ajax

HTML: POST for images?

Hello, I am working on a web-application in which dynamically-created images are used to display information. This data is currently sent to the images using a GET query-string but with more complex images and data I am worried about running into problems with the url character limit. I could simply pass the record ID to the image and h...

Detecting Back Button/Hash Change in URL

I just set up my new homepage at http://ritter.vg. I'm using jQuery, but very minimally. It loads all the pages using AJAX - I have it set up to allow bookmarking by detecting the hash in the URL. //general functions function getUrl(u) { return u + '.html'; } function loadURL(u) { $.get(getUrl(u), function(r){ ...

rails in_place_edit: how do I pass an authenticity token?

I am trying to get in place editing working but I am running into this error: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken (ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken) I understand that rails now wants to protect against forgery and that I need to pass a form authenticity token but I am not clear on how to do this with the in_place_edit ...

modularity in struts projects

Which Template-/Ajax-Framework is able to load information of various web application modules (JAR-Files)? ...

Creating a shared workspace with ASP.NET and Ajax

Here's a hypothetical situation I've been wondering about lately. Suppose I have an interactive page created in ASP.NET and Ajax that I want multiple users to be able to manipulate at the same time. What would be the best way to maintain this page's state? Especially if the page was relatively ephemeral, and did not particularly need ...

Autocomplete Dropdown - too much data, timing out

So, I have an autocomplete dropdown with a list of townships. Initially I just had the 20 or so that we had in the database... but recently, we have noticed that some of our data lies in other counties... even other states. So, the answer to that was buy one of those databases with all towns in the US (yes, I know, geocoding is the answe...

IE 7 redirecting after jQuery ajax calls

I have the following code in my file to load a div with HTML from an AJAX call: $('#searchButton').click( function() { $('#inquiry').load('/search.php?pid=' + $('#searchValue').val()); }); This works fine in Firefox and Google Chrome, but whenever I do the search in IE I get redirected back to index.php. I grabbed the URL from Fir...

ASP.NET jQuery error: Unknown Web Method

This is my first time attempting to call an ASP.NET page method from jQuery. I am getting a status 500 error with the responseText message that the web method cannot be found. Here is my jQuery $.ajax call: function callCancelPlan(activePlanId, ntLogin) { var paramList = '{"activePlanId":"' + activePlanId + '","ntLogin":"' + ntLogin...

asp.net output data from DB without any html markup

I'm new to jquery and asp.net so please forgive if this is an obvious question. I'm using a jquery autocomplete plugin which requires that the page it looks up asynchronously for data is in this format as pure text only: product1|price1 product2|price2 product3|price3 WITHOUT ANY OTHER HTML MARKUP. Any other html tags seems to cause pr...

JQuery selectors not finding class on elements in table created by an Ajax XHR in Ruby on Rails

When using $('.foo').click(function(){ alert("I haz class alertz!"); return false; }); in application.js, and <a href = "" class = "foo" id = "foobar_1" >Teh Foobar </a> in any div that initializes with the page, when clicking "Teh Foobar" it alerts and doesn't follow the link. However, when using the same code in a...

Implementing jQuery's jgGrid with ASP.Net and JSON formatting

Has anyone been able to implement the JQuery grid plugin, jqGrid? I'm trying to implement the JSON paging, and I feel like I'm getting close, but that I am also being swamped by inconsequential details. If anyone could post some sample code, I would greatly appreciate it. ...

Web App to best Add, Delete and Edit rows without refreshing the page

I am writing a Time Sheeting web application that involves users entering their tasks for the week. I would like not to have the page refresh so I am exploring ways to add/delete/edit tasks using JavaScript on the client browser. Currently I am using ASP.NET-MVC, Ajax, JQuery and LiveValidation and I am make steady (if slow) progress. ...

Which template engine and Ajax framework/toolkit can load templates from JAR files?

Which Template-Engine and Ajax-Framework/-Toolkit is able to load template information from JAR-Files? ...

How do I fade a row out before postback

I have a table that is created in a DataList in ASP.Net. This table has three fields of text, then a field with an edit button, and a field with a delete button. When a person clicks the delete button, it posts back, deletes the items, and then binds the DataList again. The DataList is in an UpdatePanel so the item smoothly disappears af...

Making my ajax updated div fade in.

I have this code that performs an ajax call and loads the results into two duplicate divs every time a dropdown is changed. I want the results to be faded into the div, to give a more obvious indication that something has changed, as its so seamless its sometimes hard to notice the change! print("$('.ajaxdropdown').change(function(){ ...

Loading content as the user scrolls down.

I am building a blog type page, and I want to load items into the page as the user scrolls down, much like Google Reader, or Soup.io. How would you go about achieving this effect? I've seen some examples which read the height of the page, and have an onScroll even attached to the window so that as the user scrolls down we can test to see...

What is the right way to change the behavior of an <a> tag?

I want to make a link call a Javascript function through the onclick event and not do anything else (follow the link). What is the best way to do that? I usually do this: <a href="#" onclick="foo()">Click</a> But I'm not sure that is the best way and in this case it is navigating to page.html# which isn't good for what I'm doing. ...

Prevent direct access to a PHP page.

How do I prevent my users from accessing directly pages meant for ajax calls only? Passing a key during ajax call seems like a solution, whereas access without the key will not be processed. But it is also easy to fabricate the key, no? Curse of View Source... p/s: Using Apache as webserver. EDIT: To answer why, I have jQuery ui-tabs ...

Transitioning from WinForms to AJAX, what do I need to know?

I currently have a functioning in-house Windows Forms application which extensively uses the DataGridView control for data entry. There are some support issues which are expected when we roll this out to more locations, so one of our consultants has recommended putting together an AJAX application with substantially the same functionalit...

Google Calendar like interface

I need to write an application that essentially functions like a week-view of a calendar, columns for the days and then rows for appointments. Where the height of the appointment box visually represents time. In my case, I just don't want the time of day as the vertical axis, I just want hours or mins. The Google AJAX approach is very...