Question

This may be easier to give an example, i’m making a jQuery plugin, i don’t want the user to pick an element to run the plugin on, just to pass it data. ie:

$('body').myPlugin({'value' : 'hey'}); //just want to pass it values, 'body' is irrelevant

How can i go about doing this?

Answer 1

You could use the extend method:

$.extend({
    myPlugin: function(someArg) {
        //Do stuff
    }
});

When only one argument is supplied to extend, the object to be extended is assumed to be jQuery itself. You can then access your function as follows:

$.myPlugin({'value' : 'hey'});