The Mike Alsup jQuery Plugin Development Pattern

jquery-plugin-tpl-2.js

//
//taken verbatim from jQuery Fundamentals
//which is at http://jqfundamentals.com/ (see chap. 8)
//and has an unmaintained github repo at https://github.com/rmurphey/jqfundamentals
//
// create closure
//
(function($) {
  //
  // plugin definition
  //
  $.fn.hilight = function(options) {
    debug(this);
    // build main options before element iteration
    var opts = $.extend({}, $.fn.hilight.defaults, options);
    // iterate and reformat each matched element
    return this.each(function() {
      $this = $(this);
      // build element specific options
      var o = $.meta ? $.extend({}, opts, $this.data()) : opts;
      // update element styles
      $this.css({
        backgroundColor: o.background,
        color: o.foreground
      });
      var markup = $this.html();
      // call our format function
      markup = $.fn.hilight.format(markup);
      $this.html(markup);
    });
  };
  //
  // private function for debugging
  //
  function debug($obj) {
    if (window.console && window.console.log)
      window.console.log('hilight selection count: ' + $obj.size());
  };
  //
  // define and expose our format function
  //
  $.fn.hilight.format = function(txt) {
    return '<strong>' + txt + '</strong>';
  };
  //
  // plugin defaults
  //
  $.fn.hilight.defaults = {
    foreground: 'red',
    background: 'yellow'
  };
//
// end of closure
//
})(jQuery);