How To Sort The Labels Widget Reverse Alphabetically

Someone on the Blogger Help Group asked if it was possible to sort the Labels widget z to a rather than a to z, someone replied, "no". Of course, with JavaScript the answer is actually "yes".

You can see an example of this widget in the Compender Sandbox. Here's the code:

<b:widget id='ReverseLabels' locked='false' title='Reverse Alphabetical Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
  <b:if cond='data:title'>
    <h2><data:title/></h2>
  </b:if>
  <div class='widget-content'>
    <ul>
 <script type="text/javascript">
 /*
 Reverse Alphabetical Tag Sort
 by Raymond May Jr.
 http://www.compender.com
 Released to the Public Domain
 */
 var root = "<data:blog.homepageUrl/>";
 var tagUrl = "search/label/";
 var labels = new Array();
 
 <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
  labels.push("<data:label.name/>");
 </b:loop>
 
 i=labels.length;
 while(i > 0)
 {
  i=i-1;
  document.write("<li><a href='"+root+tagUrl+labels[i]+"'>"+labels[i]+"</a></li>");
 }
 </script>
    </ul>
    <b:include name='quickedit'/>
  </div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>