如果你在努力理解以下内容，这可能会有所帮助:

var array = ["sort", "Me", "alphabetically", "But", "Ignore", "case"];
console.log('Unordered array ---', array, '------------');

array.sort(function(a,b) {
    a = a.toLowerCase();
    b = b.toLowerCase();
    console.log("Compare '" + a + "' and '" + b + "'");

    if( a == b) {
        console.log('Comparison result, 0 --- leave as is ');
        return 0;
    }
    if( a > b) {
        console.log('Comparison result, 1 --- move '+b+' to before '+a+' ');
        return 1;
    }
    console.log('Comparison result, -1 --- move '+a+' to before '+b+' ');
    return -1;


});

console.log('Ordered array ---', array, '------------');


// return logic

/***
If compareFunction(a, b) is less than 0, sort a to a lower index than b, i.e. a comes first.
If compareFunction(a, b) returns 0, leave a and b unchanged with respect to each other, but sorted with respect to all different elements. Note: the ECMAscript standard does not guarantee this behaviour, and thus not all browsers (e.g. Mozilla versions dating back to at least 2003) respect this.
If compareFunction(a, b) is greater than 0, sort b to a lower index than a.
***/

http://jsfiddle.net/ianjamieson/wmxn2ram/1/

你也可以使用新的Intl.Collator().compare，每个MDN在排序数组时更有效。缺点是旧的浏览器不支持它。MDN声明Safari根本不支持它。需要验证它，因为它声明Intl。支持Collator。

当比较大量字符串时，例如对大型数组排序时，最好创建Intl。对象，并使用其compare属性提供的函数

["Foo", "bar"].sort(Intl.Collator().compare); //["bar", "Foo"]

如果你在努力理解以下内容，这可能会有所帮助:

var array = ["sort", "Me", "alphabetically", "But", "Ignore", "case"];
console.log('Unordered array ---', array, '------------');

array.sort(function(a,b) {
    a = a.toLowerCase();
    b = b.toLowerCase();
    console.log("Compare '" + a + "' and '" + b + "'");

    if( a == b) {
        console.log('Comparison result, 0 --- leave as is ');
        return 0;
    }
    if( a > b) {
        console.log('Comparison result, 1 --- move '+b+' to before '+a+' ');
        return 1;
    }
    console.log('Comparison result, -1 --- move '+a+' to before '+b+' ');
    return -1;


});

console.log('Ordered array ---', array, '------------');


// return logic

/***
If compareFunction(a, b) is less than 0, sort a to a lower index than b, i.e. a comes first.
If compareFunction(a, b) returns 0, leave a and b unchanged with respect to each other, but sorted with respect to all different elements. Note: the ECMAscript standard does not guarantee this behaviour, and thus not all browsers (e.g. Mozilla versions dating back to at least 2003) respect this.
If compareFunction(a, b) is greater than 0, sort b to a lower index than a.
***/

http://jsfiddle.net/ianjamieson/wmxn2ram/1/

其他答案假设数组包含字符串。我的方法更好，因为即使数组包含null、undefined或其他非字符串，它也能工作。

var notdefined;
var myarray = ['a', 'c', null, notdefined, 'nulk', 'BYE', 'nulm'];

myarray.sort(ignoreCase);

alert(JSON.stringify(myarray));    // show the result

function ignoreCase(a,b) {
    return (''+a).toUpperCase() < (''+b).toUpperCase() ? -1 : 1;
}

null将在'nulk'和'nulm'之间排序。但未定义的总是排在最后。

如果不管输入数组中元素的顺序如何，你都想保证相同的顺序，这里是一个稳定排序:

myArray.sort(function(a, b) {
    /* Storing case insensitive comparison */
    var comparison = a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase());
    /* If strings are equal in case insensitive comparison */
    if (comparison === 0) {
        /* Return case sensitive comparison instead */
        return a.localeCompare(b);
    }
    /* Otherwise return result */
    return comparison;
});

在(几乎:)一行代码中

["Foo", "bar"].sort(function (a, b) {
    return a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase());
});

结果是

[ 'bar', 'Foo' ]

而

["Foo", "bar"].sort();

结果

[ 'Foo', 'bar' ]