I must have been getting forgetful when I posted that suggestion. As I
mentioned, .toSource() is not available in all browsers, so it wouldn't be
suitable for your CMS feature that you want to make available to your site's
visitors.
But .toString() *is* available in all browsers, and it gives you the source
code for a function. So you can just use that instead.
Here's a test case:
http://mg.to/test/jquery-methods.html
That page lists all of the jQuery and jQuery() methods in alphabetical
order.
The code is:
jQuery(function() {
dump( 'jQuery', jQuery );
dump( 'jQuery()', jQuery.prototype );
function dump( title, object ) {
var list = [];
for( name in object ) {
var fn = object[name];
if( jQuery.isFunction(fn) ) {
list.push( '<div>' + title + '.' + name +
fn.toString().match(/(\([^)]*\))/)[1] + '</div>' );
}
}
$('#list').append( '<h3>' + title + ' methods:</h3>' +
list.sort().join('') );
}
});
-Mike
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From: Dirceu Barquette
WOW!!!
.toSource is amazing!!! thank you again!!!!
Dirceu Barquette
2008/12/23 Michael Geary <m...@mg.to>
So you have a list of the methods of an object and you want to find out what
the parameters to each method are, is that right?
There are three ways you can do this:
1) In Firefox, you can call the .toSource() method of an object (including a
function) to see its source code. For example, try this in the Firebug
console:
(function foo(a,b,c){}).toSource()
.toSource() isn't available in all browsers.
2) Of course, if you're doing that, you may as well just go back to the
original source code, which will also have some comments:
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.js
For most functions, you can search for functionname: to find it. There are a
few exceptions such as the height() and width() methods - you'll find those
with a search for Height or Width.
3) There is the documentation too:
http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
-Mike
