Hi. I'm about to go home and have a question for tomorrow's work.
1 - Take a <div> container. 2 - Use AJAX to add a bunch of labels/checkboxes. The labels are supplied alphabetically sorted. 3 - Use JS to tidy the label widths so that the display looks like columns. 4 - Add an attribute to the labels indicating the column/row ordering to be used. 5 - Sort the labels based upon the column/row ordering so that you read the data in columns (e.g. a - g in col1, h - m in col2, etc.) I've got this working, but I don't think it is particularly efficient. So to my question. Can I sort the children of a container so that after the sort, the children are displayed in the new order? Currently, I have to ... 1 - Add the labels to the container (inserting template.evaluate()'s at bottom of container element). 2 - Read all the elements into an array. 3 - Sort the array. 4 - Zap the container. 5 - Re-add the elements. I think I'd have to bubble sort the container's children by hand ... Is that an appropriate solution? Can I say something like (pseudo) ... holdingElement = container.childElement[x]; container.childElement[x] = container.childElement[y]; container.childElement[y] = holdingElement; sort of thing. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
