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jQuery.animate-sprite

Dave Smith — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:44:32 +0000

A bit of fun with a jQuery and background image sprite.

Current version 1.0.4 alpha.

jQuery.stacker-menu

Dave Smith — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:53:01 +0000

Out of interest in the varying menu systems at my disposal on the web, I have created some of my own. My lastest, the stacker menu, blends previous ideas with the inspirational jQuery API browser (jQuery) menu. The code is still pretty fragile but in development. Please try out the latest demo and let me know what you think.

Things I am trying to achieve with the menu:

A menu item can be a link, a link and menu or just a menu (alias)
Accessible, especially with a keyboard
Usable
Vertical space managed better than with a tree-like menu

jQuery plugin template

Dave Smith — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:45:38 +0000

Wanting a quick way to create a plugin in jQuery I found A Plugin Development Pattern (Learning jQuery), by Mike Alsup, via Improving upon the jQuery Plugin Template (Google Groups). Later, much later, I looked in the more obvious place; Plugins/Authoring (jQuery). I work best from hacking examples, so Mike Alsup’s pattern/template was the most useful to me.

The only difference between the following template and Mike Alsup’s is that I’ve stripped it down to just the essentials.

The template

(function($)
{
	$.fn.plugin = function(options)
	{
		// Set the options.
		options = $.extend({}, $.fn.plugin.defaults, options);

		// Go through the matched elements and return the jQuery object.
		return this.each(function()
		{
		});
	};
	// Public defaults.
	$.fn.plugin.defaults = {
		property: 'value'
	};
	// Private functions.
	function func()
	{
		return;
	};
	// Public functions.
	$.fn.plugin.func = function()
	{
		return;
	};
})(jQuery);

Updates

Removed “var” where not required, many thanks to Jim (Jim’s comment)

jQuery.linkify

Dave Smith — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:40:19 +0000

A plugin for jQuery turning sections into links. Read the jQuery.linkify page for a demo and more info.