sort items in a dropdown list without the first item

Question

I have the following code to sort the items in a dropdown list:

function sortDropDownListByText(selectId) {
    $(selectId).html($(selectId + \" option\").so         


        

Answer 1

function sortDropDownListByText(selectId) {
    var foption = $('#'+ selectId + ' option:first');
    var soptions = $('#'+ selectId + ' option:not(:first)').sort(function(a, b) {
       return a.text == b.text ? 0 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1
    });
    $('#' + selectId).html(soptions).prepend(foption);              

};

is your function.