I'm making a table of contents, in the style of an ordered list, based on the header structure, such that:
<h1>lorem</h1>
<h2>ipsum</h2>
<h2>dolor</h2>
<h3>sit</h3>
<h2>amet</h2>
becomes:
This is how i'm currently doing it:
$('h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6').each ()->
# get depth from tag name
depth = +@nodeName[1]
$el = $("<li>").text($(this).text())
do get_recursive_depth = ()->
if depth is current_depth
$list.append $el
else if depth > current_depth
$list.append( $("<ol>") ) unless $list.children().last().is('ol')
$list = $list.children().last()
current_depth += 1
get_recursive_depth()
else if depth < current_depth
$list = $list.parent()
current_depth -=1
get_recursive_depth()
which works, but it seems like it lacks elegance. Is there a smarter / faster / more robust way to do this?
jQuery emplementation:
var $el, $list, $parent, last_depth;
$list = $('ol.result');
$parent = [];
$parent[1] = $list;
last_depth = 1;
$el = 0;
$('h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6').each(function () {
var depth;
depth = +this.nodeName[1];
if (depth > last_depth) {
$parent[depth] = $('<ol>').appendTo($el);
}
$el = $("<li>").text($(this).text());
$parent[depth].append($el);
return last_depth = depth;
});
Maybe someone will come in handy))
Here's the way I would do it:
http://jsfiddle.net/edi9999/cNHPW/
Instead of traversing the DOM up and down, I store the parent for each h1..h6 tag, and I than know where I have to append the current li element. $el
and last_depth
are global variables (That's why I put the line $el=0
outside of the function)
$list=$('ol.result')
$parent=[]
$parent[1]=$list
last_depth=1
$el=0
$('h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6').each ()->
# get depth from tag name
depth = +@nodeName[1]
if depth>last_depth
$parent[depth]=$('<ol>').appendTo($el)
$el = $("<li>").text($(this).text())
$parent[depth].append $el
last_depth=depth