Spying on JQuery Selectors in Jasmine

Question

I am unit testing some JavaScript with Jasmine and wish to spy on (mock) an element of the DOM that is accessed by a jQuery selector.

My spec is:

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Answer 1

I think there is a change in my jasmine version (2.0.3), hence the solution by Alex York didn't work as is, but definitely gave me a path. So here is the working spec jquery code which is to be tested

$('someSelector').data('someAttribute').enable();

here is the jasmine spec part of it

var mockJqueryObject = { enable:function(){},disable:function(){}};
//this mocks the .data('someAttribute') in above code.
spyOn($.fn, "data").and.returnValue(mockSelectBoxObject); 

A more granular spec could use another level of mock as

spyOn(mockJqueryObject,"enable")
spyOn(mockJqueryObject,"disable")