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Order jQuery UI Sortable through An Array
I am using jQuery's Sortable UI (http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/#option-connectWith) for part of a quiz I am creating that will ask the user to sort list items in the correct order.
I have managed to save a users selection by iterating through my list items and storing the class names for each item as a comma-delimited string.
Is there a way for me to be able to parse an array of values to jQuery Sortable plugin in order to sort my list in order as presented within the array?
I have managed to save a users selection by iterating through my list items and storing the class names for each item as a comma-delimited string.
Is there a way for me to be able to parse an array of values to jQuery Sortable plugin in order to sort my list in order as presented within the array?
Michel Plungjan
Sorry I do not get what you are trying to do, please elaborate
ASKER
I basically would like to pass array of values to the jQuery Sortable plugin. The plugin is applied to the following list:
As you can see, from the code above, when a user views the page they have to sort the items in correct order. I am using the "class" attribute as values to store to a variable in a comma-delimited string format on button click.
The values a user submits to a variable could be: "b, a, d , c". I have already created this functionality by iterating through all <li> in jQuery and storing them.
All I would like to be able to do is be able to reorder the list items by passing the variable containing "b, a, d , c" to some function.
<script>
$(function() {
$( "#sortable" ).sortable();
$( "#sortable" ).disableSelection();
});
</script>
<ul id="sortable">
<li class="b">Item 2</li>
<li class="d">Item 4</li>
<li class="a">Item 1</li>
<li class="c">Item 3</li>
</ul>As you can see, from the code above, when a user views the page they have to sort the items in correct order. I am using the "class" attribute as values to store to a variable in a comma-delimited string format on button click.
The values a user submits to a variable could be: "b, a, d , c". I have already created this functionality by iterating through all <li> in jQuery and storing them.
All I would like to be able to do is be able to reorder the list items by passing the variable containing "b, a, d , c" to some function.
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Thanks for your help mplungjan. Using your info has actually helped me with another part of my site.
I also managed to find through your StackOverflow like a related post that I found very useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858121/convert-javascript-comma-separated-string-into-an-array
I also managed to find through your StackOverflow like a related post that I found very useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858121/convert-javascript-comma-separated-string-into-an-array
ASKER
The reply didn't fully solve my issue. But the link provided me with some good info to look into.
Great - I am not sure, however how the fiddle did not help you to fully achieve your goal of having the li's sorted initially.