sort select menu alphabetically?

Answer 1

Being a purist, I would say that at no point was jQuery specifically mentioned or asked for, it may not be in use in this project for one reason or another. Here's an example using pure javascript.

function sortlist(){

 var cl = document.getElementById('carlist');
 var clTexts = new Array();

 for(i = 2; i < cl.length; i++){
    clTexts[i-2] =
        cl.options[i].text.toUpperCase() + "," +
        cl.options[i].text + "," +
        cl.options[i].value + "," +
        cl.options[i].selected;
 }

 clTexts.sort();

 for(i = 2; i < cl.length; i++){
    var parts = clTexts[i-2].split(',');

    cl.options[i].text = parts[1];
    cl.options[i].value = parts[2];
    if(parts[3] == "true"){
        cl.options[i].selected = true;
    }else{
       cl.options[i].selected = false;
    }
 }
}

sortlist();

http://jsfiddle.net/GAYvL/7/

Updated to be case neutral.