I have a bunch of span4 class elements in my html. they look something like this:
<div class="span4">
<div class="widget">
<div class="header">blablabla</div>
</div>
</div>
I want to sort the span4 by that text iside header class.
I do this to sort them
$(".span4").sort(sortAlpha)
but how do I select the text inside the header class?
I'm doing this but I guess there is a better way
function sortAlphaAsc(a,b){
var nomeA = $(a.childNodes[1].childNodes[1]).text();
var nomeB = $(b.childNodes[1].childNodes[1]).text();
return a.innerHTML.toLowerCase() > b.innerHTML.toLowerCase() ? 1 : -1;
};
there must be a better way than
$(a.childNodes[1].childNodes[1]).text()
I have a bunch of span4 class elements in my html. they look something like this:
<div class="span4">
<div class="widget">
<div class="header">blablabla</div>
</div>
</div>
I want to sort the span4 by that text iside header class.
I do this to sort them
$(".span4").sort(sortAlpha)
but how do I select the text inside the header class?
I'm doing this but I guess there is a better way
function sortAlphaAsc(a,b){
var nomeA = $(a.childNodes[1].childNodes[1]).text();
var nomeB = $(b.childNodes[1].childNodes[1]).text();
return a.innerHTML.toLowerCase() > b.innerHTML.toLowerCase() ? 1 : -1;
};
there must be a better way than
$(a.childNodes[1].childNodes[1]).text()
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asked Dec 14, 2012 at 16:21
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- 1 $('.span4').find('.header').text()? – bozdoz Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 16:26
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How about
a.find('.header').text()
? – Heretic Monkey Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 16:26 - You don't use that variables in your return statement, simply remove them :). – Ram Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 16:26
4 Answers
Reset to default 3var elems = $(".span4");
elems.sort(function(a, b) {
return $(a).find('.header').text().toUpperCase().localeCompare(
$(b).find('.header').text().toUpperCase()
);
});
$(".span4").parent().html(elems);
FIDDLE
Try this:
function sortAlphaAsc(a,b){
var nomeA = $(a).find('div.header').text();
var nomeB = $(b).find('div.header').text();
return nomeA.toLowerCase() > nomeB.toLowerCase();
};
You could detach the spans, sort and append them. That will be very fast too as changing elements in memory and only updating the DOM once in the end is very efficient.
var $spans = $(".span4").detach();
var sortedSpans = $spans.sort(function(spanA, spanB) {
var spanTextA = $("div.header", spanA).text();
var spanTextB = $("div.header", spanB).text();
return spanTextA > spanTextB;
});
$("body").append(sortedSpans);
Obviously instead of body
you append it back to it's actual container element.
Or if the spans are in a mon container store the parent in cache var $parent = $spans.parent()
and in the end simply do $parent.html(sortedSpans)
.
I don't know your whole mark-up but that should get you started.
DEMO - Detach spans, sort them and append again
Do you mean something like this:
$('.span4').find('.header').text();
This will return the text inside the header div.