jQuery Console

Overview

The jQuery Console plugin allows you to easily create a non-interactive console within a page.

Compatibility

• Known to work with jQuery v3.x.x

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Live Demo

A live demo of this project can be found at https://eatonciaran.github.io/jquery-console/

Usage

Initialise the console by attaching it to a div tag. options is optional.

let options = { msgDirection: "up" };
let myConsole = $("div").console(options);

Log messages with the log method.

myConsole.log("message");

Options

defaultLevel

Integer or string. Set the default severity level of messaages. If an integer it needs to be a valid index of the levels array and if it's a string the value needs to be found in that array.

fadeoutTime

Integer to set how long in milliseconds messages take to fadeout when timeout is being used. Default: 400.

history

Integer to set how many messages to retain. Set to 0 to retain everything (Not recommended). Default: 10000.

levels

Array of severity levels. Modifying this is only useful if the number of default severities is insufficient for your CSS needs. Default ["emergency", "alert", "critical", "error", "warning", "notice", "info", "debug"]

msgDirection

String to denote whether messages are appended to the top or bottom. Default: "down".

• "down": append to the bottom
• "up": append to the top

showTimestamp

Boolean to enable displaying of message timestamps. Default: true.

tagOddEven

Boolean to enable messages being tagged odd or even to allow alternating message styling. Default false.

timeout

Integer to set how long in milliseconds until messages are deleted. Set to 0 for no timeout. Default: 0.

timestampOnLeft

Boolean to control whether timestamp appears on the left or the right of the message. Default: false.

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Utility Methods

log

Logs message to the assigned console. Takes 2 parameters:

• msg: String representing the message to be logged. Required.
• level: Can either be an integer or string representing the desired visual style / severity. Default determined by the option defaultLevel. Assuming the option levels is default the following values are accepted:

Integer	String
0	"emergency"
1	"alert"
2	"critical"
3	"error"
4	"warning"
5	"notice"
6	"info"
7	"debug"

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License

This project is under the GPLv3:

• GNU General Public License v3