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
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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 wrote:
> Great solution to managing large lists... 3 thumbs up! =)
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