UTILS.debounce(_fn_ function, _ms_ delay)

Debouncing is a way of making your Javascript more efficient by reducing the number of times a function will be called. The code for the function is origianlly from Underscore.js, and was copied from this blog post.

It should be used when you have a function that is fired on, for example, keypresses or window resizes. It takes two arguments: the first is the function to be fired, the second is the fire rate limit in milliseconds. Here is an example:

// Sample use of UTILS.debounce
var resizeFn = UTILS.debounce(function() {
  console.log('Window resized');
}, 250);

$window.on('resize', resizeFn);

In this example, the function will only be fired only once, 250 milliseconds after it's last invocation. This could save the function being called hundreds of times and improve your code.

UTILS.isDev()

Returns true if you're on 10.0.2.2 or localhost, false if you're anywhere else.

UTILS.breakEmailAddresses()

Adds a word break opportunity <wbr> before the @ on email addresses, so they break at appropriate points on small screens.

The following div has maximum width of 250px to show how this works.

UTILS.axisResize()

Fires a resized.width or resized.height event if the window is resized horizontally or vertically.

UTILS.dontBreakSpaces(_ob_)

Replaces whitespace with a single   to ensure titles don't wrap.

UTILS.preventOrphans()

Adds a   between the last two words in a header or paragraph, in order to prevent orphans

UTILS.fixLongBreadcrumb()

Adds is-closed class to breadcrumbs that are three or more lines. This collapses all but the first and last items to ellipses (…), which expand the whole breacrumb if clicked.

UTILS.cleanBreadcrumb()

Removes the last item in the breadcrumb if the txt content is "Header". Also removes the preceding .breadcrumb__separator.

UTILS.scrollToHash()

If a page is loaded with a hash in the URL (e.g. www.york.ac.uk/study**#postgraduate**) it may refer to a tab. If there is a tab on the page with that name then this function will fire a click event on the relevant tab and scroll to the top of the tab box.

If it's not a tab, normal fragment behaviour is not affected.

UTILS.fontsActive(_fn_ function, ths context)

Runs a function fn when fonts are activated, using ths as the context.

UTILS.eachIfExists(selector string, _fn_ function)

For many modules, we search through the DOM to find a certain _js-_prefixed class name and, if we find it, turn it in to a module, e.g. an accordion or a toggle switch.

This method does that for you, looking for selector and calling _fn_ with each one.