[jquery] Sort divs in jQuery based on attribute 'data-sort'?

If I have several divs:

<div data-sort='1'>div1</div>
<div data-sort='4'>div4</div>
<div data-sort='8'>div8</div>
<div data-sort='12'>div12</div>
<div data-sort='19'>div19</div>

And I dynamically create the divs:

<div data-sort='14'>div1</div>
<div data-sort='6'>div1</div>
<div data-sort='9'>div1</div>

How can I get them to just sort into the divs already loaded in order, without having to reload all of the divs?

I think that I would need to build an array of the data-sort values of all of the divs on the screen, and then see where the new divs fit in, but I am not sure if this is the best way.

I used this to sort a gallery of images where the sort array would be altered by an ajax call. Hopefully it can be useful to someone.

var myArray = ['2', '3', '1'];_x000D_
var elArray = [];_x000D_
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$('.imgs').each(function() {_x000D_
    elArray[$(this).data('image-id')] = $(this);_x000D_
});_x000D_
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$.each(myArray,function(index,value){_x000D_
   $('#container').append(elArray[value]); _x000D_
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div id='container'>_x000D_
   <div class="imgs" data-image-id='1'>1</div>_x000D_
   <div class="imgs" data-image-id='2'>2</div>_x000D_
   <div class="imgs" data-image-id='3'>3</div>_x000D_
</div>

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ruys9ksg/

I made this into a jQuery function:

jQuery.fn.sortDivs = function sortDivs() {
    $("> div", this[0]).sort(dec_sort).appendTo(this[0]);
    function dec_sort(a, b){ return ($(b).data("sort")) < ($(a).data("sort")) ? 1 : -1; }
}

So you have a big div like "#boo" and all your little divs inside of there:

$("#boo").sortDivs();

You need the "? 1 : -1" because of a bug in Chrome, without this it won't sort more than 10 divs! http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-Wrong.html

Answered the same question here:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/23298715/1007358

To repost:

After searching through many solutions I decided to blog about how to sort in jquery. In summary, steps to sort jquery "array-like" objects by data attribute...

1. select all object via jquery selector
2. convert to actual array (not array-like jquery object)
3. sort the array of objects
4. convert back to jquery object with the array of dom objects

Html

<div class="item" data-order="2">2</div>
<div class="item" data-order="1">1</div>
<div class="item" data-order="4">4</div>
<div class="item" data-order="3">3</div>

Plain jquery selector

$('.item');

[<div class="item" data-order="2">2</div>,
 <div class="item" data-order="1">1</div>,
 <div class="item" data-order="4">4</div>,
 <div class="item" data-order="3">3</div>
]

Lets sort this by data-order

function getSorted(selector, attrName) {
    return $($(selector).toArray().sort(function(a, b){
        var aVal = parseInt(a.getAttribute(attrName)),
            bVal = parseInt(b.getAttribute(attrName));
        return aVal - bVal;
    }));
}

> getSorted('.item', 'data-order')

[<div class="item" data-order="1">1</div>,
 <div class="item" data-order="2">2</div>,
 <div class="item" data-order="3">3</div>,
 <div class="item" data-order="4">4</div>
]

See how getSorted() works.

Hope this helps!