Jquery extends element

Question

I want to extend the functionality of my textarea element. The textarea elements should respond when I call a method like this:

$('#jsedit').jsedit();

I know it can be done by doing like this:

$(function() {
    $.fn.extend({
        jsedit: function() {
            alert(this.val());
        }
    });
});

but how can I specify only the textarea can do this? Because now every element can called jsedit() method.

Answer 1

Like this:

$(function() {
    $.fn.extend({
        jsedit: function() {
            if ($(this).is('textarea')) {
                 //your stuff
            }
        }
    });
});

console.log($('#your_textarea').jsedit());

EDIT: complete statement

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flo