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Wednesday, 3 November 2010

jQuery Google Feed Plugin

This plugin provides a nice easy way for developers to implement the Google Feeds API in their site. In the example below, I've also added some ugly style elements to help show how the appearance can be manipulated.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>jQuery Google Feed Plugin</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
font-size:62.5%;
}
#feeds
{
margin:0 auto;
width:80em;
background:#CCCCCC;
}
.gfc-control
{
width:40em;
font-size:1.2em;
}
.gfc-tabsArea
{
background:#FF9200;
}
.gfc-tabHeader.gfc-tabhActive
{
font-weight:bold;
}
.gfc-tabHeader.gfc-tabhInactive
{
font-style:italic;
}
.gfc-resultsbox-visible
{
background:#D3EDFC;
}
.gf-title
{
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery.malsup.com/gfeed/jquery.gfeed.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('a.feed').gFeed(
{
target:'#feeds',
max:3,
tabs:true
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="feeds">
<a class="feed" href="http://jquery.com/blog/feed/">jQuery Blog</a>
<a class="feed" href="http://www.learningjquery.com/feed/">Learning jQuery</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>