Random sort of a list?

**gwmbox** · 03-20-2010, 10:25 AM

Hi guys

I wonder if you can help me, if I have a list of items

Code:

<li>item</li>
<li>item2</li>
and so on....

and there can be between 15 and 100 of them listed, is it possible for that list to be randomly sorted on each page load?

Thanks

**vwphillips** · 03-20-2010, 10:58 AM

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
<ul id="tst">
  <li>tom</li>
  <li>****</li>
  <li>harry</li>
</ul>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/

function RandomList(id){
 var ul=document.getElementById(id);
 var lis=ul.getElementsByTagName('*')
 for (var ary=[],z0=0;z0<lis.length;z0++){
  if (lis[z0].parentNode==ul){
   ary.push(lis[z0]);
  }
 }
 ary.shuffle();
 for (var z1=0;z1<ary.length;z1++){
  ul.appendChild(ary[z1]);
 }
}

Array.prototype.shuffle=function(){
 for (var r,t,z0=0;z0<this.length;z0++){
  r=Math.floor(Math.random()*this.length);
  t=this[z0];
  this[z0]=this[r];
  this[r]=t;
 }
}

RandomList('tst')
/*]]>*/
</script>

</body>

</html>

**gwmbox** · 03-20-2010, 11:05 AM

wow thanks for such a quick reply with a solution, please know it is greatly appreciated

Cheers

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