So, I came across an interesting development problem. I was embedding a ‘select’ list from a 3rd party web service, and I wanted to re-order the items shown. More specifically, I wanted the most commonly selected elements to be at the top of the list. Because I couldn’t access the raw HTML, directly changing the order was not an option. jQuery to the rescue! Here’s a small snippet I came up with that did just the trick:
$('option[value='myVal']').detach().prepend('select.mySelect');
Viola! Way easy!
