I thought you wanted to insert the new element in order according to the
*Greek* alphabet. That will take a bit of extra work.
-Mike
> From: Tbone
>
> Thanks to you, too, ksun....Between you and Ricardo, I think
> I understand this now!
>
> On Dec 22, 11:42 am, ksun <kavi.sunda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > //locate the div before which you want to insert and then insert,
> > assuming they are ordered alphabetically
> > $('div[id]').each(function(){
> > if ($(this).attr('id') > 'delta')
> > $(this).before('<div
> > id="delta"/>');
> > });
> >
> > I think there is no selector that will do the same, but I may be
> > wrong.
> > On Dec 22, 12:32 pm, Tbone <95dak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Great! Thanks...
> > > However, I'm more clueless than I should be...and didn't pose the
> > > complete question...
> >
> > > I have the divs as shown above, how do I locate where <div
> > > id="delta"></div> would go?
> > > Obviously between gamma and epsilon, but I need to search the ids
> > > for the first (id > "delta"). Then I can use your insert to
> > > properly place it. I assume I use a selector, but am not
> sure how
> > > to put it together.
> >
> > > On Dec 22, 10:25 am, ksun <kavi.sunda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > try this, it will insert gamma1 before epsilon.
> >
> > > > $('#gamma~#epsilon').before('<div id="gamma1"/>');
> >
> > > > I first used after(), but that didn't work, looks like $
> > > > ('#gamma~#epsilon') selects #epsilon.- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > > - Show quoted text -
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