This jQuery plugin takes advantage of Google Maps API version 3 to create an easy to implement store locator. No back-end programming is required, you just need to feed it KML, XML, or JSON data with all the location information.
Get the first element(s) that matches the selector by traversing down through descendants in the DOM tree level by level. It use a breadth first search (BFS), that mean it will stop going deeper in a subtree if the first matching descendant was found in the current subtree.
This store locator is a module you can fully integrate in your website, with your design and with your backend. With just a few configuration you’ll get a working store locator for your business, which uses the Google Maps API. You can also customize it the way you want it to be.
.subordinate() is a combination of .append() and .find(). It appends an element but returns this new created jQuery object. That makes your code way much shorter and cleaner, when building complex DOM structures on-the-fly.