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wolverine87
wolverine87

Reputation: 23

Sort an unordered list alphabetically

I want to sort an unordered list alphabetically. I've tried many different javascript solutions, not one of them worked (tested in Safari and Chrome). This is the code I would like to use:

var activeLanguage = "de"

function sortUL(selector) {
  var $ul = $(selector);
  $ul.find('li').sort(function(a, b) {
    var upA = $(a).text().toUpperCase();
    var upB = $(b).text().toUpperCase();
    return (upA < upB) ? -1 : (upA > upB) ? 1 : 0;
  }).appendTo(selector);
};

$(document).ready(function() {
  sortUL("#WoodList");
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="WoodList">
  <li>Banana</li>
  <li>Catv</li>
  <li>Apple</li>
  <li>Orange</li>
  <li>Car</li>
  <li>Pear</li>
  <li>Banana</li>
  <li>Cat2</li>
  <li>Apple4</li>
  <li>Banana1</li>
  <li>Cat</li>
  <li>Apples</li>
  <li>Banana</li>
  <li>Cat</li>
</ul>

The list remains unsorted in the browser. Why is it not working ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5975

Answers (1)

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 2046

Here's a working example on JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/vzbgzexc/

Make sure that you're loading jQuery. It doesn't look like anywhere in your code that you're loading jQuery, yet you're using $. You're likely receiving an error in your browser's console similar to this:

ReferenceError: $ is not defined

Insert:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.0.0.min.js"></script>

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 2

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