Sort tag separations alphabetically

When I want to separate tags from a tag that has approximately 10,000 tags combined with it (see: http://www.librarything.com/tag/historical+fiction) it would be great to have the list that comes up be alphabetical. As it is, it constantly changes order so I have no idea if I've proposed all the separations or not. It's a really terrible system.

I agree. This bothers me to no end, even when there are only 10 or so tags combined together.

Until such a time as this happens, I've whipped up a little something to help out. Create a bookmark and paste the following as the URL:

javascript:(function(){var p=document.evaluate('//p[@class="alsoknownas"]',document.body,null,XPathResult.ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE,null).singleNodeValue;var e=document.evaluate('.//a[starts-with(@href,"/tag")]',p,null,XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null);var a=[];var i;for(i=0;i<e.snapshotLength;i++)a.push(e.snapshotItem(i).textContent);a.sort();var html='';for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)html+='<a class="alwaysgrey" href="/tag/'+encodeURIComponent(a[i]).replace(/%20/g,'+')+'">'+a[i]+'</a><br>';p.innerHTML=html;f=document.evaluate('//select[@id="totag"]',document.body,null,XPathResult.ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE,null).singleNodeValue.innerHTML='<option>'+a.join('</option><option>')+'</option>'}())

Then when you are on the tag page, click the bookmark. This should sort the tags and put them each on one line for easier reading. Hopefully that's actually a helpful improvement for what you're using them for. If not, I can provide a version without that. All the links should remain intact. If not, let me know.

ETA: It also changes the dropdown box for separations so that all the items are sorted.

ETA: Updated to fix bugs.

3> Cool... except that I'm not sure how to bookmark something that's Javascript in Firefox. I can't see where to start a bookmark from scratch where I can define the URL. Any ideas?

Make a bookmark of a random page and then change the url of that bookmark?

Ah, ok, well I got it to work. It lists all of the tags at the top of the page alphabetically but not in the drop down list of separations.

Also... it lists a lot of tags that are not actually combined. For example if you do that JavaScript thing on the historical fiction tag, you see a lot of tags like:

Afghanistan
American
American literature
Aubrey/Maturin
Britain, historical fiction, romance
British
China
Civil War
England
England, historical fiction, romance

Which are not combined with historical fiction.

I updated the code in the post above, so just paste that one back in. It was snagging data from "Related Tags" (among others). It was as simple as a missing "." in the code. I didn't even think about the dropdown, but it was fairly easy to add as well. Enjoy!

Sorry, forgot to do the whole escaping for < and []. Fixed now.

That is a beautiful thing! Thanks!!! :-D