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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:41:18+00:00

I have the following structure: <div id=container> <div id=someid1 style=float:right></div> <div id=someid2 style=float:right></div> <div

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I have the following structure:

<div id="container">
<div id="someid1" style="float:right"></div>
<div id="someid2" style="float:right"></div>
<div id="someid3" style="float:right"></div>
<div id="someid4" style="float:right"></div>
</div>

Now someid is acually a unique id for that div. Now i receive an array which has a different order say someid 3,2,1,4, then how do i move these divs around to match the new order using jQuery?

Thankyou very much for your time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    My plugin version – Working Demo

    Takes an array and optional id prefix and reorders elements whose ids correspond to the order of (id prefix) + values inside the array. Any values in the array that don’t have an element with the corresponding id will be ignored, and any child elements that do not have an id within the array will be removed.

    (function($) {

$.fn.reOrder = function(array, prefix) {
  return this.each(function() {
    prefix = prefix || "";

    if (array) {    
      for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++) 
        array[i] = $('#' + prefix + array[i]);

      $(this).empty();  

      for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++)
        $(this).append(array[i]);      
    }
  });    
}
})(jQuery);

    Code from the demo

    jQuery

     $(function() {
  $('#go').click(function() {

    var order = $('#order').val() == ""? null: $('#order').val().split(",");
    $('#container').reOrder(order, 'someid');
  });
});

(function($) {

$.fn.reOrder = function(array, prefix) {
  return this.each(function() {
    prefix = prefix || "";

    if (array) {    
      for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++) 
        array[i] = $('#' + prefix + array[i]);

      $(this).empty();  

      for(var i=0; i < array.length; i++)
        $(this).append(array[i]);      
    }
  });    
}
})(jQuery);

    HTML

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<title>reOrder Demo</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body { background-color: #fff; font: 16px Helvetica, Arial; color: #000; }
div.style { width: 200px; height: 100px; border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="someid1" class="style" style="background-color:green;">div1</div>
<div id="someid2" class="style" style="background-color:blue;">div2</div>
<div id="someid3" class="style" style="background-color:red;">div3</div>
<div id="someid4" class="style" style="background-color:purple;">div4</div>
</div>
<p>Pass in a comma separated list of numbers 1-4 to reorder divs</p>
<input id="order" type="text" />
<input id="go" type="button" value="Re-Order" />


</body>
</html>
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