how to sort by date (new) with jquery isotope

Question

Forgive me as I\'m a bit novice to JS, just know enough to manipulate.

For those familiar with Isotope ( http://isotope.metafizzy.co/docs/sorting.html ), I have a b

Answer 1

Heres what I did to sort by date.

If your date is in the format of '01/01/2012' then you need to convert it to a javascript date object.

getSortData: {
    date: function ($elem) {
        var dateStr = $elem.find('.date').text(),
            dateArray = dateStr.split('/'),
            year = dateArray[2],
            month = dateArray[0],
            day = dateArray[1];
        return new Date(year, month, day);
    }
}

then you do your usual

$('#container').isotope({ sortBy: 'date' });