Awesome -- I thought there was something like that, now will it pickup on the jquery functions (like trim) or do I need to program that into it?

mkmanning wrote:
Operations like .val() return a string, so If you need to extend a
string you have to use String.prototype:

String.prototype.slug = function(){return this.trim().etc...}

The way you've done it works, but in the same way 'trim' works, i.e.
you have to pass the string to the function:

$.slug($('#form_element').val());

On Oct 21, 3:05 pm, Kerry <tiamat2...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been looking around and besides my best efforts I haven't been
able to figure it out.

All the function extending I see extends on an _object_.

I want to extend on a string.

/**
 * Returns a slug version of a string
 */
jQuery.extend ({
        slug: function( text ) {
                return text.trim().toLowerCase().replace( /[^-a-zA-Z0-9\s]/g,
'' ).replace( /[\s]/g, '-' );
        }

});

I want to be able to do something like:

$('#form_element').val().slug();

The above does not work. I even tried modifying the 'trim' function in
jQuery core to include the rest of the enhancements, but it didn't
work.

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