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inDOMOrder jQuery Plugin

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jQuery Plugin for returning selected DOM Nodes in DOM order. e.g. $('img.L,img.Y') will not be guaranteed DOM order (usually all the L's then all the Y's).

Currently only works with IE and FF (that's all I needed).

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  1. (function($){
  2.  
  3.     $.fn.sort = function() {
  4.         return this.pushStack($.makeArray( [].sort.apply(this, arguments)));
  5.     };
  6.  
  7.     function DOMOrderComparator(a,b){
  8.         if($.browser.msie){
  9.             return a.sourceIndex - b.sourceIndex;
  10.         }else if($.browser.mozilla){
  11.             return 3 - (a.compareDocumentPosition(b) & 6);
  12.         }
  13.     }
  14.  
  15.     $.fn.inDOMOrder = function(){
  16.         return this.sort(DOMOrderComparator)
  17.     }
  18. })(jQuery);

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