jquery基础（八）

Data Methods

As your work with jQuery progresses, you'll find that there's often data about an element that you want to store with the element. In plain JavaScript, you might do this by adding a property to the DOM element, but you'd have to deal with memory leaks in some browsers. jQuery offers a straightforward way to store data related to an element, and it manages the memory issues for you.

Example 4.2. Storing and retrieving data related to an element

$('#myDiv').data('keyName', { foo : 'bar' });
$('#myDiv').data('keyName'); // { foo : 'bar' }

You can store any kind of data on an element, and it's hard to overstate the importance of this when you get into complex application development. For the purposes of this class, we'll mostly use$.fn.data to store references to other elements.

For example, we may want to establish a relationship between a list item and a div that's inside of it. We could establish this relationship every single time we interact with the list item, but a better solution would be to establish the relationship once, and then store a pointer to the div on the list item using $.fn.data:

Example 4.3. Storing a relationship between elements using $.fn.data

$('#myList li').each(function() {
    var $li = $(this), $div = $li.find('div.content');
    $li.data('contentDiv', $div);
});

// later, we don't have to find the div again;
// we can just read it from the list item's data
var $firstLi = $('#myList li:first');
$firstLi.data('contentDiv').html('new content');

In addition to passing $.fn.data a single key-value pair to store data, you can also pass an object containing one or more pairs.

 

 

 

 

Feature & Browser Detection

Although jQuery eliminates most JavaScript browser quirks, there are still occasions when your code needs to know about the browser environment.

jQuery offers the $.support object, as well as the deprecated $.browser object, for this purpose. For complete documentation on these objects, visit http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/ andhttp://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/.

The $.support object is dedicated to determining what features a browser supports; it is recommended as a more “future-proof” method of customizing your JavaScript for different browser environments.

Avoiding Conflicts with Other Libraries

If you are using another JavaScript library that uses the $ variable, you can run into conflicts with jQuery. In order to avoid these conflicts, you need to put jQuery in no-conflict mode immediately after it is loaded onto the page and before you attempt to use jQuery in your page.

When you put jQuery into no-conflict mode, you have the option of assigning a variable name to replace $.

Example 4.4. Putting jQuery into no-conflict mode

<script src="prototype.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>var $j = jQuery.noConflict();</script>

You can continue to use the standard $ by wrapping your code in a self-executing anonymous function; this is a standard pattern for plugin authoring, where the author cannot know whether another library will have taken over the $.

Example 4.5. Using the $ inside a self-executing anonymous function

<script src="prototype.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
jQuery.noConflict();

(function($) {
   // your code here, using the $
})(jQuery);
</script>

The $.browser object was deprecated in favor of the $.support object, but it will not be removed from jQuery anytime soon. It provides direct detection of the browser brand and version.

Feature & Browser Detection

Although jQuery eliminates most JavaScript browser quirks, there are still occasions when your code needs to know about the browser environment.

jQuery offers the $.support object, as well as the deprecated $.browser object, for this purpose. For complete documentation on these objects, visit http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/ andhttp://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/.

The $.support object is dedicated to determining what features a browser supports; it is recommended as a more “future-proof” method of customizing your JavaScript for different browser environments.

The $.browser object was deprecated in favor of the $.support object, but it will not be removed from jQuery anytime soon. It provides direct detection of the browser brand and version.