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jQuery Templates

Create a Template (most basic way):

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<script id="book-template" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
    <li>${name} (${year})</li>
</script>

Note that the type attribute is set to text/x-jquery-tmpl (text/html would do the trick as well). Anything other than text/javascript is ignored by the browser. Also, leaving it out entirely will default to text/javascript (thank you, HTML5 for making it OK to do that).

Data:

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var books = [
    { name: 'The Gunslinger',               year: '1982' },
    { name: 'The Drawing of the Three',     year: '1987' },
    { name: 'The Waste Lands',              year: '1991' },
    { name: 'Wizard and Glass',             year: '1997' },
    { name: 'The Wolves of the Calla',      year: '2003' },
    { name: 'Song of Susannah',             year: '2004' },
    { name: 'The Dark Tower',               year: '2004' },
    { name: 'The Wind Through the Keyhole', year: '2012' }
];

Load the template with data:

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$('#book-template').tmpl(books).appendTo('#book-list');

To be totally explicit: the first selector is the ID of the template (script tag), the argument being passed to .tmpl is the array, and then we’re appending the whole thing to the #tower-list object in the DOM.

Now don’t forget some HTML:

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<ul id="book-list"></ul>

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