An Abbreviation Dictionary with jQuery

Abbracadabra, aka dabra.jquery.js, is a simple jquery plugin to fill in titles to abbreviations on a page according to a dictionary. Of course you should include proper title attributes in abbr elements when writing the content, but if you’re lazy or you can’t, this might come in handy.

Usage

var dict = { "css": "Cascading Style Sheets", "dom": "Document Object Model", "api": "Application Programming Interface", }; $('abbr').dabra(dict);

Todo

• A parameter to set the attribute the function is using, this would then enable you to set any variable based on the text of elements

• Case sensitivity, yes, no, parameter?

• Regexp matching option for the text?

• abbra.jquery.js for creating dictionaries based on collected elements on the page

• options should maybe in the long run go something like the following, if there are many possibble `arguments: .dabra({ 'attribute': 'class', 'dictionary': dict, });

  while we stay simple, something like .dabra(dict, optional_attribute_name); should do fine `