Hi Keith,
Glad you like the plugin. I missed your original post, but just spotted this one. Your change looks good, that's where I would have done it, too. I'm having a little trouble picturing your use case, though. Do you have an example anywhere or could you explain it a little bit more? I might considering adding an option for this kind of thing to the plugin.
Thanks, Jack keith.westb...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok... I think I got it. I tweaked the addClasses function to eval a list items attribute instead of the text value. I'm using the attrib LANG for now. I populate this server side with either the first character of the persons firstname or lastname depending on what order was selected on the page. So now I can generate a dynamic list of anything I like without needing to ensure the first char matches the navigation line selected character. I'm sure there is allot wrong with this approach, and I apologize in advance. My enviornment is strictly Intranet with mandated browser and version, so I can normally get away with much less test overhead than the will wild west... =)Cheers, Keith /////////////////////////////////////////////////// function addClasses() { var str, firstChar; var temp; $($list).children().each(function() { // ORIGINAL // $(this).text().replace(/\s+/g, ''); //.toLowerCase();// strip all white space (including tabs and linebreaks that might have been in the HTML)// thanks to Liam Byrne, l...@onsight.ie // NEW str = $(this).attr("lang"); if (str != '') { // ORIGINAL // firstChar = str.slice(0, 1).toLowerCase(); // NEW firstChar = str.toLowerCase();if (!isNaN(firstChar)) firstChar = '_'; // use '_' if the first char is a number$(this).addClass('ln-' + firstChar); if (counts[firstChar] == undefined) counts[firstChar] = 0; counts[firstChar]++; allCount++; } }); } //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// On Jul 20, 2009 11:33pm, keith <keith.westb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great solution to managing large lists... 3 thumbs up! =) > > > > > > After playing with it this evening, I found myself wondering what it > > > would take to possibly target another attribute to determine its > > > placement? For instance if I were to use an image instead of a link > > > or some other type of content without any text, how would I tweak the > > > plugin to eval this area instead of its text. Do you believe this > > > would be a simple endeavor? > > > > > > Before I really dig in, I thought I would first ask yourselves and see > > > if this was even possible without a huge rewrite. > > > > > > Thank you again for a really great tool... I look forward to using it > > > in future projects. > > > > > > Respectfully, > > > Keith > >>
