(function($){
//
Creating the sweetPages jQuery plugin:
$.fn.sweetPages = function(opts){
// If no options were passed, create an empty opts object
if(!opts) opts = {};
var resultsPerPage = opts.perPage || 3;
var swDiv = opts.getSwDiv || "swControls";
// The plugin works best for unordered lists, althugh ols would do just as well:
var ul = this;
var li = ul.find('li');
li.each(function(){
// Calculating the height of each li element, and storing it with the data method:
var el = $(this);
el.data('height',el.outerHeight(true));
});
// Calculating the total number of pages:
var pagesNumber = Math.ceil(li.length/resultsPerPage);
// If the pages are less than two, do nothing:
if(pagesNumber<2) return this;
//
Creating the controls div:
//var swControls = $('<div class="swControls">');
var swControls = $('<div class='+swDiv+'>');
for(var i=0;i<pagesNumber;i++)
{
// Slice a portion of the lis, and wrap it in a swPage div:
li.slice(i*resultsPerPage,(i+1)*resultsPerPage).wrapAll('<div class="swPage" />');
// Adding a link to the swControls div:
swControls.append('<a href="" class="swShowPage">'+(i+1)+'</a>');
}
ul.append(swControls);
var maxHeight = 0;
var totalWidth = 0;
var swPage = ul.find('.swPage');
swPage.each(function(){
// Looping through all the newly created pages:
var elem = $(this);
var tmpHeight = 0;
elem.find('li').each(function(){tmpHeight+=$(this).data('height');});
if(tmpHeight>maxHeight)
maxHeight = tmpHeight;
totalWidth+=elem.outerWidth();
elem.css('float','left').width(ul.width());
});
swPage.wrapAll('<div class="swSlider" />');
// Setting the height of the ul to the height of the tallest page:
//ul.height(maxHeight);
var swSlider = ul.find('.swSlider');
swSlider.append('<div class="clear" />').width(totalWidth);
var hyperLinks = ul.find('a.swShowPage');
hyperLinks.click(function(e){
// If one of the control links is clicked, slide the swSlider div
// (which contains all the pages) and mark it as active:
$(this).addClass('active').siblings().removeClass('active');
swSlider.stop().animate({'margin-left':-(parseInt($(this).text())-1)*ul.width()},'slow');
e.preventDefault();
});
// Mark the first link as active the first time this code runs:
hyperLinks.eq(0).addClass('active');
// Center the control div:
swControls.css({
'right':'10%',
'margin-left':-swControls.width()/2
});
return this;
}})(jQuery);
