Question

I’m doing sorting of a list of elements, using:

jQuery.fn.sort = function() {
   return this.pushStack( [].sort.apply( this, arguments ), []);
 };


$("ol li").sort("sortFunction").appendTo("ol");

The problem is in the sortFunction.

function sortFunction($a, $b) {
  ...
}

Basically, what I want is to treat both $a and $b as jQuery objects, so I can manipulate them.

e.g, inside the sortFunction do

$a.find("div#3 li").html();

This doesn’t work since $a and $b are native javascript objects.

Any help?

Answer 1

They are native DOM elements. You can call the jQuery function on one to wrap it, so that the jQuery functions are available:

$($a).find(...)