How to sort by values ​​inside list items?

Question

JavaScript

There is a list like:

<ul>
  <li>Книг <span>15</span></li>
  <li>Журналов <span>5</span></li>
  <li>Альбомов <span>25</span></li>
</ul>

How to make it so that the item with the largest number in the span is displayed in the first place in the list?

Answer 1

$('li').sort((a, b) => $('span', b).text() - $('span', a).text()).appendTo('ul');

Answer 2

If the list is derived from a PHP array, then use the function to sort the associative array by key https://qna.habr.com/answer?answer_id=1544113#answ...