Last week a made a function for ellipsing the text inside some selector.
I was calling the function like this:
ellipsiText('.class',50) passing the selector and the max length of the text that i wanted to. This works fine, but im trying to make it a plugin, to call like this: $('.class').ellipsiText(50).
So, i was reading the tutorial in jquery website, and i understood how to do it. But i think i'm having an issue with the "this" seletor. Here is my original function:
function ellipsiText(selector,maxLength){
var array = $(selector).map(function(){
return $(this).text();
}).get();
var i;
var teste = [];
for (i=0;i<array.length;i++){
if (array[i].length > maxLength){
teste.push(array[i].substr(0,maxLength) + "...");
} else {
teste.push(array[i]);
}
}
for (var i=0;i<teste.length;i++){
$(selector).each(function(i){
$(this).text(teste[i]);
});
}
}
and here is my tentative of making a jquery plugin:
(function ($) {
$.fn.ellipsiText = function(length){
var array = $(this).map(function(){
return $(this).text();
}).get();
var i;
var teste = [];
for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
if (array[i] > length){
teste.push(array[i].substr(0,length) + "...");
} else {
teste.push(array[i]);
}
}
$(this).each(function(i){
$(this).text(teste[i]);
});
};
}(jQuery));
What am i doing wrong?
This is untested, but the basic structure is something like this. Also you have so much looping in your code when one loop is needed.
$.fn.ellipsiText= function(options) {
var settings = $.extend({ //nice way to give to give defaults
length : 50,
ellipsi : "..."
}, options );
return this.each(function() { //the return is needed for chaining
var elem = $(this);
var txt = elem.text();
if (txt.length>settings.length) {
elem.text(txt.substr(0,settings.length) + settings.ellipsi );
}
});
};
and call it
$( "div.defaults" ).ellipsiText();
$( "div.foo" ).ellipsiText({
length : 10
});
$( "div.more" ).ellipsiText({
length : 10,
ellipsi : "<more>"
});