- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:34:02 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Biju wrote:
>
> There are many cases where we want to sort child nodes of a DOM node.
> Many times it is TR nodes of a TBODY
>
> Right now user writes javascript code to achive that.
> Dont you think it is better if there was built DOM method for each node.
> Additionally the method will have a sort function parameter to compare elements
> the same way as in JavaScript Array.sort(compare_func)
>
> function compare_func(a,b){
> if(isHeaderRow(a)) return -1;
> if(isHeaderRow(b)) return 1;
> if(a.textContent == b.textContent) return 0;
> if(a.textContent < b.textContent) return -1;
> return 1;
> }
> tablebody.sortChildNodes(compare_func)
>
> Use cases:-
> Example 1: column sorting in yahoo mail
>
> Example 2: you can sort this listing by clicking the column headers
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc=sort&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&resolution=---
>
> Example 2: there are bug report in mozilla asking sorting in XUL grids
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=482890&hide_resolved=1
This would indeed be useful. It seems like something that should be in DOM
Core, though, rather than HTML. Do we have anyone editing Web DOM Core
these days?
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Received on Wednesday, 4 August 2010 14:34:02 UTC