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Symbal
Symbal

Reputation: 370

How can I manually disable a called plugin?

I have a site close to completion and am now on the case of fixing some small bugs. The development page can be found at this page and am having a little issue with a few of the jquery plugins used.

The main part of the site is persistent and uses a page controller to handle ajax navigation and plugin instantiation. I am finding though, that after a few clicks around the site, i.e. navigating away from a page and back that when the page functions get called again, they will break and all javascript will cease.

I wonder, is it possible to clear defined "active events" that are currently active. After having a fish around, I caught wind of assigning a variable and then giving that variable the function, but no fish. To use an example, how could I go about disabling the simplified following:

$('#carousel-awards').infiniteCarousel();
$('#another-test').timelinr();

These are two jquery plugins which have no built in method for "shutdown". In essence, I would like a garbage collector of sorts because, once the user navigates away from a page which uses the above two functions, the page HTML is nuked for the moment.

For the sake of clarity, I have tried the following:

1. $('#carousel-awards').unbind('infiniteCarousel');

2: $('#carousel-awards').off('infinitCarousel');

3: $('#carousel-awards').infiniteCarousel = function() { return false; }

4: var test;
   test = $('#carousel-awards').infiniteCarousel();
   test = function(){ return false; }

Thank you kindly for taking the time to read my question

Upvotes: 0

Views: 120

Answers (2)

Bergi
Bergi

Reputation: 665574

I'm not sure about those plugins, but usually calling .remove() on the elements also deletes attached handlers, data-objects et al.; making them garbage-collectable.

Usually plugins, especially ones that store data elsewhere or create DOM elements in different locations, offer a destroy option. If yours have none, a) it is not needed or b) the plugin is not coded well - you either would need to dig in and fix it or use a different one.

Upvotes: 0

ThiefMaster
ThiefMaster

Reputation: 318808

It depends on the plugin. However, if it uses the jQuery UI widget system you can most likely use .infiniteCarousel('destroy') and .timelinr('destroy') to remove those widgets from your elements.

Upvotes: 1

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