(JavaScript) How Can I do drop down list sorting?

[bhavanirayala]

Hi,

I have drop down list which is populating form the xml by using AJAX.
After getting the text in that opetion I want to do sorting in java script.
How can I do?
please help me.

Regards,
Bhavani

[gits]

hi ...

the best way would be to put the optionvalues and texts into an js-array ... sort this now ... and after this is sorted ... populate your menulist with the sorted values

kind regards

[bhavanirayala]

hi ...

the best way would be to put the optionvalues and texts into an js-array ... sort this now ... and after this is sorted ... populate your menulist with the sorted values

kind regards

Hi gits,

i have the xml like[code=xml]
<LETTER file="ATM_Lette r.doc" text="ATM Letter"/>
<LETTER file="Collatera l_Correction_Le tter_and_CCS.do c" text="Collatera l Correction Letter and CCS"/>
............... ......
..............[/code]
............... .......

I am populating the xml values in menu options like following.
var menuOption = new Option(text , file, false, false);

How can I convert this Option to Array?

[pbmods]

Heya, Bhavanirayala.

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

&#91;CODE=xm l]
XML code goes here.
&#91;/CODE]

This is not the first time you've been asked.

[gits]

hi ...

you don't have to convert this ... or whatever. simply put them into a list that is indexed with the key you want to sort:

[CODE=javascript]var list = {};
var sort_list = [];

// everytime you have retrieved a new option
// you do:
list[text] = menuOption;

// where menuOption is the ref to the new Option() you already have
// AND !!!
sort_list.push( text);
[/CODE]

now you may simply sort the sort_list with the array sort() method.
after that ... you loop through the sorted list, and get the corresponding option from our 'option'-list:

[CODE=javascript]for (var i = 0; i < sort_list.lengh t; i++) {
var item = sort_list[i];
var option_to_add = list[item];
// add the option here to your menulist :)
}
[/CODE]
kind regards