On Jan 18, 3:52 am, NMarcu <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's the best way to sort options in select. I found a jquery
> plugin sortOptions(), but if I have options:
> Address 1, Address 2, Address 3, Address 100, Address 200
> , will be sort like this:
> Address 1, Address 100, Address 2, Address 200, Address 3
> ...and is not good. Do you have another solution, or how can I adapt
> this one to do a good sorting.
If this is the sortOptions from
http://www.texotela.co.uk/code/jquery/select/
you should be able to modify this yourself, and perhaps submit a patch
back to the creator. Ideally, it would follow this pattern:
$.fn.sortOptions = function(ascending, params) {
var parameters = $.extend( {}, $.fn.sortOptions .defaults,
params || {});
// [ ... ]
// sort items in array
sA.sort(parameters.sortFn);
// [ ... ]
};
$.fn.sortOptions.defaults = {
sortFn: function(01, 02) {
// original sort algorithm here
}
}
That would be the only changes needed to the original plug-in. Then
you could use it by either overriding
jQuery.sortOptions.defaults.sortFn or by passing in your function to
the call like this:
$("selector").sortOptions(true, {sortFn: mySortFn});
You might want to do some additional work to allow the first parameter
to sortOptions to remain optional.
As to actually implementing your sort, I leave that to you....
Good luck,
-- Scott
