Move list item to top of unordered list using jQuery

Question

Lets say i have the following unordered list

 
Hank
 
Alice
 

        

Answer 1

i played around with the fiddle No Surprises has made, and extended the code for swapping two arbitrary sets of elements (the only restriction being they must directly follow each other).

see here: http://jsfiddle.net/ZXYZ3/139/