Building Your Own JavaScript Plugin
How to Create a Basic Plugin Sometimes you want to make a piece of functionality available throughout your code. For example, perhaps you want a single method you can call on a jQuery selection that performs a series of operations on the selection. In this case, you may want to write a plugin. link How jQuery Works 101: jQuery Object Methods Before we write our own plugins, we must first understand a little about how jQuery works. Take a look at this code: $( "a" ).css( "color" , "red" ); This is some pretty basic jQuery code, but do you know what's happening behind the scenes? Whenever you use the $ function to select elements, it returns a jQuery object. This object contains all of the methods you've been using ( .css() , .click() , etc.) and all of the elements that fit your selector. The jQuery object gets these methods from the $.fn object. This object contains all of the jQuery object methods, and if we want to w...
