Comments on: Override Core jQuery Methods

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:40:44 +0000

Its called duck punching, heres a good example of doing it in a way that allows the original function to be called based on a conditional: http://paulirish.com/2010/duck-punching-with-jquery/

By: Guile

Guile — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:25:40 +0000

For anyone looking for a way to overide the “hide” Jquery function, here is how do to it ( you need a return somwhere, otherwise $(somthing).hide().else() will not work)

Bonus, a way to keep the overidden function, and how to still call it !

var originalHideMethod = jQuery.fn.hide;
jQuery.fn.extend({
// Override the core hide() method
hide : function(arguments) { console.log(‘do somthing usefull here’); return originalHideMethod.apply( this, arguments ); }
});

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:20:22 +0000

@Adrian – There actually is a way to extend a core method but not like how MooTools does it. It’d be great if jQuery got to that point one day!

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:14:49 +0000

If JQuery would have been so nicely object-oriented like MooTools, you could have simply extended the class