jquery.shuffle.js

/*
 * jQuery shuffle
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Ca-Phun Ung <caphun at yelotofu dot com>
 * Licensed under the MIT (MIT-LICENSE.txt) license.
 *
 * http://github.com/caphun/jquery.shuffle
 *
 * Shuffles an array or the children of a element container.
 * This uses the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm <http://jsfromhell.com/array/shuffle [v1.0]>
 */
 
(function($){

	$.fn.shuffle = function() {
		return this.each(function(){
			var items = $(this).children().clone(true);
			return (items.length) ? $(this).html($.shuffle(items)) : this;
		});
	}
	
	$.shuffle = function(arr) {
		for(var j, x, i = arr.length; i; j = parseInt(Math.random() * i), x = arr[--i], arr[i] = arr[j], arr[j] = x);
		return arr;
	}
	
})(jQuery);