Sorting Select box with jQuery

Question

I have a select box on a form, which carries an incremental rel attribute. I have a function that can sort the options by thier .text() value, into alphabetcal order.

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Answer 1

If you want to sort by rel you should change your function

$(this).html($("option", $(this)).sort(function(a, b) { 
    var arel = $(a).attr('rel');
    var brel = $(b).attr('rel');
    return arel == brel ? 0 : arel < brel ? -1 : 1 
}));

edit with parseInt()

$(this).html($("option", $(this)).sort(function(a, b) { 
    var arel = parseInt($(a).attr('rel'), 10);
    var brel = parseInt($(b).attr('rel'), 10);
    return arel == brel ? 0 : arel < brel ? -1 : 1 
}));