How can I modify this algorithm which reorders a ?

Question

Background:

I asked this question yesterday:

How to modify the orientation of a

spanning multiple columns?

asking how to

Answer 1

I know it's not as "elegant" as your accepted answer in that question, but the code I linked to in my answer yesterday does work perfectly for you:

http://jsfiddle.net/AcdcD/

If you don't need to handle resizing, it can be simplified slightly:

http://jsfiddle.net/AcdcD/1/

Maybe you can use this if you run out of time?