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HTML

<ul id="cars">
    <li data-val="2">Ford</li>
    <li data-val="1">Volvo</li>
    <li data-val="3">Fiat</li>
</ul>

JavaScript

$('#cars').children('li').sort(function(a, b) {
    return $(a).data('val')-$(b).data('val');
}).appendTo('#cars');