per-word-action

A jQuery plugin utility which idempotently wraps every word within an element in a unique span and assigns each word a line-number data attribute. Takes a per-word callback function as an argument.

Demo: https://jakedowns.github.io/per-word-action/

usage

See index.html for an example.

1. make sure you have jQuery loaded
2. require this plugin or load it via a script tag
3. call it via:

$('#my-element-selector').perWordAction(function($word, line_number){
    // do something per-word here on the $word jQuery object
    // or per-line-number here thanks to line_number <1-based integer>

    // NOTE you can also reference
    // Words via $('.pwa-word') class selector
    // Lines via $('[pwa-line=N]') data-attribute
});

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Note: If your elements contents change and you need to re-wrap, make sure to call this first:

$('#my-element-selector').attr('data-pwa','');

related

• ellipsizer
• pull-quote-center

credit

props to Yoshi on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12105430/1712225