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    copied!<p>I am trying to sort the elements inside conainer using jquery, I have used this fiddle as a reference <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/tc5dc/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/tc5dc/</a>. I dont know what is possibly wrong ?? </p> <p>Also if there is any other way i can get this done in a more simple and DRY way.</p> <pre><code> &lt;div class="container"&gt;&lt;!--Container--&gt; &lt;div class="element"&gt;&lt;!--Single element--&gt; &lt;div class="child1"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="child2"&gt; &lt;div class="stats right"&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="inv"&gt;0&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id ="mInv"class="sort" &gt;Inv&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="con"&gt;14&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id="mCon" class="sort" &gt;Con&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="ts"&gt;66&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id="mTs" class="sort" &gt;TS&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="element"&gt;&lt;!--Single element--&gt; &lt;div class="child1"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="child2"&gt; &lt;div class="stats right"&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="inv"&gt;10&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id ="mInv"class="sort" &gt;Inv&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="con"&gt;12&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id="mCon" class="sort" &gt;Con&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="ts"&gt;90&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id="mTs" class="sort" &gt;TS&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="element"&gt;&lt;!--Single element--&gt; &lt;div class="child1"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="child2"&gt; &lt;div class="stats right"&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="inv"&gt;17&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id ="mInv"class="sort" &gt;Inv&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="con"&gt;81&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id="mCon" class="sort" &gt;Con&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="stat"&gt; &lt;h1 class="ts"&gt;124&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h4 id="mTs" class="sort" &gt;TS&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>JS</strong></p> <pre><code>function sortUsingNestedText(parent, childSelector, keySelector) { var items = parent.children(childSelector).sort(function(a, b) { var vA = $(keySelector, a).text(); var vB = $(keySelector, b).text(); return (vA &lt; vB) ? -1 : (vA &gt; vB) ? 1 : 0; }); parent.append(items); } /* setup sort attributes */ $('#mInv').data("sortKey", "h1.inv"); $('#mCon').data("sortKey", "h1.con"); $('#mTs').data("sortKey", "h1.ts"); /* sort on button click */ $("h4.sort").click(function() { sortUsingNestedText($('#sortThis'), "div", $(this).data("sortKey")); </code></pre>
 

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