I ran into this same problem today and wrote up this quick plugin that accepts a boolean or function:
$.fn.extend({
showIf: function(fn)
{
var result;
switch (typeof fn) {
case 'function':
result = fn.call(this);
break;
default:
result = fn;
}
if (result) {
$(this.show());
} else {
$(this.hide());
}
return $(this);
}
});
Usage example:
// Show all LI's based on value of condition
var condition = true;
$('ul.tabs li').showIf(condition);
// Show all LI's that contain exactly 3 anchors
$('ul.tabs li').showIf(function()
{
return ($(this).find('a').length == 3);
});
I hope this helps :)
-Hector
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Dylan Verheul
<dylan.verheul@...> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:58, Karl Swedberg <
karl@...> wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Dylan Verheul wrote:
> Hmm, I actually checked the docs for that because that would make
> .toggle an unsuitable overloader. The docs said toggle doesn't take
> arguments:
>
Good :-) Anyway, that means no simple overloading method is available.
Of course it's no problem to code it or even to write a plugin, but I
thought overloading an existing function would make for an interesting
and probably often-used functionality, which was the point of starting
this thread.
