aterkik / jquery-tweet-highlighted

A jQuery plugin that allows tweeting a user selected/highlighted text.

jquery-tweet-highlighted

A jQuery plugin that allows tweeting a user selected/highlighted text.

Installation

Include script after the jQuery library.

<script src="/path/to/jquery.tweetHighlighted.js"></script>

Usage

Simple usage:

$('body').tweetHighlighted();

Advanced usage:

Use any subset of the options below (all of the options are optional).

$('body').tweetHighlighted({
                             // html node to use as the 'Tweet' button
                             node: '<a href="#"><img src="tweet.png" width="90px" height="30px" alt="tweet icon"></a>',
                             // class attribute to attach to the node
                             cssClass: 'btn btn-primary',
                             // minimum length of selected text needed to show the 'Tweet' button
                             minLength: 6,
                             // maximum length of selected text after which the 'Tweet' button is not shown
                             maxLength: 144 * 2,
                             // any extra string to attach to every tweet (mostly used to attach urls)
                             extra: '-- http://github.com/aterkik/jquery-tweet-highlighted',
                             // twitter 'via' handle (basically appends 'via @twitterhandle' to the tweet)
                             via: 'twitterhandle',
                             // arguments to pass to the window.open() function
                             popupArgs: 'width=600,height=600,toolbar=0,location=0'
                          });

Contributing

Pull requests welcome!

jquery-tweet-highlighted's Issues

load the current page URL in "extras"

Is there a way to load the current page URL (vs a static URL for the entire website) via the extras parameter?

Thanks!