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Hi, My requirement is to add object list to html element of data attribute using handlebars templating system

Shweth opened Oct 16, 2014
1 comment

When running a lot of rows of data through an each, it gives a slow script warning. Is there a way to make handlebars delay every 100 records or so? Similar to something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/714942/how-to-stop-intense-javascript-loop-from-freezing-the-browser. ...

fanfavorite opened Oct 10, 2014
1 comment

I would like to be able to write handlebars selectors in a JSON style syntax. For example. Instead of: {{articles.[8].title}} {{#each articles.[10].[#comments]}}{{/each}} This would become: {{articles[8].title}} ...

amiller-gh opened Oct 1, 2014
6 comments

I ve written a number of classes which need to be insertable into a handlebars template, which should be replaced with HTML generated by the toString() method in the class. Now, these templates can receive ...

ajeffrey opened Sep 28, 2014
3 comments

http://jsfiddle.net/9D88g/34/ works http://jsfiddle.net/9D88g/33/ doesn t work When assigning an Object with methods, it works without a problem. (see fiddle 1) But if one of these methods is calling ...

MartinMuzatko opened Sep 26, 2014
1 comment

I am creating a handlebars helper, which takes the following form: define([ Handlebars ], function (Handlebars) { Handlebars.registerHelper( myHelper , function (options) { console.log( myHelper ...

kurtmarcink opened Sep 26, 2014
1 comment

Hi, When you are calling new Handlebars.JavaScriptCompiler().compile(environment, options) you get a return value similar to this; (asObject == false) { compiler :[6, = 2.0.0-beta.1 ], main :function(depth0,helpers,partials,data) ...

trmjoa opened Sep 25, 2014
1 comment

html section id= websiteList1 /section script id= websiteList-template1 type= text/x-handlebars-template {{#each websitesData1}} a href= {{w_link}} target= _blank {{w_name}} /a {{/each}} ...

lunix01 opened Sep 25, 2014
2 comments

JSON { filter: [ name: categories , title: Categories , current: first , multiple: false ], records: [ id: 1 name: Total , count: ...

gonace opened Sep 24, 2014
2 comments
AlexJeng opened Sep 23, 2014
1 comment
handlebars-lang:master AlexJeng:patch-1