Using jQuery to avoid work

I've got an old ASP.NET 1.1 app that I've been meaning to rewrite for years but have never had the time. Well, that's not the entire story: it hasn't needed attention in about 3 years. It just does its thing with no intervention on my part.

Until now.

Some recent data changes have caused a critical DropDownList on the landing page to stop being sorted correctly. It's not a huge deal but annoying to the users. I could certainly dive into the underlying T-SQL or install Visual Studio 2003 to modify the code, but that would be a lot of fiddly work. Since the only problem is the sort order of the items, can't jQuery help me out?

Yup.

Using the Select box manipulation plugin from Texotela along with a few lines added to the Default.aspx page I was able to sort my Select.

Here's all it took:

<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery.selectboxes.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#MySelect').sortOptions();
});
</script>

This has saved me so much time that I think I'll take the rest of the day off.