Beginning jQuery: From the Basics of jQuery to Writing your Own Plug-ins

© Jack Franklin, Russ Ferguson 2017

Jack Franklin and Russ Ferguson, Beginning jQuery, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3027-5_10

10. More jQuery Plug-ins

Jack Franklin¹  and Russ Ferguson²

(1)Aviation House, GDS, 6th Floor Aviation House, London, UK

(2)Apt 129, Ocean, New Jersey, USA

You ended the last chapter with a pretty awesome accordion plug-in that you built based on the initial accordion code you wrote in Chapter 5. In this chapter, you will take your TVmaze API work from Chapter 8 and turn it into a plug-in. You’ll do this by making a slightly different type of plug-in, one that exists directly on the jQuery object. This means instead of calling it on a set, as you did previously:

$("div").somePlugin();

you call it directly:

$.somePlugin(); ...