How to alert when url contains[...]

Question

How can I disable an input-field with jQuery using GM if the url contains text?

I tried

$(document).ready( function() {
    if($("url:contains('text')")){
        $(".input[id=field-owner]:disabled");
    }
    else {
        $(".input[id=field-owner]:enabled");
    }
});

I don't know what I did wrong. And I also don't know whether url:code is a regular expression to use.

Update

Hi again, thanks for your time putting in this. I guess it's easier to ask/answer how to call an alert when the url contains e.g. "newthread".

So, we have got a url(e.g.): http://forum.jswelt.de/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=1 , and an input-field with id="subject" and a label for "subject". If the url contains "newthread" the input-and label-element should be hidden. Following code works, but not for me. The console says nothing and won't alert though.

var url = window.location.href 
url = "http://forum.jswelt.de/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=1";
    var pos = url.search(/newthread/); 
    if(pos >= 0)
        alert("tadaa");
    else
        alert("mist");

:(

Thank you to all helping me.

Edit inserts the final solution

if (location.href.indexOf("text") != -1) {
$('#fieldname').attr("disabled", true); 

Answer 1

Throw away that snippet. Should be like

(function($){
  $(document).ready(function(){
     var url = window.location.href;

     if(/text/g.test(url)){
        $('#field-owner').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
     }
     else{
        $('#field-owner').removeAttr('disabled');
     }
  });
})(jQuery);

edit

"$ not defined" means you either aren't loading the jQuery library or $ gets overwritten. I put the whole snippet into a self-executing anonymous function which will fix the last issue at least.

Answer 2

try something like this..

function getUrlVars()
{
    var vars = [], hash;
    var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
    for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
    {
        hash = hashes[i].split('=');
        vars.push(hash[0]);
        vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
    }
    return vars;
}

and then you can do

if (getUrlVars()["text"] != null) {
    $input.attr('disabled','disabled');
}

Answer 3

url:contains isn't valid JavaScript, and it will cause a parse error. As with all jQuery selectors, you're actually passing a string for jQuery to parse:

$("url:contains('text')")

That said, url: is not a valid jQuery selector. jQuery isn't actually the solution to this problem; instead use window.location.href to get the current URL, and test it with a regular expression:

if (window.location.href.match(/text/)) {
  // ...
}

The next problem is your code to enable/disable your input boxes. It's... beyond broken. Firstly, if the element has an ID, just use the #id selector. Secondly, selectors like :enabled are for filtering elements - pulling more specific elements from the DOM to work with. They don't actually change the state of the elements they select.

You want something like this:

if (window.location.href.match(/text/)) {
    // apply disabled attribute
    $('#field-owner').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
} else {
    // remove disabled attribute if it exists
    $('#field-owner').removeAttr('disabled');
}

Update

RE: $ not defined:

You aren't including the jQuery library in your page. Make sure you've downloaded jQuery and successfully included it in your page via a <script> tag.

Answer 4

Try this simple thing . Not sure this will suite you. But it will find for the word 'text' and disable the input

​$('input').change(function(){
    var temp = $(this).val();
    var searchTerm = 'text';
    if(temp.search('text') > 0 || temp.search(searchTerm) == 0){
        $("#field-owner").attr('disabled', 'disabled');
    }
});​​​​​​

just change the variable searchTerm and use it. Works for me. DEMO