Question

I have a parseuri jQuery plugin method that affects the .val() of an input otherwise the element’s .text(). Although this question is general, this specific method parses URLs for example:

// assume text box contains URL like [ http://example.com:80 ]
$('input:text').parseuri().authority; // get the authority of the domain

// or if in a div
$('div#url').parseuri().port; // get the port of the url

How can I call this jQuery method on a standard string without using a selector?

Context

The plugin is my own, based on the jQuery Maintaining Chainability code sample here and it wraps this parseUri 1.2 JavaScript method.

I pasted my initial attempt here:
http://jsfiddle.net/wyPKH/

I was hoping to have a plugin version of the parseUri JavaScript method that can operate on both elements and plain strings in a consistent manner.

Answer 1

Well, if this is plugin that uses jquery objects you still need to have jquery object

So you have to create element, but it is not mandatory to insert it into dom

$('<tmp>').append(yourTextVariable).yourPlugin()