On: How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

[XCSme]

That's true, but the default string comparison sometimes isn't that useful, right? I somehow assumed the data is numbers only, rookie mistake :)

    'ana' > 'Bob'
    '2' > '123'

You usually want to clearly define the order or pre-process the strings in some way (trim them, same casing, etc).

[amelius → XCSme]

Well, you can pass the strings through .toUpperCase() before comparing them.

Or indeed drop the <, > based approach and use: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Or: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...