jQuery template proposal

Introduction

This proposal describes how to add template support to jQuery's core library. More specifically, this proposal describes a new jQuery method called render() that allows you to render a Javascript object and Javascript array as a template using a piece of HTML code.

The purpose of this proposal is to enable plugin developers to utilize a standard way of declaring and rendering templates. It would be helpful for everyone to have a standard method declaration and rendering template:

• Plug-in developers can build rich, data-driven plug-ins, such as the DataGrid plug-in. Plug-in developers can build plug-ins based on the template support of jQuery's core library, so that they can avoid re-implementing the rendering template code every time they develop a new plug-in.
• Plug-in users can declare templates using a standard syntax. Plug-in users do not need to learn a new method every time they create a template; they start with a new plug-in each time.

The proposal has two main parts. The first part contains a brief survey of existing template solutions, and the second part is our proposal for how methods for declaring and rendering a template can be added to jQuery's core library.