I am trying to create a Jquery plugin that maintains chainability and has public methods as specified in Jquery Plugins/Authoring . The complexity is that it is trying to maintain certain vars that I want the public methods to use.
This is my jsfiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/badmash69/9cqcj/2/
javascript code :
(function($){
var methods = {
init : function( options ) {
this.options = options;
}
, add_that: function (elem) {
$(this).append(elem);
return (this);
}
, show_parent: function(){
// this is a simple test to see if the plugin vars are accessible
alert("parent id=" + $(this).parentId)
}
, add_this: function (elem) {
return methods.add_that.apply(this,elem);
}
};
$.fn.test = function (method) {
var args = method;
var argss = Array.prototype.slice.call(args, 1);
return this.each(function(){
var $this = $(this);
if ( methods[method] ) {
return methods[ method ].apply( this, Array.prototype.slice.call( arguments, 1 ));
} else if ( typeof method === 'object' || ! method ) {
return methods.init.apply( this, arguments );
} else {
$.error( 'Method ' + method + ' does not exist on jQuery.test' );
}
var element = $(this);
var parentId= element.parent().attr("id")
});
};
})(jQuery);
$('#test').test('add_this',$('<div>Hello World d</div>'));
$('#test').test('show_parent');
Html Code
<div id="holder">
<div id="test"></div>
</div>
I cant figure out what I am doping wrong here . How can I make it work ? I would deeply appreciate any help .