Advanced

Learning jQuery has an excellent posting on recommended practices when creating a custom plugin. If you are moving beyond a simple plugin, this post is a great guide.

• A Plugin Development Pattern

The documentation for clueTip is thorough and should be the primary source of information when using clueTip. However there are some topics that are not fully revealed. One such topic is passing dynamic data to an Ajax call, and then modifying the the results when they are retrieved and displayed.

NOTE: All clueTip options are defined at http://plugins.learningjquery.com/cluetip/#options. Please refer to this to learn more about the options used below.

All other jQuery Ajax methods are simply convenient methods to hide the details of how Ajax is done. But with the convenience we loose some capabilities. The $.ajax() method gives those capabilities back to us. Using the $.ajax() method we can even ignore the convenience functions of .load(), .get(), .post(), etc.