How to sort divs according to their id using jQuery?

Answer 1

There are plugins and the like to do sorting of elements. If you plan on actually re-ordering the DOM elements, you should probably use one of them.

If you just want a sorted list of the divs, you can use Javascript - since arrays can be sorted using a custom comparison function. You can convert the selected set of <div>s into an array using toArray() and then sort them using this mechanism.

$('#container > div').toArray().sort( function(a,b) { a.id - b.id } );

You could also use the detach() and appendTo() method to remove and the re-insert the elements in sorted order. However, this may not be the most efficient way to re-order the DOM elements.

Answer 2

I'd use the tinysort plugin:

http://tinysort.sjeiti.com/

In your case it would be something like:

$("#container > div").tsort("",{attr:"id"});

Answer 3

Try my jquery plugin $.toArrayouter, using Underscore library.

$('#container').html(_.sortBy($('#container>div').toArrayouter(),function (name) {return name} ).join(''))

Demo : http://jsfiddle.net/abdennour/fDZjR/1/