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Prepend / prefix text to list items without class or id tags

I'm working with the Docsify.js markdown parser framework and it automatically creates a sidebar from the headings in a document (unless you manually create a sidebar).
I have some CSS that numbers list elements, but want to convert it to JS as there are rendering issues when classes are added as the page scrolls (ie. adding .active).
Originally, I was trialling using this snippet but it doesn't output it as an auto incrementing hierarchical number system:
The sidebar that is generated is in the following format:
var li = document.getElementsByTagName( 'li' );
for( var i = 0; i < li.length; i++ ) {
var prefix = '1.';
li[i].innerHTML = prefix + ' Title ' + i;
prefix++;
}
<aside class="sidebar">
<div class="sidebar-nav">
<ul>
<li>Title 1</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 2</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 3</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 4</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 5</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 6</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>Title 1</li>
<li>Title 1</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 2</li>
<li>Title 2</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 3</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 4</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 5</li>
<ul>
<li>Title 6</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
</aside>
I understand the HTML structure isn't valid with <ul> being a descendant of an <ul> but this is the code that is outputted and I have no control over it.
However, I want to be able to number the headings with sections and sub-sections:
1. Title 1
1.1. Title 2
1.1.1. Title 3
1.1.1.1. Title 4
1.1.1.1.1. Title 5
1.1.1.1.1.1. Title 6
2. Title 1
3. Title 1
3.1. Title 2
3.2. Title 2
3.2.1. Title 3
3.2.1.1. Title 4
3.2.1.1.1. Title 5
3.2.1.1.1.1. Title 6
I am struggling to find a way to be able to target the first <li> (or the H1), and then being able to access the next <ul> via .nextElementSibling to continue the loop and prepend the numbering.
As far as I have gotten to at the moment is: document.querySelectorAll( 'div.sidebar-nav > ul' ) and it's not much to go on!
I think I'm really out of my depth for javascript here, and was hoping that I'd be able to get some help on being able to loop through the <li> and <ul> elements to prepend the numbers.

Following is JavaScript to apply nested index numbers. At max there are only 6 header tags, 6 levels, so we can use recursive solution:
let startLevel = 1;
let endLevel = 5;
function indexsify() {
let children = document.querySelectorAll('#sidebar > ul');
let numbers = new Array(7).fill(0);
let depth = 0;
children.forEach((element, index) => {
recurse(element, ++depth, numbers);
});
}
function recurse(element, depth, numbers) { //ul
let children = Array.from(element.children);
children.forEach((element, index) => {
if (element.localName.toUpperCase() === 'LI') {
numbers[depth]++;
addNumberString(element, depth, numbers);
} else if (element.localName.toUpperCase() === 'UL') {
if (depth < endLevel) {
recurse(element, depth + 1, numbers, startLevel);
numbers.fill(0, depth + 1); //reset all next numbers
}
}
});
}
function addNumberString(element, depth, numbers) {
let strNumber = "";
numbers.forEach((num, index) => {
if (index > depth || index <= startLevel) return;
strNumber += `${num}.`;
});
element.firstElementChild.innerText = strNumber +
element.firstElementChild.innerText;
}
indexsify();
ul,
li {
list-style-type: none;
}
<div id="sidebar">
<ul>
<li><a>Home</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a>Chapter a</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a> Section a</a></li>
<li><a>Section b</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a>Chapter b</a></li>
<li><a>Chapter c</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a>Section a</a></li>
<li><a>Section b</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a>Sub-section a</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><a>Chapter D</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
Modify markdown itself: As per the Docsify plugin documentation there is no direct provision to influence the sidebar content. Your plugin uses hook.afterEach(function(html, next) and the sidebar is generated separately. So you are trying to manipulate generated sidebar also. You are trying to do similar operation two times.
Why not use hook.beforeEach(function(content) and manipulate markdown itself. That way you'll have to do the numbering operations only once.
Here is a demo site and the code sandbox link for following sample plugin that manipulates markdown content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify#4/themes/vue.css"
/>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify/themes/dark.css"
/>
<div id="app">Please wait...</div>
<script>
window.$docsify = {
el: "#app",
loadSidebar: true,
maxLevel: 4,
subMaxLevel: 5,
homepage: "readme.md"
};
</script>
<script>
//plugin
let myPlugin = function (hook, vm) {
hook.init(function () {
//remove '-' before Table of content entries
let customStyles = document.createElement("style");
customStyles.type = "text/css";
customStyles.textContent = `.app-sub-sidebar li::before {
content: '' !important;
padding-right: 4px;
float: left;
}`;
document.body.appendChild(customStyles);
});
//update markdown content before docsify parsing
hook.beforeEach(function (content) {
let lines = content.split("\n");
let numbers = new Array(6).fill(0);
let depth = 0;
lines.forEach((line, index) => {
let level = getLevel(line);
//if not a header continue to next line
if (level === -1) return;
if (level > depth) {
depth++; //increase depth
} else {
depth = level; //decrease depth
numbers.fill(0, depth + 1); //set all next depth to 0
}
numbers[depth]++;
let strNumber = "";
numbers.forEach((num, index) => {
if (index > depth || index < startLevel) return;
strNumber += `${num}.`;
});
if (depth < endLevel) {
lines[index] =
levels[level] + strNumber + line.substr(depth + 1, line.length);
}
});
//update original content
content = lines.join("\n");
return content;
});
let levels = ["# ", "## ", "### ", "#### ", "##### ", "###### "];
let startLevel = 1;
let endLevel = 4;
let regEx = new RegExp(`^#{1,${endLevel}}\\s+.*`);
function getLevel(line) {
if (!regEx.test(line)) return -1; //not a header line
if (line.startsWith(levels[0])) return 0; //h1
if (line.startsWith(levels[1])) return 1;
if (line.startsWith(levels[2])) return 2;
if (line.startsWith(levels[3])) return 3;
if (line.startsWith(levels[4])) return 4;
if (line.startsWith(levels[5])) return 5; //h6
}
};
window.$docsify.plugins = [myPlugin];
</script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify#4"></script>
</body>
</html>
We need to override default CSS in hook.init(function ()) to remove leading - in table of contents.
Old answer: You can have numbers directly on anchors<a> tags :
.sidebar ul>li {
counter-increment: item;
}
.sidebar ul>li:first-child {
counter-reset: item;
}
.sidebar ul>li a::before {
content: counters(item, ".") " ";
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify#4/themes/vue.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify/themes/dark.css" />
<div id="app">Please wait...</div>
<script>
window.$docsify = {
el: "#app",
loadSidebar: false,
homepage: 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/OnkarRuikar/bb1d986f279dddceea9004a4bde3844b/raw/80fe153d6b8c1bb2b8e7035be7df1bb908779061/readme.md'
}
</script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docsify#4"></script>
If you generate numbers for titles in main section then they may get populated automatically in the sidebar. You can use markdown setting to write the script. Or you can try something like: https://github.com/markbattistella/docsify-autoHeaders

You want to "do something" to every child of the outer UL, depending on its type - either increment the index at the current level and then prepend a label, if it's an LI; or else recurse to the next level, if it's a UL. Given the HTML provided by the OP, this bit of code produces exactly the desired result:
function addLabels(element, prefix) {
var index = 0;
Array.from(element.children).forEach(element => {
if (element.localName.toUpperCase() === 'LI') {
index += 1;
element.innerText = prefix + index + '. ' + element.innerText;
} else if (element.localName.toUpperCase() === 'UL') {
addLabels(element, prefix + index + '.');
}
});
}
document.querySelectorAll('div.sidebar-nav > ul').forEach(
element => addLabels(element, '')
);
Also, you mentioned the idea of using nextElementSibling to get the UL's from the LI's. That would work, but I think you'd end up with code that is less robust, less performant, and not particularly clearer. But for the record, that could look something like this:
function addLabels2(element, prefix) {
Array.from(element.querySelectorAll(':scope > li')).forEach((element, index) => {
var label = prefix + (index+1) + '.';
var sibling = element.nextElementSibling;
element.innerText = label + ' ' + element.innerText;
if (sibling && sibling.localName.toUpperCase() === 'UL') {
addLabels2(sibling, label);
}
});
}
document.querySelectorAll('div.sidebar-nav > ul').forEach(
element => addLabels2(element, '')
);

Continuously change text in an element

Hi all I have the following code :
var names = Array('John', 'Craig', 'Jim', 'Nick', 'Stuart');
$("#pickName").on('click', function () {
//pickName();
var name = names[Math.floor(Math.random() * names.length)];
alert(name);
names.splice($.inArray(name, names), 1);
$('#' + name).remove();
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
<li id="John">John</li>
<li id="Craig">Craig</li>
<li id="Stuart">Stuart</li>
<li id="Nick">Nick</li>
<li id="Jim">Jim</li>
</ul>
<a id="pickName">Click Me</a>
<h1 id="randomName"></h1>
Which when I click on the #pickName selects a name from the array and displays it in a alert box then removes it from the array and from the <ul> list. Which is all fine but what I'd like to do is have the H1 tag (#randomName) looping through and 'flashing' all of the remaining names (constantly until I click #pickName).
I've tried doing an internet search for this but I can't think of how to word what it is that I'm trying to do!
Could anyone help?

You can do it using setInterval and by keeping a global counter, also take care to take the modulo of this counter with your array length to avoid out-of-bounds indexing.
Here is the doc for setInterval. You should also assign the return value so you can later clear your interval timer.
const names = Array('John', 'Craig', 'Jim', 'Nick', 'Stuart');
const h1$ = $('#randomName');
let idx = 0;
setInterval(() => {
h1$.text(names[idx++ % names.length]);
}, 200);
$("#pickName").on('click', function () {
const name = names[Math.floor(Math.random() * names.length)];
names.splice($.inArray(name, names), 1);
$('#' + name).remove();
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
<li id="John">John</li>
<li id="Craig">Craig</li>
<li id="Stuart">Stuart</li>
<li id="Nick">Nick</li>
<li id="Jim">Jim</li>
</ul>
<a id="pickName">Click Me</a>
<h1 id="randomName"></h1>

Just like jo_va but having names going through randomly:
var names = Array('John', 'Craig', 'Jim', 'Nick', 'Stuart');
function pickName()
{
return names[Math.floor(Math.random() * names.length)]
}
$("#pickName").on('click', function () {
//pickName();
var name = pickName();
alert(name);
names.splice($.inArray(name, names), 1);
$('#' + name).remove();
});
setInterval(function(){
$("#randomName").text(pickName());
}, 200);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
<li id="John">John</li>
<li id="Craig">Craig</li>
<li id="Stuart">Stuart</li>
<li id="Nick">Nick</li>
<li id="Jim">Jim</li>
</ul>
<a id="pickName">Click Me</a>
<h1 id="randomName"></h1>
Though, I recommend you find a more sustainable way to manage your elements rather than giving the <li> ids that match their content. Unless it's really meant for static use :)

If submenu li has more than 5 li's create a new ul and place remaining list items?

I am basically trying to check if my submenu has more than five list items, and if it does grab the remaining list item's and place them inside a new ul that is outside of the current parent ul using jquery. it gets complicated because of the structure of the list.
Here is the DOM structure:
<ul id="nav" class="se test">
<li id="menu1" class="page-1307 parent-menu parent">
<div class="nav-inner">
<a class="menulink" id="menuitem1" onclick="return false" href="#">test<span class="toggle"></span></a>
<ul id="ie1" class="plain">
<li class="parent-menu parent">test<span class="toggle"></span>
<div class="submenu-wrapper">
<ul class="plain">
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li class="parent-menu parent">test<span class="toggle"></span>
<div class="submenu-wrapper">
<ul class="plain">
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li id="menu2" class="menulink page-7">
<div class="nav-inner">
test
</div>
</li>
</ul>
Basically i need to grab those remaining list items and place them in a new li.parent-menu.parent that includes the children div.sub-menu-wrapper and the ul.plain. the actual remaining list items would go inside the ul.plain of the new li.parent-menu. i hope thi makes since. i have been stuck on this for a day or two and unble to figure it out. any help would be greatly apprecitated, thank you.
This is what i am striving for, keep in mind it is dynamic.

you can:
Loop all ul in your document
foreach element count children
if found li number under an ul element is > 5
create a new list with the html of the required list
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.submenu-wrapper').each(function(){
var count_li=0;
var i=1;
$(this).children('ul').children('li').each(function(){
count_li++;
if(count_li>5 && i==1){
$(document.body).append('<ul id="newlist"></ul>');
$('#newlist').append($(this).nextUntil($(this).last()).andSelf());
i++;
}
});
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="nav" class="se test">
<li id="menu1" class="page-1307 parent-menu parent">
<div class="nav-inner">
<a class="menulink" id="menuitem1" onclick="return false" href="#">test<span class="toggle"></span></a>
<ul id="ie1" class="plain">
<li class="parent-menu parent">test<span class="toggle"></span>
<div class="submenu-wrapper">
<ul class="plain">
<li>test11</li>
<li>test12</li>
<li>test13</li>
<li>test14</li>
<li>test15</li>
<li>test16</li>
<li>test17</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li class="parent-menu parent">test<span class="toggle"></span>
<div class="submenu-wrapper">
<ul class="plain">
<li>test21</li>
<li>test22</li>
<li>test23</li>
<li>test24</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li id="menu2" class="menulink page-7">
<div class="nav-inner">
test
</div>
</li>
</ul>

Here is the final answer I was looking for:
megaMenu: function(){
function addNewList(current, newItems) {
var newList = $('<li class="parent-menu parent newLi">');
var div = $('<div class="submenu-wrapper">');
newList.append(div);
var ul = $('<ul class="plain">');
div.append(ul);
for (var i = 0; i < newItems.length; i++) {
ul.append(newItems[i]);
}
current.after(newList);
return newList;
}
function splitLists() {
var allLists = $(".plain > li.parent-menu");
for (var i = 0; i < allLists.length; i++) {
var currentList = $(allLists[i]);
var items = currentList.find("li");
if (items.length > 5) {
var temp = [];
for (var j = 5; j < items.length; j++) {
temp.push($(items[j]));
if (temp.length == 5) {
currentList = addNewList(currentList, temp);
temp = [];
}
}
if (temp.length > 0) {
currentList = addNewList(currentList, temp);
}
}
}
}
splitLists();
}

After some clarification via comments it seems you are looking for something like this. I have commented the code to explain the logic behind the process:
// function for adding a new LI item.
function addNewList(current, newItems) {
// Create the new li node.
var newList = $('<li class="parent-menu parent">');
// Add the initial a link.
newList.append('test<span class="toggle"></span>');
// Create and append the submenu-wrapper div to our new list item.
var div = $('<div class="submenu-wrapper">');
newList.append(div);
// Create and append the new ul node to our submenu-wrapper div.
var ul = $('<ul class="plain">');
div.append(ul);
// Loop the 5 (or less) items that have been specified and add them to our new list.
for (var i = 0; i < newItems.length; i++) {
// Using append will move the elements that already exist in the original place.
ul.append(newItems[i]);
}
// Add our new list item to the DOM.
current.after(newList);
return newList;
}
// Base function to split the lists as required.
function splitLists() {
// Get all the lists that we want to process.
var allLists = $(".plain > li.parent-menu");
// Loop each list and process.
for (var i = 0; i < allLists.length; i++) {
var currentList = $(allLists[i]);
// Get the sub-items that we need to split.
var items = currentList.find("li");
// We only care about lists that are more than 5 items.
if (items.length > 5) {
// Create array to store the items that we want to move (any after first 5)
var temp = [];
// Start at the 6th item an start moving them in blocks of 5.
for (var j = 5; j < items.length; j++) {
// Add the item to move to our temp array.
temp.push($(items[j]));
// If we have 5 in our temp array then move them to new list.
if (temp.length == 5) {
// Move items with helper function.
currentList = addNewList(currentList, temp);
// Clear the temp array ready for the next set of items.
temp = [];
}
}
// If we have any spare ones that didn't get handle in the length == 5 check, then process them now.
if (temp.length > 0) {
currentList = addNewList(currentList, temp);
}
}
}
}
// Run the process.
splitLists();
Here is a working example

Group list-items into sub-lists based on a data attribute

I want to append the <li> from one <ul> to another <ul> that's created on the fly. I want to group the list-items into new sub-lists based on their data-group attribute.
<ul id="sortable1">
<li data-group="A">test</li>
<li data-group="A">test1</li>
<li data-group="B">test2</li>
<li data-group="B">test3</li>
<li data-group="C">test4</li>
</ul>
Basically I'm trying to loop through this list and grap all <li> from each group, and then move it to another <ul>.
This is what I have so far, but I'm not getting the expected results. I have done this in Excel in the past but can't get it to work with jQuery.
var listItems = $("#sortable1").children("li");
listItems.each(function (idx, li) {
var product = $(li);
//grab current li
var str = $(this).text();
if (idx > 0) {
//append li
str += str;
if ($(this).data("group") != $(this).prev().data("group")) {
//I should be getting test and test1.
//but alert is only giving test1 test1.
alert(str);
//need to break into groups
//do something with groups
}
}
});

How about something like this:
$(function() {
var sortable = $("#sortable1"),
content = $("#content");
var groups = [];
sortable.find("li").each(function() {
var group = $(this).data("group");
if($.inArray(group, groups) === -1) {
groups.push(group);
}
});
groups.forEach(function(group) {
var liElements = sortable.find("li[data-group='" + group + "']"),
groupUl = $("<ul>").append(liElements);
content.append(groupUl);
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="sortable1">
<li data-group="A">test</li>
<li data-group="A">test1</li>
<li data-group="B">test2</li>
<li data-group="B">test3</li>
<li data-group="C">test4</li>
</ul>
<div id="content">
</div>
I hope I didn't misunderstand you.

jQuery: How to specify element in this case?

I have a function that adds game results to a schedule.
I want to have the score of a winning team in yellow - add ".winner" class to (<%=score1%> or <%=score2%>).
I wonder what is the correct way to specify needed element, using jQuery.
My current code isn't working. All elements get ".winner" class, regardless of whether a team won or not.
addGame: function(gameInfo) {
var sHtml = window.JST["schedule/gamelist/inner_row"](gameInfo);
var tableRow = $("<tr>").append(sHtml);
tableRow.data("id", gameInfo.id);
return tableRow;
}
addNewTable: function(date, gameInfos, number) {
...
...
for (var ind = 0; ind < gameInfos.length; ++ind) {
gameInfo = gameInfos[ind].attributes;
var element = this.addGame(gameInfo);
$("#schedule_mytable_tbody" + number).append(element);
if (gameInfo.score1 > gameInfo.score2)
$("li:nth-child(5)").find("p:first-child").addClass("winner");
else
$("li:nth-child(5)").find("p:last-child").addClass("winner");
}
My template looks like this.
window.JST["schedule/gamelist/inner_row"] = _.template(
'<td width="668px">\
<ul>\
<li class="schedule_..."></li>\
<li class="schedule_..."></li>\
<li class="schedule_...."></li>\
<li class="schedule_..."></li>\
<li class="schedule_boxscore">\
<p><%=score1%></p>\
<p><%=score2%></p>\
</li>\
...
Rendered HTML part:
<li style="font-size:16px" class="schedule_boxscore">
<p class="winner">2</p>
<p class="winner">10</p>
</li>
So, because of the "for" loop, all paragraphs get the ".winner" class, not just <p class="winner">10</p>...