Let's say I have a list of items under a div or UL. I want to take all the list items with the same title attribute and wrap a UL around it. The next part though is that I want that UL to be under the LI with the same attribute. So, I'm trying to group basically.
So.... I start with.....
<li>Insurance</li>
<li>Education</li>
<li>Sports</li>
<li>Construction</li>
<li title ="Insurance">Malpractice</li>
<li title ="Construction">Carpentry</li>
<li title ="Education">College</li>
<li title ="Insurance">Automobile</li>
<li title ="Education">High School</li>
<li title ="Construction">Iron Worker</li>
and I want to get to......
<li>Insurance
<ul>
<li title ="Insurance">Malpractice</li>
<li title ="Insurance">Automobile</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Education
<ul>
<li title ="Education">College</li>
<li title ="Education">High School</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Sports</li>
<li>Construction
<ul>
<li title ="Construction">Carpentry</li>
<li title ="Construction">Iron Worker</li>
</ul>
</li>
Any help would be appreciated. Obviously new to the jquery and javascript world so I'm trying to wrap my brain around this.
// first we fetch all items without title attribute
var topLevel = $('li:not([title])');
// for each of those...
topLevel.each(function() {
var li = $(this),
// ... we get its text ...
title = li.text(),
// ... and other li elements with the corresponding title
children = $('li[title="' + title + '"]');
// if there are any...
if (children.length > 0) {
// ... create an empty list ...
var ul = $('<ul></ul>');
// ... fill it and ...
children.appendTo(ul);
// ... append it to the original li element
ul.appendTo(li);
}
});
jQuery documentation: :not()
, [title]
, each()
, appendTo()
Input:
<div id="stuffs">
<li>Insurance</li>
<li>Education</li>
<li>Sports</li>
<li>Construction</li>
<li title ="Insurance">Malpractice</li>
<li title ="Construction">Carpentry</li>
<li title ="Education">College</li>
<li title ="Insurance">Automobile</li>
<li title ="Education">High School</li>
<li title ="Construction">Iron Worker</li>
</div>
jQuery:
$("#stuffs li").each(function(){
$("#stuffs li[title='"+$(this).text()+"']").appendTo($(this)).wrapAll("<ul />");
});
Output:
<div id="stuffs">
<ul>
<li>Insurance
<ul>
<li title="Insurance">Malpractice</li>
<li title="Insurance">Automobile</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Education
<ul>
<li title="Education">College</li>
<li title="Education">High School</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Sports</li>
<li>Construction
<ul>
<li title="Construction">Carpentry</li>
<li title="Construction">Iron Worker</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Smile :-)
Demo here
This should work
$('#id li:not([title])').append('<ul />');
$('#id li[title]').each(function() {
$(this).appendTo('#id li:contains(' + $(this).attr('title') + ') ul');
})
A demo