Comments on: jQuery Slug Plugin

By: BandonRandon

BandonRandon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:41:30 +0000

Thanks for this plugin it saved me a lot of time messing with regex and such. I know this is almost a year old now but I would like to contribute one suggestion. I added the “trim()” function to the slug content before adding the hyphens this prevents extra hyphens if spaces are left at the beginning or end of the title.

var slugcontent = $this.val();
var slugcontent_trim = jQuery.trim(slugcontent);
var slugcontent_hyphens = slugcontent_trim.replace(/\s+/g,’-');

http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.trim

Brooke

By: veena

veena — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:07:32 +0000

I take your jquery plugin and combined it with urlify function from Django (BSD Licence) framework generated admin. You can take it and improve. Here it is:
http://dvanula.cz/jquery.slug2.js

Comments for your todo:
Ajax should stay away from this plugin, I think. For that you can use:
http://malsup.com/jquery/form/

By: Perry

Perry — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:53:23 +0000

Thanks for the improved regex, Karl! I’ll add that and a few other improvements to the next release.

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:35 +0000

That’s a nice little plugin you’re putting together.

One way you might be able to avoid the hyphens piling up when spaces are repeated is to modify the regex slightly:

var slugcontent_hyphens = slugcontent.replace(/\s+/g,'-');

Keep up the good work!