I think your plugin is nice and very useful. For your info, I wrote an article in my blog mentioning this plugin and a tweak I did to use special chars like accents in Spanish.

Maybe you are interested, and maybe you’d like to support something like that in your future versions (as @Enrico requested):

http://www.netvivs.com/build-permalinks-slug-with-javascript-jquery

Thanks.

Unfortunately did not see the plugin Veena.

But Thanks for help me.

Thanks for posting the link to the Google Code link. I was hoping there was an update. I also took some of the suggestions leo (above) made above and took the library to re-write the makeSlug(); function in a way that I believe incorporates most of his fixes.

Here is the “new” function:

makeSlug = function() {
var slug = jQuery.trim($this.val()) // Trimming recommended by Brooke Dukes – http://www.thewebsitetailor.com/2008/04/jquery-slug-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-23
.replace(/\s+/g,’-').replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/g,’-').toLowerCase() // See http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1488/
.replace(/\-{2,}/g,’-') // If we end up with any ‘multiple hyphens’, replace with just one. Temporary bugfix for input ‘this & that’=>’this–that’
.replace(/(^[-])|([-]$)/g,”); //recommended by Leo Caseiro to fix starting and ending on a hyphen http://www.thewebsitetailor.com/jquery-slug-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-31
$(‘input.’ + settings.slug).val(slug);
$(‘span.’ + settings.slug).text(slug);

}

Thanks,
Brooke Dukes

It’s true that the first version of this plugin had many bugs, I’ve actually fixed them along the way but haven’t bothered to upload the changes yet. The most recent version is now on Google Code.

I’m sorry that I haven’t added any support yet for internationalization, but a commenter named Veena did borrow some code from Django to handle “special characters” – http://dvanula.cz/jquery.slug2.js .

So, I need to create a new plugin for Convert a string to slug.

Bug 1:
When your string to start on space
Title: ” The test String”
Slug: -the-test-string

Bug 2:
When your string to finish on space
Title: “The test String ”
Slug: the-test-string-

-
Solution1 [http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.trim]
The $.trim() function on jQuery
Ex: slugcontent = $.trim(slugcontent);

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Bug 3:
When your string has 2 special caracters or more glued and without space:
Title: “The test!!String”
Slug: -the-teststring

-
Solution 2
Replace this RegExp (/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/g,”) for (/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/g,’-')
Ex: var finishedslug = slugcontent_hyphens.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/g,’-');

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Bug 4:
When your string has 2 hifens or more:
Title: “-The test String”
Slug: -the-test–string

-
Solution 3
Ex: finishedslug = finishedslug.replace(/[-]{2,}/g,’-');

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Bug 5:
When your string to start on hyphen
Title: “The test String-”
Slug: the-test-string-

Bug 6:
When your string to finish on hyphen
Title: The test String-
Slug: the-test-string-

-
Solution 4
RegExp: /(^[-])|([-]$)/
finishedslug = finishedslug.replace(/(^[-])|([-]$)/g,”);

——

All script with my solutions:
makeSlug = function() {
var slugcontent = jQuery.trim($this.val());
var slugcontent_hyphens = slugcontent.replace(/\s/g,’-');
var finishedslug = slugcontent_hyphens.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/g,’-');
finishedslug = finishedslug.replace(/[-]{2,}/g,’-');
finishedslug = finishedslug.replace(/(^[-])|([-]$)/g,”);
jQuery(‘input.’ + settings.slug).val(finishedslug.toLowerCase());
jQuery(‘span.’ + settings.slug).text(finishedslug.toLowerCase());

}

/* Im from Brazil and my English not is good! */