I noticed that if a flag uses HTML special characters, they get encoded and printed using the encoded string instead of the decoded string.

Ex: my flag is “Bed & Breakfasts”, after applying $. smartlist() to the list, “Bed & Breakfasts” is printed “Bed & Breakfasts”

Is this something that would be easy to fix (I’m using the jQuery version)?

Thanks for the post! I’m very glad to hear it’s coming in handy. :-)

And yes, the # problem was definitely a bug. Was this with the jQuery or Prototype version?

– Ben

Your SmartLists project was a welcome find allowing us to paginate a set of products in an online store without having to use .NET postbacks to determine the page and dataset needed to repopulate the page. It is definitely going to make viewing the product list much faster and enjoyable and the built-in “keywords” filtering is a super-bonus!

I did, however, find one thing with the previous/next page linking not to my liking and this was likely just a bug. When clicking the back/forward links, the page was being sent to a new URL (/page.htm#, that is) due to the click event not returning false to the browser and aborting the click event. This was easily fixed by simply changing the call to “currSmartList.changePage(e)” to “return currSmartList.changePage(e)”.

Thanks for all your hard work on this project. It is a great time saver and adds tremendously to the end-user experience as well as server overhead AND search engine indexability by allowing us to put all the relevant content on the page and avoiding repeated postback events.

-Some Rando

var flagIndex = flagIndex;
if (event.target.value == “smartlist-all”) {
flagIndex = event.target.value;
}
else if (event.target.value != undefined)
flagIndex = parseInt(event.target.value);

Now ev’thing seems just fine, thanks again for the script :)

thanks for the script, unfortunately the select-flag-dropdown did not work for me, had to change the following line in jquery.smartlists-uncompressed.js:

from
(359) flagIndex = event.target.value;
to
(359) flagIndex = parseInt(event.target.value);

tried on FF3 and IE7.

Really interesting plugin — I like it a lot.

I have a problem and a request.

Problem:
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Not sure if it is my implementation or if smartLists does not play well with (an)other jquery plugin but when I switch pages by clicking the number, the page switch happens, but with no animation. When I click the next or previous page, the page switch happens but the redirects to the home page. I have put up an example here:
http://www.theintoy.co.uk/index.php?cPath=1_27&sl=test

If you try to change pages using the number and the next previous you will see what I mean. Interestingly, I get the animation if I change the drop down list from All to (33) after I have done a page change.

Request.
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For good UI, I would like to put the tags:
<div id=”sl-flag-dropdown”></div>
&ltdiv id=”sl-pagination”></div>

at the top and the bottom of the list, but it appears that only 1 set is allowed. Can this be altered to allow the pagination controls multiple times?

Thanks for the great work. I hope the weekend event went well.

– Ben