Jquery Plugins, calling functions from other methods

Question

Like so many other similar questions on here, I am writing my first jQuery plugin. It\'s intended to take a select element and replace the options with clickable list elements,

Answer 1

One way to solve this is to put your defaults, settings and bindOptions function in the methods object (or another object in the broader scope) and reference them accordingly:

var methods = {
    defaults: {
        clickCallback: function() {}
    },
    settings: {},

    bindOptions: function(var1, var2, var3) {
        // Stuff to bind elements
        // Hit the click callback
        methods.settings.clickCallback.call(this);
    },

    // Init method
    init: function(options) {
        methods.settings = $.extend({}, methods.defaults, options);

        return this.each(function() {
            if (element.is('select')) {
                $('option', element).each(function() {
                    // Stuff to create list elements
                    // Bind click handler to the new list elements
                    methods.bindOptions(var1, va2, var3);
                });
            }
        });
    },

    // Disable buttons method
    disable: function(options) {
        $(elementID).children('li')
                    .removeClass('disabled')
                    .each(function() {
            methods.bindOptions(var1, var2, var3);
        });
    }
};