Summary

Allow a UI component (in particular form elements) to be marked as something that could be enabled with explict user interaction. Decouple the feature status from the page markup.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=enableable

Examples

JavaScript

$('.enab1').enableable();
$('.select1').enableable({enabled: true});
$('textarea #my-enable-ta')
  .css('border', '1px solid #888')
  .enableable(
    {
      locked: true,
      display: 'opaque',
      hint: 'Use widget',
      debug: true
    });

HTML

<div class="jq-enableable">
  <h1>.jq-enable</h1>
  <form>
    <input type="text" name="text1"/>
    <div class="enab1" data-enableable="Edit now...">
      <h2>.enab1</h2>
      <select name="select1">
        <option/>
        <option>option1</option>
        <option>option2</option>
      </select>
      <div id="my-enable">
        <h3>#my-enable</h3>
        <textarea id="my-enable-ta">
        </textarea>
      </div>
    </div>
  </form>
</div>

Configuration

• locked: false
• enabled: false
• autorun: true
• display: disabled (disabled, hidden, opaque)
• debug: false
• hint: “Enable” > @data-enableable
• enable-if-populated: TBD
• clear-when-disabled | reset-on-disable

Tasks

Design notes and examples

Should be sufficiently small that dependency management isn’t required.

Depends on jQuery since it requires UI component selection.

No templating since the UI components are so small.

No validation since this is a wrapper.

Build through grunt.

No JSDoc processing initially (given configuration pattern).

Nomenclature

• http://xith.org/javadoc/jagatoo/org/jagatoo/datatypes/Enableable.html
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disableable
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disablable

Research notes

https://speakerdeck.com/addyosmani/building-decoupled-large-scale-applications-using-javascript-and-jquery

Wrapping classes

jQuery

Options

• Create the enabler markup in page http://joaquinnunez.cl/jquery-enable-disable-plugin/
• Disable the form then bind click of option to enable http://andreasnylin.com/blog/2011/09/jquery-disable-plugin/
• Parent has hint with inputs as editables() http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jqueryeditable
• A checked test on a “Enable Form” checkbox http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/form-dependancies
• .ui-state-disabled with jQuery UI http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/

Research

See related enable and disable widget notes in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI_widget .

Frameworks

• AngularJS: not part of the core implementation
• YUI: reasonable but not part of core stack. See control-disabled for http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/button/
• Backbone: not model heavy; controller logic
• jQuery UI doesn’t have component for performing the task http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/

Plugins

Searched through the plugins directory to find something similar.

• Validation http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation doesn’t have a lock or disable wrapper
• ThemeRoller locked? or disabled? didn’t have an
• http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/projects/plugins/forms showed jqueryeditable
• Backbone with a validation check that a field is not populated: https://github.com/thedersen/backbone.validation

Name

• jquery-enableable - none
• jqueryenableable - none
• jq-enableable - none
• jquery-disabled - viable options
  • http://andreasnylin.com/blog/2011/09/jquery-disable-plugin/
  • http://joaquinnunez.cl/jquery-enable-disable-plugin/
• jqueryeditable - convert to contenteditable
  • http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable
  • http://www.arashkarimzadeh.com/jquery/7-editable-jquery-plugin.html
• jquery-editable - see above
• jq-editable - contenteditable
  • https://github.com/noodlehaus/jq-editable
• jq-plugin-editable - rewrite to form element
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/Editable