Sorting tags

Question

I have a a and I would like to sort my list alphabetically (I don\'t want caps to matter) according to a class named \"name\". How would I do this?

Answer 1

Here's another approach, stealing ideas from the other answers given so far (also requiring jQuery):

function sort(elementSelector, valueSelector, ascending) {
  var sign = ascending ? -1 : 1;
  var elements = jQuery(elementSelector);
  elements.each(function() {
    this.sortKey = jQuery(valueSelector, this).text();
  });
  var sorted = elements.get();
  sorted.sort(function(a, b) {
    var keyA = a.sortKey;
    var keyB = b.sortKey;
    return sign * ((keyA < keyB) - (keyA > keyB));
  });
  elements.parent().append(sorted);
}

sort('.column>li', '.name', true)