move up/down in jquery

Question

I Have 5 spans i am trying to move them up/down (swap positions) in jquery

Up! 
Down!         


        

Answer 1

You're trying to insert a certain span before the next one, which makes it remain on the same position...

$("#"+LinkID).insertBefore($("#"+LinkID).prev());

or

$("#"+LinkID).insertAfter($("#"+LinkID).next()); 

would be better.