueless than I should be...and didn't pose the
> > > > complete question...
>
> > > > I have the divs as shown above, how do I locate where <div
> > > > id="delta"></div> would go?
> > > > Obviously between gamma and epsilon, but I need to search the ids for
> > > > the first (id > "delta"). Then I can use yourinsertto properly
> > > > place it. I assume I use a selector, but am not sure how to put it
> > > > together.
>
> > > > On Dec 22, 10:25 am, ksun <kavi.sunda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > try this, it willinsertgamma1 before epsilon.
>
> > > > > $('#gamma~#epsilon').before('<divid="gamma1"/>');
>
> > > > > I first used after(), but that didn't work, looks like $
> > > > > ('#gamma~#epsilon') selects #epsilon.- Hide quoted text -
>
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