sort items in a dropdown list without the first item

Question

I have the following code to sort the items in a dropdown list:

function sortDropDownListByText(selectId) {
    $(selectId).html($(selectId + \" option\").so         


        

Answer 1

How about always returning -1 for that item?

$(selectId).html($(selectId + " option").sort(function(a, b) {
   return a.text == "Please select an item from the list" ? -1 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1;
});

more dynamically:

$(selectId).html($(selectId + " option").sort(function(a, b) {
   return a.text == $(selectId + 'option:first').text ? -1 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1;
});