Hi, I've just developed a plugin that mimics the combo box control, albeit it's a special one. That's being defined as follows:
(function($) { $.fn.extend({ smartList: function(settings) { //prepare settings, blah blah blah... return this.each(function() { //whatever code goes here... }); } }); })(jQuery); You know, to use this plugin, I could easily write the following JavaScript code: var $myList = $('myElement').smartList(); No problem so far. Now, I need to define and access some functions that's specific to the smartList. say, e.g., getSelectedValue, insertItem, and the like. The problem is that I've got no idea how to address such a thing in JavaScript. i.e., I need to write things like: $myList.getSelectedValue(); $myList.insetItem('foo', 'bar'); But this isn't possible, since the $myList variable is a jQuery object. So I just defined some functions, say, $.smartList.getSelectedValue and the like... but in this approach, I've to pass the jQuery object to this functions as a mandatory parameter and this really sucks. i.e., I need to get the selected value of $myList this way: var value = $.smartList.getSelectedValue($myList); Is there any better approach to address such a thing? Any help would be highly appreciated, TIA, Mehdi