alphabetize a list of html elements in place in javascript

You can use a combination of DOM manipulation and array sorting to alphabetize a list of HTML elements in place. Here's an example:

index.tsx
// Get the parent element that contains the list items
const parent = document.getElementById('my-list');

// Get all the list items as an array
const items = Array.from(parent.children);

// Sort the array of items by their text content
items.sort((a, b) => a.textContent.localeCompare(b.textContent));

// Loop through the sorted items and append them to the parent element in order
for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
  parent.appendChild(items[i]);
}
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In this example, we first get the parent element that contains the list items using getElementById. We then convert the list items to an array using Array.from. We can then sort the array using the sort method, passing in a comparison function that compares the textContent of each element.

After the array is sorted, we loop through the items and append them back to the parent element in their new order. This effectively "alphabetizes" the list in place without the need for creating a new list.