Should I use jQuery Templates?

I have a page where search results are loaded from an XHR response. What are the advantages of using jQuery templates to display search resu开发者_Python百科lts in this situation, rather than using a more conventional approach with .html() or .load()?

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Using templates allow you to keep a lot of escaped markup outside of Javascript code. Most Javascript solutions now use the technique (first documented, as far as I know, by John Resig): you put the template markup inside a script tag with a type attribute set to text/html (or some other content-type unrecognized by the browser text/tmpl, text/jstmpl, whatever).

As for the specific choice of jQuery templating, this is a matter of some discussion. For a while it looked like that code was going to become a part of the core jQuery code, but apparently that's off the agenda.

(There are many alternative templating libraries, though -- personally I like Mustache because it's been ported to many languages besides Javascript, which I find useful.)

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The main advantages are:

• Using a template engine makes it easy to separate out what's being displayed from how it's being displayed.
• You can reuse templates, if you need them in different scenarios

The main disadvantage of a javascript templating engine is the overhead of execution, but it's only a problem if your template is big.

Hope this helps. Cheers