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Ordering fields
Anyone know how to order a SELECT field in html in alphabetical order?
I'm too lazy to find the alphabetical positioning of the options, so i just want to sort them.
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no built in method, but you can use such code:
Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function SortCombo(objCombo, ascending, byText)
{
for (var i=0; i<objCombo.options.length; i++)
{
var minMaxIndex=i;
var minMaxValue=(byText)?objCombo.options[i].text:objCombo.options[i].value;
for (var j=i+1; j<objCombo.options.length; j++)
{
var currentIndex=j;
var currentValue=(byText)?objCombo.options[j].text:objCombo.options[j].value;
if (((ascending)&&(currentValue < minMaxValue))||((!ascending)&&(currentValue > minMaxValue)))
{
minMaxIndex = j;
minMaxValue = currentValue;
}
}
if (minMaxIndex != i)
ReplaceComboItems(objCombo, i, minMaxIndex);
}
}
function ReplaceComboItems(objCombo, index1, index2)
{
var strTemp=objCombo.options[index1].text;
objCombo.options[index1].text = objCombo.options[index2].text;
objCombo.options[index2].text = strTemp;
strTemp=objCombo.options[index1].value;
objCombo.options[index1].value = objCombo.options[index2].value;
objCombo.options[index2].value = strTemp;
}
</script>
to activate it, you have to tell it what combo to sort, whether to sort it ascending or not and whether to sort it by the text or value. for example, if you have form called "form1" with combo called "combo1" and you have to sort it by the text (what you actually see) in ascending order, have this in the body tag:
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January 17th, 2005, 05:22 AM
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