sort select menu alphabetically?

Answer 1

This is just a more generic answser based on @Jeff Parker's one!

function sortSelect(select, startAt) {
    if(typeof startAt === 'undefined') {
        startAt = 0;
    }

    var texts = [];

    for(var i = startAt; i < select.length; i++) {
        texts[i] = [
            select.options[i].text.toUpperCase(),
            select.options[i].text,
            select.options[i].value
        ].join('|');
    }

    texts.sort();

    texts.forEach(function(text, index) {
        var parts = text.split('|');

        select.options[startAt + index].text = parts[1];
        select.options[startAt + index].value = parts[2];
    });
}

I have also created a fiddle; http://jsfiddle.net/4u86B/1/