Hiding the Page Counter with the jQuery Quick Pagination Plug-in

If you’re web designer who’s looking for a lightweight JavaScript package that lets you paginate multiple HTML elements easily, without having to sacrificing the accessibility of your carefully-crafted web pages, then you may want to take an in-depth look at Quick Pagination. It's a small jQuery plug-in that will do the hard pagination process for you in a truly unobtrusive fashion.

Developed and maintained by Mark Perkins, Quick Pagination is a handy JavaScript library capable of splitting different web page elements into chunks of readable data. Additionally, it offers a great level of customization. This valuable feature allows developers to modify both the behavior and appearance of its core pagination mechanism to suit the requirement of different web-based projects.

Of course, if you’ve already had the chance to take a peek at the tutorial that precedes this one, then you're already familiar with the basic concepts that surround the use of Quick Pagination. In that introductory part of the series I showed how to use the plug-in to paginate a set of HTML paragraphs.

The beauty of this process is in its simplicity; the entire pagination procedure required us to download the jQuery library along with the plug-in’s source file, and then to invoke its “quickpaginate()” method with the proper incoming arguments. It was that easy, really.

The plug-in accepts an optional parameter called “showcounter” for displaying a basic page counter in addition to the typical “prev” and “next” links found in many paging systems. Since the example discussed before displayed this counter on screen, in the lines to come I’m going to show you how to hide it from view, thus digging a bit deeper into the customization capabilities offered by Quick Pagination.

Now, it’s time to explore a few more features provided by Quick Pagination. Let’s jump in!