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Trying to sort, can't get it to work

Hello, everyone.

I am trying to sort something that isn't starting as an array, but I'm trying to make it into an array, sort it, then put it back as a string.

I have a SELECT tag that allows multiple selections, and an "ADD" button that calls a function that will populate an empty div with the TEXT of whatever was selected, separating each selection with " ". So, let's say that three options were highlighted and the add button clicked. The div would then look like this (in code, anyway.)

Code:

<div id="selectedDevs">Jack Black ZZTop Madonna</div>

This much is working great.

But I'm trying to use jQuery to sort the values.

Code:

$('#selectedDevs').html($('#selectedDevs').html().split(' ').sort().join(' '));

It does not change anything. Any suggestions?

Thank you,

I fixed it, but I don't know why it's working.

All I did was replace with in the split.

Code:

$('#selectedDevs').html($('#selectedDevs').html().split(' ').sort().join(' '));

The split was not seeing , for some reason.

HTML does not have a element. upon reading in an XHTML document through the HTML parser (which is not done only when the document is served with an XHTML MIME-Type) the elements are converted to valid HTML elements, i.e. (and that is what is read by the .html() method).

in short, JS accesses the parsed HTML document, not the written source code.