I've made some updates to my dirtyFields jQuery plugin. Here's the rundown:
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Added two new public functions:
- getDirtyFieldNames() returns an array of all currently dirty fields.
- updateFormState() checks the clean/dirty state of all form fields in the specified container
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Made two changes to how the CSS class denoting a dirty/changed form is applied:
- Added a new configuration option ("self") to apply the class to the actual form element.
- Split the single option for applying a style to a changed text input and select drop-down into two separate options for granular control (if you used the textboxSelectContext option with a previous version of the plugin, you will need to update your code).
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Added three new configuration options to control plugin behavior:
- The denoteDirtyFields option controls whether or not the dirty CSS class is applied to the form elements that are dirty/changed.
- The exclusionClass option specifies the name of the CSS class that, when applied to a form field, will exclude that field from being processed by the plugin.
- The ignoreCaseClass option specifies the name of the CSS class that, when applied to a form field, will instruct the plugin to do a case-insensitive evaluation of the current and original states of the field.
All of these changes were implemented in response to code suggestions made a team of developers (listed in the GitHub readme.txt file) who modified the plugin to meet their specific needs in one of their intranet sites.
