ulivedit / Meow

A Growl work-a-like plugin for jQuery

jQuery Meow

A plugin to provide Growl-like notifications. Will support bindings for various jQuery events and ability to 'meow' the content of a bound element (e.g. a Rails flash on load) or a message passed as an argument (e.g. button clicks).

Usage example

var options = {
  title: 'Meow Example',
  message: 'Hello, World!',
};

$.meow(options);

See more examples.

Options

Key	Type	Default	Description
message	String, Object	null	Either a string or a jQuery selected element. If it's an element, Meow will use its value, innerHTML or innerText depending on its type.
title	String	null	If a string is given, the meow's title will reflect it. However, if you do no set this and use a selector element in message, it will default to the title attribute of that element if available.
icon	String	null	Sets the image URL for the icon
duration	Number	5000	Sets the duration of of the meow in milliseconds. Any positive, numeric value (including Infinity) is acceptable.
sticky	Boolean	false	Sets the meow to never time out. Has the same effect as setting duration to Infinity.
closeable	Boolean	true	Determines whether the meow will have a close (×) button. If false, yout must rely on the duration timeout to remove the meow.
container	String	null	Sets the root element the meow should be contained within. Be default, meows will be put in an auto-generated container.
beforeCreateFirst	Function	null	Gets called just before the first meow on the screen is created.
beforeCreate	Function	null	Gets called just before any meow is created.
afterCreate	Function	null	Gets called right after a meow is created.
onTimeout	Function	null	Gets called whenever a meow times out.
beforeDestroy	Function	null	Gets called just before a meow gets destroyed.
afterDestroy	Function	null	Gets called right after a meow gets destroyed.
afterDestroyLast	Function	null	Gets called after the last meow on the screen is destroyed.