Relocating html elements with jquery

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Published on 2013-11-13T14:40:48Z Indexed on 2013/11/13 15:54 UTC
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Could someone help me with this code? I'm trying to rearrange figures in a certain div into two columns (a and b) in such a way the two columns are about the same height. I've got insane trying to find the problem in my code and not finding it. It doesn't work for a reason...

<body onload="rearrangeImages();">
   <div class="images">
      <figure>
         <figcaption>This is the figcaption of this figure. An image is missing for this test.</figcaption>
      </figure>
      <figure>
         <figcaption>This is the figcaption of this figure.</figcaption>
      </figure>
      <figure>
         <figcaption>Another one.</figcaption>
      </figure>
   </div>
   <script>
      function rearrangeImages() {
         $('.images').each(function() {
            $(this).prepend('<div class="column_b"></div>');
            $(this).prepend('<div class="column_a"></div>');
            $(this).append('<div class="test_div"></div>');
            $('figure', this).each(function() {
               var height_a = $(this).parent().$(".column_a").height();
               var height_b = $(this).parent().$(".column_b").height();
               if (height_a > height_b) {
                  $(this).parent().$(".column_b").append(this);
               } else {                        
                  $(this).parent().$(".column_a").append(this);
               }
               $(this).remove();
            });
         });
      }
   </script>
</body>

Next I would like to be able to make the last figure not going in any of the columns in case it would make column_b higher than column_a. (pseudocode)

if (this is last figure) {
   //place last figure in test_div to measure its height;
   if (height_a > height_b + height_of_last_image) {
      $(this).parent().$(".column_b").append(this);
   } else {
      $(this).parent().append(this);
   }
} else {
   //do the normal stuff see higher
}

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