Question

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Here is working example for separate numeral and alphabetical sort.

It works well, the problem is, it doesn’t sort alphabetically items with equal <em> number.

E.g. it gives Salpinestars(58), Joe Rocket (58) on numeral sort. Should give reverse order.

I’ve tried to change items.sort(sortEm).prependTo(self); to items.sort(sortAlpha).sort(sortEm).prependTo(self);, but it doesn’t work.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Use this sortEm():

function sortEm(a,b){
  var emA = parseInt($('em',a).text().replace(/[\(\)]/g,''));
  var emB = parseInt($('em',b).text().replace(/[\(\)]/g,''));
  if (emA == emB) { // sort alphabetically if em number are equal
    return sortAlpha(a,b);
  }
  return emA < emB ? 1 : -1;
}