I upgraded my website to the latest jquery build (2.1.4), and I'm trying to debug the many errors that it is throwing.
However, I keep getting the error "unrecognized expression: [id=]" on the following script:
setTimeout(function() {
$(".cab_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas_user").each(function () {
var ids = $('[id=' + this.id + ']');
if (ids.length > 1 && ids[0] == this) {
$(ids[1]).remove();
}
});
and I can't wrap my head around it.
Any help will be appreciated.
At first I was going to write a comment advising to put support requests directly on jQuery, but then I saw the code and thought it merits some discussion.
First of all, the id attribute is a special attribute in HTML. It is supposed to hold a unique value throughout the whole document (in other words, no two elements can have the same id), so I'm finding it strange that code would ever work.
Secondly, I don't see any reason why you would use jQuery to select an element by id when a simple document.getElementById() would have done the trick. Let's say you wanted to have a jQuery element. Fine, even in that case, your jQuery selector is far from perfect. A better alternative would be $('#' + this.id);. That said, the best alternative would be a simple $(this)... no need to worry about the id at all.
Perhaps I misunderstand the new jquery build, but normally you would declare your id within the jquery wrapper with
$('#myId')
Your code is assigning
var ids = $('[id=' + this.id + ']');
which translates to this
ids = $('[id=whateverThisIdIs]');
Can you try this instead?
var ids = $('#' + this.id); // assuming this.id does not contain '#'.
Final
setTimeout(function() {
$(".cab_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas_user").each(function () {
var ids = $('#' + this.id);
// or this if you have the '#'
// var ids = $(this.id);
if (ids.length > 1 && ids[0] == this) {
$(ids[1]).remove();
}
});
One of the comments mentions
You script implies that there are multiple ids on the page: not good.
This is true if you are using the same id, which I do not think you are.
Somewhere in your HTML is an element with one of the classes .cab_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas_user, that either has no id attribute or has an empty one.
Change the line
var ids = $('[id=' + this.id + ']');
to
var ids = $('#' + this.id);
and the error will go away.
Or do a check for an empty id:
setTimeout(function() {
$(".cab_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas, .cuerpo_librovisitas_user").each(function () {
if (!this.id) return;
var ids = $('[id=' + this.id + ']');
if (ids.length > 1 && ids[0] == this) {
$(ids[1]).remove();
}
});
}
...I can't help but wonder what the purpose of the code snippet is though... trying to remove duplicated elements...? Why are they there in the first place?
I'm trying to get the HTML of a selected object with jQuery. I am aware of the .html() function; the issue is that I need the HTML including the selected object (a table row in this case, where .html() only returns the cells inside the row).
I've searched around and found a few very ‘hackish’ type methods of cloning an object, adding it to a newly created div, etc, etc, but this seems really dirty. Is there any better way, or does the new version of jQuery (1.4.2) offer any kind of outerHtml functionality?
I believe that currently (5/1/2012), all major browsers support the outerHTML function. It seems to me that this snippet is sufficient. I personally would choose to memorize this:
// Gives you the DOM element without the outside wrapper you want
$('.classSelector').html()
// Gives you the outside wrapper as well only for the first element
$('.classSelector')[0].outerHTML
// Gives you the outer HTML for all the selected elements
var html = '';
$('.classSelector').each(function () {
html += this.outerHTML;
});
//Or if you need a one liner for the previous code
$('.classSelector').get().map(function(v){return v.outerHTML}).join('');
EDIT: Basic support stats for element.outerHTML
Firefox (Gecko): 11 ....Released 2012-03-13
Chrome: 0.2 ...............Released 2008-09-02
Internet Explorer 4.0...Released 1997
Opera 7 ......................Released 2003-01-28
Safari 1.3 ...................Released 2006-01-12
No need to generate a function for it. Just do it like this:
$('a').each(function(){
var s = $(this).clone().wrap('<p>').parent().html();
console.log(s);
});
(Your browser's console will show what is logged, by the way. Most of the latest browsers since around 2009 have this feature.)
The magic is this on the end:
.clone().wrap('<p>').parent().html();
The clone means you're not actually disturbing the DOM. Run it without it and you'll see p tags inserted before/after all hyperlinks (in this example), which is undesirable. So, yes, use .clone().
The way it works is that it takes each a tag, makes a clone of it in RAM, wraps with p tags, gets the parent of it (meaning the p tag), and then gets the innerHTML property of it.
EDIT: Took advice and changed div tags to p tags because it's less typing and works the same.
2014 Edit : The question and this reply are from 2010. At the time, no better solution was widely available. Now, many of the other replies are better : Eric Hu's, or Re Capcha's for example.
This site seems to have a solution for you :
jQuery: outerHTML | Yelotofu
jQuery.fn.outerHTML = function(s) {
return s
? this.before(s).remove()
: jQuery("<p>").append(this.eq(0).clone()).html();
};
What about: prop('outerHTML')?
var outerHTML_text = $('#item-to-be-selected').prop('outerHTML');
And to set:
$('#item-to-be-selected').prop('outerHTML', outerHTML_text);
It worked for me.
PS: This is added in jQuery 1.6.
Extend jQuery:
(function($) {
$.fn.outerHTML = function() {
return $(this).clone().wrap('<div></div>').parent().html();
};
})(jQuery);
And use it like this: $("#myTableRow").outerHTML();
I agree with Arpan (Dec 13 '10 5:59).
His way of doing it is actually a MUCH better way of doing it, as you dont use clone. The clone method is very time consuming, if you have child elements, and nobody else seemed to care that IE actually HAVE the outerHTML attribute (yes IE actually have SOME useful tricks up its sleeve).
But I would probably create his script a bit different:
$.fn.outerHTML = function() {
var $t = $(this);
if ($t[0].outerHTML !== undefined) {
return $t[0].outerHTML;
} else {
var content = $t.wrap('<div/>').parent().html();
$t.unwrap();
return content;
}
};
To be truly jQuery-esque, you might want outerHTML() to be a getter and a setter and have its behaviour as similar to html() as possible:
$.fn.outerHTML = function (arg) {
var ret;
// If no items in the collection, return
if (!this.length)
return typeof arg == "undefined" ? this : null;
// Getter overload (no argument passed)
if (!arg) {
return this[0].outerHTML ||
(ret = this.wrap('<div>').parent().html(), this.unwrap(), ret);
}
// Setter overload
$.each(this, function (i, el) {
var fnRet,
pass = el,
inOrOut = el.outerHTML ? "outerHTML" : "innerHTML";
if (!el.outerHTML)
el = $(el).wrap('<div>').parent()[0];
if (jQuery.isFunction(arg)) {
if ((fnRet = arg.call(pass, i, el[inOrOut])) !== false)
el[inOrOut] = fnRet;
}
else
el[inOrOut] = arg;
if (!el.outerHTML)
$(el).children().unwrap();
});
return this;
}
Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/AndyE/WLKAa/
This allows us to pass an argument to outerHTML, which can be
a cancellable function — function (index, oldOuterHTML) { } — where the return value will become the new HTML for the element (unless false is returned).
a string, which will be set in place of the HTML of each element.
For more information, see the jQuery docs for html().
You can also use get (Retrieve the DOM elements matched by the jQuery object.).
e.g:
$('div').get(0).outerHTML;//return "<div></div>"
As extension method :
jQuery.fn.outerHTML = function () {
return this.get().map(function (v) {
return v.outerHTML
}).join()
};
Or
jQuery.fn.outerHTML = function () {
return $.map(this.get(), function (v) {
return v.outerHTML
}).join()
};
Multiple choice and return the outer html of all matched elements.
$('input').outerHTML()
return:
'<input id="input1" type="text"><input id="input2" type="text">'
To make a FULL jQuery plugin as .outerHTML, add the following script to any js file and include after jQuery in your header:
update New version has better control as well as a more jQuery Selector friendly service! :)
;(function($) {
$.extend({
outerHTML: function() {
var $ele = arguments[0],
args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1)
if ($ele && !($ele instanceof jQuery) && (typeof $ele == 'string' || $ele instanceof HTMLCollection || $ele instanceof Array)) $ele = $($ele);
if ($ele.length) {
if ($ele.length == 1) return $ele[0].outerHTML;
else return $.map($("div"), function(ele,i) { return ele.outerHTML; });
}
throw new Error("Invalid Selector");
}
})
$.fn.extend({
outerHTML: function() {
var args = [this];
if (arguments.length) for (x in arguments) args.push(arguments[x]);
return $.outerHTML.apply($, args);
}
});
})(jQuery);
This will allow you to not only get the outerHTML of one element, but even get an Array return of multiple elements at once! and can be used in both jQuery standard styles as such:
$.outerHTML($("#eleID")); // will return outerHTML of that element and is
// same as
$("#eleID").outerHTML();
// or
$.outerHTML("#eleID");
// or
$.outerHTML(document.getElementById("eleID"));
For multiple elements
$("#firstEle, .someElesByClassname, tag").outerHTML();
Snippet Examples:
console.log('$.outerHTML($("#eleID"))'+"\t", $.outerHTML($("#eleID")));
console.log('$("#eleID").outerHTML()'+"\t\t", $("#eleID").outerHTML());
console.log('$("#firstEle, .someElesByClassname, tag").outerHTML()'+"\t", $("#firstEle, .someElesByClassname, tag").outerHTML());
var checkThisOut = $("div").outerHTML();
console.log('var checkThisOut = $("div").outerHTML();'+"\t\t", checkThisOut);
$.each(checkThisOut, function(i, str){ $("div").eq(i).text("My outerHTML Was: " + str); });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/JDMcKinstry/ce699e82c7e07d02bae82e642fb4275f/raw/deabd0663adf0d12f389ddc03786468af4033ad2/jQuery.outerHTML.js"></script>
<div id="eleID">This will</div>
<div id="firstEle">be Replaced</div>
<div class="someElesByClassname">At RunTime</div>
<h3><tag>Open Console to see results</tag></h3>
you can also just do it this way
document.getElementById(id).outerHTML
where id is the id of the element that you are looking for
I used Jessica's solution (which was edited by Josh) to get outerHTML to work on Firefox. The problem however is that my code was breaking because her solution wrapped the element into a DIV. Adding one more line of code solved that problem.
The following code gives you the outerHTML leaving the DOM tree unchanged.
$jq.fn.outerHTML = function() {
if ($jq(this).attr('outerHTML'))
return $jq(this).attr('outerHTML');
else
{
var content = $jq(this).wrap('<div></div>').parent().html();
$jq(this).unwrap();
return content;
}
}
And use it like this: $("#myDiv").outerHTML();
Hope someone finds it useful!
// no cloning necessary
var x = $('#xxx').wrapAll('<div></div>').parent().html();
alert(x);
Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/ezmilhouse/Mv76a/
If the scenario is appending a new row dynamically, you can use this:
var row = $(".myRow").last().clone();
$(".myRow").last().after(row);
.myrow is the classname of the <tr>. It makes a copy of the last row and inserts that as a new last row.
This also works in IE7, while the [0].outerHTML method does not allow assignments in ie7
node.cloneNode() hardly seems like a hack. You can clone the node and append it to any desired parent element, and also manipulate it by manipulating individual properties, rather than having to e.g. run regular expressions on it, or add it in to the DOM, then manipulate it afterwords.
That said, you could also iterate over the attributes of the element to construct an HTML string representation of it. It seems likely this is how any outerHTML function would be implemented were jQuery to add one.
I've used Volomike's solution updated by Jessica. Just added a check to see if the element exists, and made it return blank in case it doesn't.
jQuery.fn.outerHTML = function() {
return $(this).length > 0 ? $(this).clone().wrap('<div />').parent().html() : '';
};
Of course, use it like:
$('table#buttons').outerHTML();
You can find a good .outerHTML() option here https://github.com/darlesson/jquery-outerhtml.
Unlike .html() that returns only the element's HTML content, this version of .outerHTML() returns the selected element and its HTML content or replaces it as .replaceWith() method but with the difference that allows the replacing HTML to be inherit by the chaining.
Examples can also be seeing in the URL above.
This is quite simple with vanilla JavaScript...
document.querySelector('#selector')
Note that Josh's solution only works for a single element.
Arguably, "outer" HTML only really makes sense when you have a single element, but there are situations where it makes sense to take a list of HTML elements and turn them into markup.
Extending Josh's solution, this one will handle multiple elements:
(function($) {
$.fn.outerHTML = function() {
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.length>1)
return $.map($this, function(el){ return $(el).outerHTML(); }).join('');
return $this.clone().wrap('<div/>').parent().html();
}
})(jQuery);
Edit: another problem with Josh's solution fixed, see comment above.
Anothe similar solution with added remove() of the temporary DOM object.
I have made this simple test with outerHTML being tokimon solution (without clone), and outerHTML2 being jessica solution (clone)
console.time("outerHTML");
for(i=0;i<1000;i++)
{
var html = $("<span style='padding:50px; margin:50px; display:block'><input type='text' title='test' /></span>").outerHTML();
}
console.timeEnd("outerHTML");
console.time("outerHTML2");
for(i=0;i<1000;i++)
{
var html = $("<span style='padding:50px; margin:50px; display:block'><input type='text' title='test' /></span>").outerHTML2();
}
console.timeEnd("outerHTML2");
and the result in my chromium (Version 20.0.1132.57 (0)) browser was
outerHTML: 81ms
outerHTML2: 439ms
but if we use tokimon solution without the native outerHTML function (which is now supported in probably almost every browser)
we get
outerHTML: 594ms
outerHTML2: 332ms
and there are gonna be more loops and elements in real world examples, so the perfect combination would be
$.fn.outerHTML = function()
{
$t = $(this);
if( "outerHTML" in $t[0] ) return $t[0].outerHTML;
else return $t.clone().wrap('<p>').parent().html();
}
so clone method is actually faster than wrap/unwrap method
(jquery 1.7.2)
Here is a very optimized outerHTML plugin for jquery:
(http://jsperf.com/outerhtml-vs-jquery-clone-hack/5 => the 2 others fast code snippets are not compatible with some browsers like FF < 11)
(function($) {
var DIV = document.createElement("div"),
outerHTML;
if ('outerHTML' in DIV) {
outerHTML = function(node) {
return node.outerHTML;
};
} else {
outerHTML = function(node) {
var div = DIV.cloneNode();
div.appendChild(node.cloneNode(true));
return div.innerHTML;
};
}
$.fn.outerHTML = function() {
return this.length ? outerHTML(this[0]) : void(0);
};
})(jQuery);
#Andy E => I don't agree with you. outerHMTL doesn't need a getter AND a setter: jQuery already give us 'replaceWith'...
#mindplay => Why are you joining all outerHTML? jquery.html return only the HTML content of the FIRST element.
(Sorry, don't have enough reputation to write comments)
Short and sweet.
[].reduce($('.x'), function(i,v) {return i+v.outerHTML}, '')
or event more sweet with help of arrow functions
[].reduce.call($('.x'), (i,v) => i+v.outerHTML, '')
or without jQuery at all
[].reduce.call(document.querySelectorAll('.x'), (i,v) => i+v.outerHTML, '')
or if you don't like this approach, check that
$('.x').get().reduce((i,v) => i+v.outerHTML, '')
This is great for changing elements on the dom but does NOT work for ie when passing in a html string into jquery like this:
$('<div id="foo">Some <span id="blog">content</span></div>').find('#blog').outerHTML();
After some manipulation I have created a function which allows the above to work in ie for html strings:
$.fn.htmlStringOuterHTML = function() {
this.parent().find(this).wrap('<div/>');
return this.parent().html();
};
$.html = el => $("<div>"+el+"</div>").html().trim();
I came across this while looking for an answer to my issue which was that I was trying to remove a table row then add it back in at the bottom of the table (because I was dynamically creating data rows but wanted to show an 'Add New Record' type row at the bottom).
I had the same issue, in that it was returning the innerHtml so was missing the TR tags, which held the ID of that row and meant it was impossible to repeat the procedure.
The answer I found was that the jquery remove() function actually returns the element, that it removes, as an object. So, to remove and re-add a row it was as simple as this...
var a = $("#trRowToRemove").remove();
$('#tblMyTable').append(a);
If you're not removing the object but want to copy it somewhere else, use the clone() function instead.
jQuery plugin as a shorthand to directly get the whole element HTML:
jQuery.fn.outerHTML = function () {
return jQuery('<div />').append(this.eq(0).clone()).html();
};
And use it like this: $(".element").outerHTML();
Pure JavaScript:
var outerHTML = function(node) {
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.appendChild(node.cloneNode(true));
return div.innerHTML;
};
$("#myNode").parent(x).html();
Where 'x' is the node number, beginning with 0 as the first one, should get the right node you want, if you're trying to get a specific one. If you have child nodes, you should really be putting an ID on the one you want, though, to just zero in on that one. Using that methodology and no 'x' worked fine for me.
Simple solution.
var myself = $('#div').children().parent();
$("#myTable").parent().html();
Perhaps I'm not understanding your question properly, but this will get the selected element's parent element's html.
Is that what you're after?
My function to implement the search is below. The issue I have is I need to track what rows I have to go through to find the URL. I'm building a navigation "widget" and I need it to expand to the correct place based on the URL. Seeing as the URL could be N rows deep, I need a method to track the rows that it passed through.
E.G: row[1].tree.row[3].tree.row[0] , this way I know to expand the navigation for the second element, then the fourth element, then highlight the first element in that list.
The issue is with the rowNum = rowNum+"x"+x; that I pass back to the function. I think I might be overtired when I thought that would work, I didn't think it through.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
I had another question out there about this same function, but this question is different. Is it bad form to submit an additional question?
function lmIntra_LeftNavBuilder_findURL(url)
{
return lmIntra_LeftNavBuilder_searchJson(jsonLNav.tree[0],url,null);
}//end findURL
function lmIntra_LeftNavBuilder_searchJson(tree,url,rowNum)
{
if(rowNum == null)
{
rowNum="";
}
for(var x=0; x<=tree.rows.length-1;x++)
{
var cururl = "";
if(typeof tree.rows[x] ==="undefined")
{
cururl="";
}else
{
var cururl = tree.rows[x].url;
}
if(url == cururl )
{
//return tree.rows[x].title;
return rowNum + " treeDepth:"+tree.pos;
}//end if
else
{
if(typeof tree.rows[x]!= "undefined")
{
if(typeof tree.rows[x].tree.rows != "undefined")
{
rowNum = rowNum+"x"+x;
var t = lmIntra_LeftNavBuilder_searchJson( tree.rows[x].tree,url,rowNum);
if (t) return t;
}//end if
}//end if typeof tree.rows[x].tree!= "undefined"
}//end else
}//end for
}//end searchJson
Here's a simpler json object. It's fully formed, it just doesn't have the depth. The full one is 38K characters, so I'll leave it out.
var jsonLNav = {itemClassName:"NodeLink",linkClassName:"NodeLinkTitle",linkHideClassName:"HideFromProd",navCategoryClassName:"NavCategory",onLoadJS:"",tree:[{pos:1,wid:"263a97c2-7cb9-470c-bf86-cadc28ae1323",pid:"1",rows:[{hide:0,title:"More IT Help",isNC:0,isMig:0,url:"http://vm-hsspdv-d09p/en-us/Help/Pages/ITHelp.aspx",isOL:0,tree:{pos:2,wid:"263a97c2-7cb9-470c-bf86-cadc28ae1323",pid:"3"}},{hide:0,title:"Office 2010",isNC:0,isMig:1,url:"http://office2010.lmig.com/Pages/Default.aspx",isOL:0,tree:{pos:2,wid:"263a97c2-7cb9-470c-bf86-cadc28ae1323",pid:"9"}},{hide:0,title:"E-mail Management",isNC:0,isMig:0,url:"http://vm-hsspdv-d09p/en-us/Help/EmailManagement/Pages/default.aspx",isOL:0,tree:{pos:2,wid:"8be66348-8da1-4e5c-90c5-0930d2f52d1a",pid:"123"}},]}]};
If you really want to stick with the approach you have, though, I don't think it's really too far off. If I understand what you want, the biggest problem is that you need to do something like:
if(url == cururl )
{
rowNum = rowNum+"x"+x;
return rowNum + " treeDepth:"+tree.pos;
}
Presumably everything that exists in this tree maps to something that exists in the DOM, right? I think the most sensible option would be to stop traversing this object to find what you want, use a library like jQuery with a selector engine to select the node you want, and then use said library to traverse back up the DOM. Even traversing the DOM without a library might be easier for you.
I'm trying to re-sort the child elements of the tag input by comparing
their category attribute to the category order in the Javascript
variable category_sort_order. Then I need to remove divs whose category attribute
does not appear in category_sort_order.
The expected result should be:
any
product1
product2
download
The code:
<div id="input">
<div category="download">download</div>
<div category="video">video1</div>
<div category="video">video2</div>
<div category="product">product1</div>
<div category="any">any</div>
<div category="product">product2</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var category_sort_order = ['any', 'product', 'download'];
</script>
I really don't even know where to begin with this task but if you could please provide any assistance whatsoever I would be extremely grateful.
I wrote a jQuery plugin to do this kind of thing that can be easily adapted for your use case.
The original plugin is here
Here's a revamp for you question
(function($) {
$.fn.reOrder = function(array) {
return this.each(function() {
if (array) {
for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++)
array[i] = $('div[category="' + array[i] + '"]');
$(this).empty();
for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++)
$(this).append(array[i]);
}
});
}
})(jQuery);
and use like so
var category_sort_order = ['any', 'product', 'download'];
$('#input').reOrder(category_sort_order);
This happens to get the right order for the products this time as product1 appears before product2 in the original list, but it could be changed easily to sort categories first before putting into the array and appending to the DOM. Also, if using this for a number of elements, it could be improved by appending all elements in the array in one go instead of iterating over the array and appending one at a time. This would probably be a good case for DocumentFragments.
Just note,
Since there is jQuery 1.3.2 sorting is simple without any plugin like:
$('#input div').sort(CustomSort).appendTo('#input');
function CustomSort( a ,b ){
//your custom sort function returning -1 or 1
//where a , b are $('#input div') elements
}
This will sort all div that are childs of element with id="input" .
Here is how to do it. I used this SO question as a reference.
I tested this code and it works properly for your example:
$(document).ready(function() {
var categories = new Array();
var content = new Array();
//Get Divs
$('#input > [category]').each(function(i) {
//Add to local array
categories[i] = $(this).attr('category');
content[i] = $(this).html();
});
$('#input').empty();
//Sort Divs
var category_sort_order = ['any', 'product', 'download'];
for(i = 0; i < category_sort_order.length; i++) {
//Grab all divs in this category and add them back to the form
for(j = 0; j < categories.length; j++) {
if(categories[j] == category_sort_order[i]) {
$('#input').append('<div category="' +
category_sort_order[i] + '">'
+ content[j] + '</div>');
}
};
}
});
How it works
First of all, this code requires the JQuery library. If you're not currently using it, I highly recommend it.
The code starts by getting all the child divs of the input div that contain a category attribute. Then it saves their html content and their category to two separate arrays (but in the same location.
Next it clears out all the divs under the input div.
Finally, it goes through your categories in the order you specify in the array and appends the matching child divs in the correct order.
The For loop section
#eyelidlessness does a good job of explaining for loops, but I'll also take a whack at it. in the context of this code.
The first line:
for(i = 0; i < category_sort_order.length; i++) {
Means that the code which follows (everything within the curly brackets { code }) will be repeated a number of times. Though the format looks archaic (and sorta is) it says:
Create a number variable called i and set it equal to zero
If that variable is less than the number of items in the category_sort_order array, then do whats in the brackets
When the brackets finish, add one to the variable i (i++ means add one)
Then it repeats step two and three until i is finally bigger than the number of categories in that array.
A.K.A whatever is in the brackets will be run once for every category.
Moving on... for each category, another loop is called. This one:
for(j = 0; j < categories.length; j++) {
loops through all of the categories of the divs that we just deleted from the screen.
Within this loop, the if statement checks if any of the divs from the screen match the current category. If so, they are appending, if not the loop continues searching till it goes through every div.
Appending (or prepending) the DOM nodes again will actually sort them in the order you want.
Using jQuery, you just have to select them in the order you want and append (or prepend) them to their container again.
$(['any', 'product', 'video'])
.map(function(index, category)
{
return $('[category='+category+']');
})
.prependTo('#input');
Sorry, missed that you wanted to remove nodes not in your category list. Here is the corrected version:
// Create a jQuery from our array of category names,
// it won't be usable in the DOM but still some
// jQuery methods can be used
var divs = $(['any', 'product', 'video'])
// Replace each category name in our array by the
// actual DOM nodes selected using the attribute selector
// syntax of jQuery.
.map(function(index, category)
{
// Here we need to do .get() to return an array of DOM nodes
return $('[category='+category+']').get();
});
// Remove everything in #input and replace them by our DOM nodes.
$('#input').empty().append(divs);
// The trick here is that DOM nodes are selected
// in the order we want them in the end.
// So when we append them again to the document,
// they will be appended in the order we want.
I thought this was a really interesting problem, here is an easy, but not incredibly performant sorting solution that I came up with.
You can view the test page on jsbin here: http://jsbin.com/ocuta
function compare(x, y, context){
if($.inArray(x, context) > $.inArray(y, context)) return 1;
}
function dom_sort(selector, order_list) {
$items = $(selector);
var dirty = false;
for(var i = 0; i < ($items.length - 1); i++) {
if (compare($items.eq(i).attr('category'), $items.eq(i+1).attr('category'), order_list)) {
dirty = true;
$items.eq(i).before($items.eq(i+1).remove());
}
}
if (dirty) setTimeout(function(){ dom_sort(selector, order_list); }, 0);
};
dom_sort('#input div[category]', category_sort_order);
Note that the setTimeout might not be necessary, but it just feels safer. Your call.
You could probably clean up some performance by storing a reference to the parent and just getting children each time, instead of re-running the selector. I was going for simplicity though. You have to call the selector each time, because the order changes in a sort, and I'm not storing a reference to the parent anywhere.
It's seems fairly direct to use the sort method for this one:
var category_sort_order = ['any', 'product', 'download'];
// select your categories
$('#input > div')
// filter the selection down to wanted items
.filter(function(){
// get the categories index in the sort order list ("weight")
var w = $.inArray( $(this).attr('category'), category_sort_order );
// in the sort order list?
if ( w > -1 ) {
// this item should be sorted, we'll store it's sorting index, and keep it
$( this ).data( 'sortindex', w );
return true;
}
else {
// remove the item from the DOM and the selection
$( this ).remove();
return false;
}
})
// sort the remainder of the items
.sort(function(a, b){
// use the previously defined values to compare who goes first
return $( a ).data( 'sortindex' ) -
$( b ).data( 'sortindex' );
})
// reappend the selection into it's parent node to "apply" it
.appendTo( '#input' );
If you happen to be using an old version of jQuery (1.2) that doesn't have the sort method, you can add it with this:
jQuery.fn.sort = Array.prototype.sort;