Disable automatic sort

[eliashdezr]

Hi, I'm receiving a pre-ordered list (JSON) but when I loaded into the selectize control, it re-orders the list by the Id and I don't want this. How I can let selectize use the order of my JSON?

This is the JSFiddle example:
http://jsfiddle.net/LYYab/

Thanks.

[erlingur]

I would also like to be able to disable automatic sorting. It's really, really frustrating that Selectize automatically messes with the order of options that are added to it.

Is there no way to disable autosort?

[antsa]

@eliashdez @erlingur Remove sortField: "text" from the selectize options to disable the auto sorting.

[erlingur]

@antsa I don't have that. I use the default configuration of $("#element").selectize() and it still does the auto sorting.

[antsa]

And you are using 0.8.5? Without the sortField option it works as expected for me with just a selectelement with options inside of it.

The example of @eliashdez seemed to work differently with loading the data from JSON, where sorting happened. Here the trick seemed to be to set the sortField: "Id"

[erlingur]

@antsa Yes. Here is a jsfiddle demonstrating the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/8H62B/6/

When you first load the page with it works fine but when I attempt to update the select with new options it will auto sort them.

On that jsfiddle, if you begin by looking at the options, then click the button and look at the options again you will see what I mean.

[antsa]

@erlingur Apparently when adding options it does sorting and doesn't use the original order of the data—would it work for you to set the order with e.g. sortField: "text" in that case?

When calling selectize on a existing select with options leaving that option out will keep the original order of the option elements.

[erlingur]

@antsa sortField: 'text' will sort the options based on their text right? That wouldn't work for me since I have presorted options that are not really based on either the value or the name. I would ideally need addOptions() to respect the insert order. I'm looking at it now, trying to make it do that.

[erlingur]

So I created a pull request with a proposed fix. What do you think @antsa?

[ai]

I need it too

[erlingur]

Hey @ai, I created a pull request for this here: #295

You can use this branch if you want this functionality now: https://github.com/Reiknistofa/selectize.js/tree/respect_insert_order_in_addoption

[dbpolito]

👍

[ibtjw]

+1

[dhiemstra]

+1

[chriserik]

+1