I do not care anymore. Solved the problem serverside. On Jan 17, 9:36 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that selectedIndex will default to 0 if the selected attribute > is not set explicitly. The only workaround/hack I can think of is to > look at the innerHTML to see if it was set explicitly. Maybe something > like this: > > jQuery("select").each(function(){ > var thisSel = jQuery(this); > var oldVal = thisSel.val(); > var setzero = > this.innerHTML.toLowerCase().indexOf('selected') > == -1 && > this.selectedIndex==0; > thisSel.html(jQuery("option", this).sort(function(a, b) { > return a.text == b.text ? 0 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1 > })); > if (setzero){ > thisSel.attr("selectedIndex",0); > }else{ > thisSel.val(oldVal); > } > }); > > Won't work on IE since it rewrites all of your option elements. > > On Jan 17, 2:51 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would like to have all select/options automatically sorted client > > side. Tried this: > > > <script> > > jQuery(document).ready(function(){ > > jQuery("select").each(function(){ > > var i = jQuery(this).attr('selectedIndex'); > > jQuery(this).html(jQuery(this).children("option").sort(function > > (a,b) { > > return (a.text == b.text)?0:((a.text < b.text)?-1:1); > > })); > > alert(jQuery(this).attr('id')+i); > > if(i<0 || i==null) > > jQuery(this).children("option:first").attr("selected","selected"); > > });}); > > > </script> > > > <form> > > <select id="A"> > > <option>C</option> > > <option selected="selected">B</option> > > <option>A</option> > > </select> > > > <select id="C"> > > <option>Z</option> > > <option>Y</option> > > <option>X</option> > > <option>T</option> > > </select> > > </form> > > > The sorting works but while in the first case B is correctly selected. > > In the second case Z is selected instead of T. > > This is because if(i<0 || i==null) is always false while it should be > > true for the second select. > > Any idea of how to fix this? > > > Massimo > >
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