Question

I have the following code:

<li>This is 
  <div class="item1">item1</div>
  <div class="item3">item3</div>
  <div class="item2">item2</div>
a test</li>​

I would like to arrange the li as follows <li>This is a test | div item1 | div item2 | div item3 </li>

Is it possible to do that without using javascript? Only css? If not can you provide a sample in javascript?

Thanks

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/LceqM/

var li = document.getElementById("theli"),
    textNodes = [], first;

var elem = li.firstChild;

while( elem ) {
    if( elem.nodeType === 3 ) textNodes.push(elem);
    elem = elem.nextSibling;
}

if( textNodes.length ) {
    first = textNodes.shift();
    li.insertBefore( first, li.firstChild );

    while( textNodes.length ) {
        li.insertBefore( textNodes.pop(), first.nextSibling );   
    }
}

​