Thank you for this good plugin.

I have some improvement suggest:

• double or more dash into single dash
• remove first and last dash

Find

return str.toLowerCase()

Replace with

return str.toLowerCase().replace(/[-]+/g, '-').replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '');
// .replace(/[-]+/g, '-')   replace -- more to single -
// .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '')   remove - at first and last string

Text to test

! lorëm Ipsum блог sit amet بلوق vivendum 博客  ãàáäâẽèéëêìíïîõòóöôùúüûñç·/_,:; !

Result

lorem-ipsum-6jior-sit-amet-vivendum-aaaaaeeeeiiiiooooouuuunc

Hope this help, thanks.

There is a bug where for every space you add in the title, an extra dash will be placed in the slug. I think that it should probably trim it down and only ever use one dash.

Hi,

It appears a residual "-" character at the end of the string when you type the following string: Merci a vous tous !

This is converted to : merci-a-vous-tous-

How can we fix this ?

Thanks

When updating the slug on the target you have the following line:

$target.filter(':not(.slugify-locked)').val(slug).text(slug);

The appended .text(slug) on the end is causing jQuery script errors in IE7 and IE8 (yes, I know, move forward Internet please!).

Was just wondering why you are doing both val(slug) and text(slug)? Is this so you can cater for other HTML elements apart from inputs?

Thanks

There is a bug where if you type a title that gets converted to a slug (using default settings), and then modify the slug and then tab out. if you're using default settings all your dashes will be removed. I added to the map "2d":"-" which will replace dashes with dashes which works well for if your editing the title and also if you're editing the slug

I noticed when using your plugin that plenty of characters where missed and the worst part was that the chars where "translated" only once and ignored after that in future inputs (not even replaced by a dash).

Example 1

• String: El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi. La cigüeña tocaba el saxofón detrás del palenque de paja.
• Result (before): el-veloz-murci-lago-hind-com-a-feliz-cardillo-y-kiwi-la-cigue-a-tocaba-el-saxofon-detr-s-del-palenque-de-paja
• Result (after): el-veloz-murcielago-hindu-comia-feliz-cardillo-y-kiwi-la-ciguena-tocaba-el-saxofon-detras-del-palenque-de-paja

Example 2

• String: Le cœur déçu mais l'âme plutôt naïve, Louÿs rêva de crapaüter en canoë au delà des îles, près du mälströn où brûlent les novæ.
• Result (before): le-c-ur-d-cu-mais-lame-plutot-na-ve-lou-s-reva-de-crapauter-en-cano-au-del-des-iles-pr-s-du-m-lstron-o-brulent-les-nov
• Result (after): le-coeur-decu-mais-lame-plutot-naive-louys-reva-de-crapauter-en-canoe-au-dela-des-iles-pres-du-malstron-ou-brulent-les-novae

I guess that the plugin is now optimal for west european languages.

The refactored code is adapted from "jQuery Slugify a string!" from Pablo Bandin http://tracehello.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/jquery-real-slugify-plugin/ (Dual licensed MIT / GPL)

I just discovered another jQuery plugin on Github that's very similar to this one. It's not as popular as this one (which has been around quite a while) but it's more mature from a software engineering perspective. Rather than continuing to contribute to this repo, I think we should all throw our support behind the newer one. I just posted a proposal on @madflow's repo

Huge thanks to everyone who has used and contributed to this project over the years and taken it much further than I imagined!

1. I want to provide a functionalty to my users to stop slugify. For example:

   var slg = $('#RouteValue').slugify('#Title') slg.stop();

2. My users want to use dot "." in slug. Is there any way?

It gets the point across but sometimes puts letters in the wrong place. Who wants to take a stab at improving this guy?

var pigLatin = function(str) {
    return str.replace(/(\w*)([aeiou]\w*)/g, "$2$1ay");
}

Hint: it would probably be easier to ditch the regular expression and just loop over the letters until you find a vowel.

This plugin should have unit tests to make sure it behaves as expected, the behavior is formally documented, and improvements to the code don't accidentally break anything.