Format Helpers

Formatters provide you with a way to change the default rendering of a template.
To illustrate the way these Format Helpers work, we will pretend we have the following data in our database:

name	price	url	date
Golden Pickles	4022	pickles.html	2009-02-23:12:23

When you are rendering your template, use the following Format Helpers to change the template is rendered.

$.formatDate(format, value);

This will format a date, and place it into the element defined by the selector.

$(".myclass").formatDate("m D Y, H:i", "date");

$.formatNumber(number, options);

This will format a number, and place it into the element defined by the selector.

$(".myclass").formatNumber("price", {
     decimals: 0,
     decPoint: ".",
     thousandsSep: ","
});

Options	Description
decimals	Number of decimals to show. Set the value to 0 if you do not want to have any decimals.
decPoint	Define the character for the decimal point.
thousandsSep	Define the character to separate the number in multiples of thousands.

$.formatLink(text, href, options);

This will format the link (<a>) defined by the selector before it is displayed.

$("a.myclass").formatLink("Product Name: {name}", "mysite.com/{url}", {
     title: "I am a link.",
     className: "cname",
     Target: "_blank"
});

Options	Description
title	Set the Title attribute for the Anchor Tag. Accepts a string.
className	Set the Class attribute for the Anchor Tag. You can pass multiple Class Names, separated by spaces. This will only Add Class Names to the Anchor tag, and not remove any existing Class Names.
target	Set the Target attribute for the Anchor Tag. Accepts a string

$.submitsTo(controller, options);

$("form.myclass").submitsTo(controller, {

});