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With the support for HTML5 data- attributes in jQuery 1.4.3 this plugin is largely obsolete. Metadata I put the idea that the metadata plugin should be extensible out on the jquery discussion group, but it got no attention, so I'm documenting it here.

This post is obsolete. Please see the updated post. The phone pad below is messed up in Internet Explorer. I know. I don't care anymore. The plugin, however, works. $('div.test input:button').click(function(){ $('.output').sendkeys($('div.test input:text').val()); }); $('.phonepad input').click(function(){ $('.output').sendkeys(this.name || this.value); }); $('.output:first').bind('keypress', function(evt){ $('#keypress').text($('#keypress').text()+' '+evt.which); }).bind('sendkeys', function(evt){ $('#sendkeys').text($('#sendkeys').text()+' '+evt.which); }); <div> <textarea class="output"></textarea> <br/> <input type="text" [...]

This page is obsolete (it uses jQuery UI 1.5). Please see the updated page. This is an updated version of a tutorial I wrote a bit back, improved thanks to conversations with Scott Gonzalez of the jQuery UI team. Thanks! Avoiding Bloat in Widgets A while back, Justin Palmer wrote an excellent article on "Avoiding [...]

jQuery encourages using namespaces for methods in the $ namespace, like $.foo.bar() rather than $.bar(). This works for $ because methods don't expect this to refer to anything specific, and the way javascript works is to assign this to the last-named object, so in $.foo.bar(), this refers to $.foo. This idea fails for plugins, however, [...]

This page is obsolete (it uses jQuery UI 1.5). Please see the updated page. This was written largely to help me make sense of using UI to create my own widgets, but I hope it may help others. "Widget" to me means a user-interface element, like a button or something more complicated like a popup [...]