After having a list of buttons with event dates/names, with the date formatted as string, I decided to re-format the date (after fetching the elements via MySQL/PHP) like this: dd/mm/yyyy, and added each to the individual buttons as IDs. Then do the sorting straight from jQuery. (Querying the MySQL with PHP back-end was not an option because the…

sorting-elements.js

// Functionality to sort the event buttons by date using jQuery 

var $results = $('.mainDivClass'); //This could be an id as well
var $itemBtn = $results.children('.individualItemClass'); //This could be an id as well

	 $itemBtn.detach();

	 $itemBtn.sort(function(a,b){
	   return a.id > b.id;
	 });

	 $itemBtn.appendTo($results);
	
// -- End of Functionality to sort the event buttons by date --//