Question

I am developing a plugin for jquery and am having a problem to execute methods on it:

$(".data").bindFlexigrid("test")

In my plugin I have:

Plugin.prototype.test = function() {
    return "return this!!";
};

Using the debugging tool of Chrome I found that my method is executed normally

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The result is:

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As you can see the result is not displayed

The full plugin code in: https://gist.github.com/1725981

The method is in line 141, but the problem with all methods

Answer 1

} else if (typeof options === "string" && options[0] !== "_" && options !== "init") {
        return this.each(function() {

By passing "test" you will hit this if. return this.each will return this which is the jquery object.

return within the each has a different meaning.

From the docs:

We can break the $.each() loop at a particular iteration by making the
callback function return false. Returning non-false is the same as a
continue statement in a for loop; it will skip immediately to the next
iteration.