jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide

Creating a jQuery animation plugin

Plugins are an excellent way of packaging up functionality into an easy to deploy and share module of code that serves a specific purpose. jQuery provides the fn.extend() method precisely for this purpose, making it easy to create powerful and effective plugins that can be easily distributed and used.

There are a few guidelines that should be adhered to when creating jQuery plugins; these are as follows:

• New methods, which are called like other jQuery methods, for example $(elements).newMethod() should be attached to the fn object, and new functions, which are used by the plugin, for example $.myFunction(), should be attached to the jQuery object
• New methods and functions should always end in a semi-colon (;) to ...