A script that can alphabetize

thats what I need, is it out there, did anyone do it?

please, this would be very usefull :)

more specifically what it should be able to do:

<div class="alignLeft">non</div><div class="alignRight">not</div><div class="alignCenter">=</div>

it should sort all these divs alphabeticaly (the left div counts)

and then I guess put them back out in the same form, just ordered :)

actually, come to thing of it, it doesnt have to be JS

thanks people

You can use the arry.sort() method to do simple alphabetical sorting.

For example...
function sortMyDivs(){

var sortarray = new Array();

for (i=0;i<nDivs;++i) { //where i is the id of the div??
textVal = document.getElementById(i).innerText; //do this better
sortarray[i] = new SortItem(i,textVal);
}

sortarray.sort(compare);
//now write out the results!
}

function SortItem(objID, textVal)
{
this.ID = objID;
this.val = textVal;
}

function compare(obj1, obj2)
{
if(obj1.val>obj2.val) {return 1;}
else return 0;

}

This will hopefully sort the objects alphbetically by the innertext value. I could write the whole thing properly but I've run out of time.

Good luck!

wmjb.

You can make the compare function compare anything from the objects you like. You can also have different compare functions for example... numeric sort, reverse alphabetic etc.

eeerr, I would not use innerText, as it is an IE only method. Use innerHTML, or firstChild.nodeValue or better firstChild.data instead.