Question

I want to create a plugin that works like so:

var fmatted = $('someString').myFunction();

I’ve developed jQuery functions in the following manner:

$(someSelector).someFunction();

I know that the selector gets converted to a jQuery object and can be used via this in the plugin. However, if I want to use a string rather than a selector, I’m not sure how I can access that string within my plugin.

Basically, I want to be able to use a plugin to operate on something other than a selector, very much like jQuery’s .trim() function, but I can’t figure out how to access that within the plugin.

Answer 1

use the selector property:

var jQueryObject = $('my string');
var originalString = jQueryObject.selector;// it'll give you 'my string'