Sort HTML list with HTML content using JQuery

Question

Is it possible to sort the list bellow from the lower number to the bigger number, keeping each li content?

    

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Answer 1

Your function should be like this.

function numOrdDesc(a, b) {
    var aTxt = parseInt($(a)[0].innerText, 10);
    var bTxt = parseInt($(b)[0].innerText, 10);
    return (bTxt - aTxt);
}

DEMO