What is the easiest way to order a <UL>/<OL> in jQuery?

Question

I'm looking for some sample code that will sort the list items in an HTML list by alphabetical order. Can anyone help?

Here is a sample list for people to work with:

<ul class="alphaList">     <li>apples</li>     <li>cats</li>     <li>bears</li> </ul> 

Answer 1

var items = $('.alphaList > li').get(); items.sort(function(a,b){   var keyA = $(a).text();   var keyB = $(b).text();    if (keyA < keyB) return -1;   if (keyA > keyB) return 1;   return 0; }); var ul = $('.alphaList'); $.each(items, function(i, li){   ul.append(li); /* This removes li from the old spot and moves it */ });