[jQuery] The Assignment of the Return Value of a jQuery Method/Plug-in to a Reference Variable

[kiusau]

QUESTION:  Please find below three blocks of code and try to answer
the question in all-caps that precedes this code.

CODE DESCRIPTION:  The first block of code uses a jQuery method/plug-
in called toDate( ) that I created. This code has been thoroughly
tested in Firefox, Opera, and Safari.  It works superbly.

The second and third blocks of code work in tandem and are labeled
unworkable, because I am unable to assign the returned value of the
toDate( ) method/plug-in to the citationDate reference variable.  In
an effort to prove that the rest of the code works I have assigned the
Javascript Date( ) object to the citationDate variable instead.  It
works.

I have tried a variety of assignment techniques, but have yet to
stumble on the correct one for toDate( ).  WHAT IS THE CORRECT METHOD
OF ASSIGNMENT?

NOTE:  If you would like to see how the Date( ) object functions, open
to the HTML source document, clear the pop-up menu, pass your cursor
over the Copyright item in the horizontal menubar, and click on the
item labeled Bibliographical Citation.

The behavior of the toDate( ) method/plug-in is visible in the Preface
panel of the HTML source document and appears automatically


KNOWN WORKABLE CONTEXT (HTML Document only)

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
                $('#today').toDate();
                $('#clock').JSClock();
                $('#duration').timePassed();
                $('body').SVG_RoundiesIntializer();
                $().getBrowserInformation();
        });
</script>

HTML SOURCE: http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/Imagine_Prototype/Content/
JS SOURCE: 
http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/Imagine_Prototype/JavaScript/jQ_Imagine.js



TENTATIVELY  UNWORKABLE CONTEXT (JS Document)

function citationPrompt() {
        var pageTitle = document.title;
        var citationDate = new Date();
        var pageReference = this.location.href;
        var citation = new Object();
        citation = {pageCitation: 'Hashimori Iwato. 2000. Imagine: Bridging
Japan\'s Historical Gap. ' + pageTitle + ' &lt;' + pageReference +
'&gt; (' + citationDate + ').'};
        var temp = {
                state0: {
                        html: citation.pageCitation,
                        buttons: {Continue: true},
                        focus: 1,
                        opacity:0.6,
                        submit:function(v,m,f){
                                if(v) {
                                return true;
                                }
                                return false;
                        }
                }
        }
        $.prompt(temp);
}

JS SOURCE:  
http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/Imagine_Prototype/JavaScript/popUpBoxConfiguration.js



TENTATIVELY UNWORKABLE CONTEXT (HTML Document)

 <li><a href="javascript:citationPrompt()">Bibliographical Citation</
a></li>

HTML SOURCE: http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/Imagine_Prototype/Content/

Roddy