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Hover Icon Plugin

Submitted by SurrealDreams on March 11, 2010 - 2:48pm

What does this plugin do? Originally, I created it as a means of adding a hovering icon over links, but the target can be about any element. You can also use clever jQuery selectors to show icons on specific kinds of links, like pdf links, like this:

$('a[href$=.pdf]').hoverIcon({icon : '/images/icons/pdf.gif'});

You could also target any link that’s external (assuming it starts with “http”):

$('a[href^=http]').hoverIcon({icon : '/images/icons/external.gif'});

jQuery newWin Plugin

Submitted by jterenzio on November 6, 2009 - 9:07pm

jQuery newWin Plugin

$.newWin() takes a set of links (usually the entire document's worth) and if they are external it sets them to open in a new window. This way you can avoid having to use the target="_blank" attribute if you want your XHTML to be valid. Links in the same domain are left alone, as well as non-HTTP links.

Example to filter all links in the document:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('a').newWin();
});

Example just for links inside a certain element:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#sidebar a').newWin();
});

Companion Wordpress plugin is attached under the 1.0.1 release. Thank you to http://www.theflow.cc/.