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Chaining Your JavaScript Methods
In a previous post on JavaScript Ant I reviewed some techniques from JavaScript libraries that could prove to be useful in your own scripts. A final technique that I gave a brief mention of, but did not cover in depth, was (object) method chaining. This technique was made popular in several libraries, but none more so than jQuery. In this straightforward tutorial, I will show you how to implement method chaining with little effort.
In case you were unaware, JavaScript, as well as ...
XHR responseXML to a String
- Topic: client/adv.
- Posted: 05/20/2008
- By: Cody Lindley
You'll likely never have to do this, but recently I did. I had to take the responseXML property of the XHR object and turn it into a string. Now, you'd think this would be easy, but in fact you'd be wrong. Before I show how this is done, let's not forget that if you want an XML document as a ...
Get With This
- Topic: client/interm.
- Posted: 05/20/2008
- Comments: 1
- By: Cody Lindley
When I first started programming, the use of the keyword this was somewhat befuddling. It was not until I truly grasped the concept of JavaScript objects that I fully understood the purpose of the keyword. If you still scratch your head when it comes time to use the keyword ...
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Recent Comments
- Posted To: Get With This
I like this article, and it is useful for me. Could you give me any insight how I can access the javascript variables/functions of a page from outside? Given, the page is currently open in the browser (thus window.content.document is its DOM).
- Posted To: Chaining Your JavaScript Methods
Excellent article – a nice alternative to the way I usually create chainable methods. Feed us more JavaScript goodness!
- Posted To: Chaining Your JavaScript Methods
Interesting… How can the model be extended to allow for jquery-style plugins?
- Posted To: JavaScript Library Techniques, Tips and Tricks
thanks for this valuable post…
- Posted To: JavaScript Libraries By Comparison
@Pragma: Great point on the lack of attention for accessibility. However, it’s up to the developer to implement progressive enhancement, and maintain accessible content and behavior, and it is possible with some of these JS libraries. For example, with jQuery, the AJAX behavior re-uses the “normal” server calls (such as …
Recent Javascript Elsewhere
- Functional JavaScript
- Posted: 07/01/2008 Topic: core
- Mascara: ECMAScript 4 → Classic Javascript translator
- Posted: 06/10/2008 Topic: tools
- Finally, the alternative fix for IE6's memory leak is available
- Posted: 06/10/2008 Topic: client
- String Performance: Getting Good Performance from Internet Explorer
- Posted: 06/10/2008 Topic: core
- Spyjax - Your browser history is not private!
- Posted: 06/03/2008 Topic: client
- The ultimate getElementsByClassName, anno 2008
- Posted: 05/27/2008 Topic: client
- Reserved Words in JavaScript
- Posted: 05/27/2008 Topic: core
- Scoping anonymous functions
- Posted: 05/09/2008 Topic: core
- Event delegation with JavaScript
- Posted: 05/09/2008 Topic: client
- Pragmatic progressive enhancement
- Posted: 05/08/2008 Topic: client