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Introducing jQuery.dirty

Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds

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Introducing jQuery.dirty

Having previously blogged about checking if a form has been modified I needed something slightly different

I came across dirrty, a jQuery plugin by Ruben Torres that I personally found to have a cleaner implementation than the dirtyFields I previously wrote about.

For instance, to check if a form has unsaved changes is a lot simpler

// dirtyFields
var isFormDirty1 = $.fn.dirtyFields.getDirtyFieldNames($form).length > 0;

// dirrty
var isFormDirty2 = $form.dirrty("isDirty");

Dirrty did most of what I wanted to do but I still needed to extend it further.
And so, jQuery.dirty was born.Check out https://simon-reynolds.github.io/jquery.dirty/ for more. Take a look at the code here

It contains a few extra commands, including

var isFormDirty = $form.dirty("isDirty");

var isFormClean = $form.dirty("isClean");

$form.dirty("resetForm");

$form.dirty("showDirtyFields");

To take it for a test drive you can either use git, bower or npm

git clone https://github.com/simon-reynolds/jquery.dirty.git

bower install jquery.dirty

npm install jquery.dirty

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