George schrieb:
Hi Jörn, this technique seems like a good idea though I'm not sure I
follow what you did in the metadata plugin. Would you be able provide
an example here of how you would overload the trim function in the
same way as the earlier posting?
Sure thing.
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Hi Jörn, this technique seems like a good idea though I'm not sure I
follow what you did in the metadata plugin. Would you be able provide
an example here of how you would overload the trim function in the
same way as the earlier posting?
Many thanks,
George
On Apr 23, 7:14 pm, Jörn Zaefferer <
For example, if jQuery were to define their trim() method as a prototype to
the String object, then it would/could override a pre-defined version of the
function. If the two functions did not behave *exactly* a like, now you have
some issue that's very hard to debug and track down.
I agree. O
Matt,
>Is there any reason why it's not done this way? Perhaps there are
>things I'm not thinking of :)
You can access the functions using $.trim(), etc. While I had no part in
planning, I suspect the decision to place all this code w/in the jQuery
object was to avoid having the jQuery code inte
On Apr 23, 4:36 am, Remy Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Though if you're thinking of overloading functions like trim, wouldn't
> it be better to extend the String object?
Why doesn't jQuery extend existing objects (other than Object, of
course) and then reference those methods instead of defi
howard chen schrieb:
I want to overload some core jQuery method, e.g. trim() method
any codes sample or recommendation to do this?
Save a reference to the original method in a closure and call that when
appropiate. An example for this can be found here:
http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/pl
Example of (how I would) overload a function:
jQuery.extend({
_trim: jQuery.trim,
trim: function(s) {
// do something to s first, then you might want to call original
function
this._trim.call(this, s);
}
});
Though if you're thinking of overloading functions like trim, wouldn't
it
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