The jQuery Address plugin provides powerful deep linking capabilities and allows the creation of unique virtual addresses that can point to a website section or an application state. It enables a number of important capabilities including:
- Bookmarking in a browser or social website
- Sending links via email or instant messenger
- Finding specific content using the major search engines
- Utilizing browser history and reload buttons
A basic implementation in pure JavaScript can look like this:
$.address.change(function(event) {
// do something depending on the event.value property, e.g.
// $('#content').load(event.value + '.xml');
});
$('a').click(function() {
$.address.value($(this).attr('href'));
});
The plugin also provides a jQuery function which can be directly used in the following way:
$('a').address();
The above snippet can be extended with an additional function that processes the link value:
$('a').address(function() {
return $(this).attr('href').replace(/^#/, '');
});
By default the plugin automatically adds the appropriate JavaScript event handler to every link that has a rel attribute in the following format:
<a href="/deep-link" rel="address:/deep-link">Deep link</a>
- Issue 10: Cannot turn off google analytics page tracking
- Fixed lazy loading support.
- Fixed form submission support in IE.
- Fixed issue with the href attribute in older versions of IE.
- Issue 6: Using links without a href attribute causes an error.
- Issue 5: Setting parameter = 0 removes it from address.
- New queryString, parameter and path setters.
- New autoUpdate, crawling and wrap options.
- New generic bind method.
- New Accordion, Crawling and Form samples.
- Support for hash fragments as a part of the value.
- Basic support for forms.
- Improved onhashchange support.
- Switched samples to HTML5.
- Switched to the Closure compiler.
- JSLint compatibility.
- Simple test suite.
- Support for jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.
- New internalChange and externalChange events.
- New Events sample.
- Improved IE support.
- Frameset support.
Initial release.