[jQuery] Re: is this a good way to test for the presence of a jquery plugin?

[Karl Swedberg]

This should work:

if ($.fn.jScrollPane) {
  $('.scroll-pane').jScrollPane();
}

--Karl
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On Apr 23, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Sam Sherlock wrote:

I am using this to test for the presence of blockUI

        if((typeof $.blockUI) === 'object')    {
                  // set up blockUI
        }

also seems to work

        if((typeof $.fn.idTabs) === 'object')    {
            $('.idTabs').idTabs();
        }


does'nt work
        if((typeof $.fn.jScrollPane) === 'object')    {
            $('.scroll-pane').jScrollPane();
        }

it seems to not work with JSScrollBar though - so I thought perhaps there is a better way

or should I go through the converluted apprpach of setting flags??

var isBlockUI = 1; // added to the plugin file to check elsewhere in other scripts