Hi,

I'm trying to do something that is fairly simple, but my code looks terrible and I am certain there is a better way to do things in javascript. I am new to javascript, and am trying to improve my coding. This just feels very messy.

All I want to do is to randomly change the order some words on a web page. In python, the code would look something like this:

s = 'THis is a sentence'
shuffledSentence = random.shuffle(s.split(' ')).join(' ')

However, this is the monstrosity I've managed to produce in javascript

//need custom sorting function because javascript doesn't have shuffle?
function mySort(a,b) {    
    return a.sortValue - b.sortValue;
}

function scrambleWords() {

    var content = $.trim($(this).contents().text());

    splitContent = content.split(' ');

    //need to create a temporary array of objects to make sorting easier
    var tempArray = new Array(splitContent.length);

    for (var i = 0; i < splitContent.length; i++) {
        //create an object that can be assigned a random number for sorting
        var tmpObj = new Object();
        tmpObj.sortValue = Math.random();
        tmpObj.string = splitContent[i];
        tempArray[i] = tmpObj;       
    }

    tempArray.sort(mySort);

    //copy the strings back to the original array
    for (i = 0; i < splitContent.length; i++) {
        splitContent[i] = tempArray[i].string;
    }

    content = splitContent.join(' ');       
    //the result
    $(this).text(content);      

}

Can you help me to simplify things?