I decided to dig into the new official jQuery Template Plugin developed from Microsoft yesterday. After I finally got the darn thing to work it makes inserting formatted HTML populated with data way easier.
After doing some searches on Google I kept finding articles that announce that Templates would be built into the version 1.5 core. I continued down the path coding by example and researching the API Docs. However I kept running into “tmpl is not a function”. After some continued research I finally found a tiny little comment made by John Resig that it in fact did not make it into the 1.5 release. So now that error makes sense.
To resolve this issue you must still load the jQuery plugin. It appears the plugin is still in beta stages and is available for download from Github or the Microsoft CDN.
Before I’ve been unable to use Microsoft’s CDN because it did not have SSL. But I went ahead and tested to see if they now have it included, and they do!
Here’s how I use it:
<script src="//ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>
This will automatically call it via http or https depending upon the current browser protocol being used.
Chris Tierney 