Trying to sort a custom JavaScript object

Question

I\'m not too good at JS, but have survived thus far. I\'m creating a sort-of complex JS object and wanting to sort it. The object\'s structure looks like this:

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Answer 1

Something like this works well, and you can easily define a function to wrap around it and sort jQuery objects given the comparison attribute:

    var $jobj = jQuery( '.jcss' ); // your selector here
    var $jarr = [];

    $jobj.each( function () {
        $jarr.push( jQuery( this ) );
    } );

    $jarr.sort( function ( a, b ) {
        var attr = {}; // your comparison attribute here
        attr.a = parseInt( a.data( 'priority' ) || 0 );
        attr.b = parseInt( b.data( 'priority' ) || 0 );
        return attr.a < attr.b ? -1 : attr.a > attr.b ? 1 : 0;
    } );

    $jobj = jQuery( jQuery.map( $jarr, function ( obj, i ) {
        return obj[0];
    } ) );

    // whatever you need to do here
    $jobj.css( { 'text-decoration': 'blink' } );