javascript-events

What is the best way to make the Yahoo media player autostart, jQuery?

Yahoo has a mediaplayer to play media on a webpage: http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/ but there is no option to make it auto start. What is the best way to make it autostart, by hacking into the code, or it can also be using jQuery to "click" on one of the media to auto start it, although, how do you know the Yahoo code has finish ini...

jQuery's click() is not clicking?

I thought jQuery's click() can let us add a handler or just click on an element? However, I tried: $(function() { setTimeout(function() { $('a').first().trigger('click'); // or click(), the same }, 3000); }); and waited 3 seconds and it won't click on the first element in the ...

jQuery's click() can trigger event handlers only for DOM 0 and event handlers registered through jQuery...?

[Update:] This question is related to: what does jQuery's click() do? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3130539/jquerys-click-is-not-clicking The following code: <div id="oneDiv"> some content </div> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com" id="clickme">Click Me</a> </p> [ ... ] onload = function() { $('...

How does one hide content from a user until a stylesheet is loaded and executed?

Hi all smart people! I'm using a jQuery plugin for sliding panes of content. For about 400ms all the page elements flashes up (text, images, etc.) on top of themselves making for a messy garbled jumble...a brouhaha you could say. Then the stylesheet comes along and sorts it all out. But for the sake of professionalism and perfectioni...

How to access / select / attach event to an autocomplete combobox with JavaScript?

The situation: I have a dropdown navigation which contains a login form. The form is only visible when the dropdown (son of suckerfish) is open. The problem: When the user has already filled out the login form once, the browser saves his form input for future logins. Now when the login field receives focus, the browser's own autocomplet...

GWT FocusPanel, tab key and focus handlers

I'm implementing a custom widget extending Composite and implementing Focusable and HasFocusHandlers. The widget contains two widgets in a panel that I wrap into a FocusPanel that I use to initialize the widget. My constructor looks something like that: public CustomBox() { panel = new VerticalPanel(); ... panel.add(caption...

Need to post large amount of Data using xmlHttprequest

Hi, I need to pass huge amount of data to server without page loading i have code enter code here var GlType = "<%=GlType %>"; var pageUrl = "SelectAccount.aspx?callback=true&AccountList=" +accountList +"&AnalysisDate="+analysisDate+"&GlType="+GlType; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) ...

Javascript function not being invoked

Hi, I am trying to invoke a script function on my mvc view as follows. But it's not happening. what may be the reason behind it? <input type="text" id="hdnTemp" value="xyz" onload="test();" /> <script type="text/javascript"> function test() { alert(); ...

javascript textbox new line replacement

I have a text box that can allow the users to hit enter. When they hit enter I check the input and replace the carriage return with \n. However it still sends to my db a carriage return. What could be wrong? Here is the code: var pp = comment.value; alert(pp.replace(/\r?\n|\r/g, "\n")); comment.value = pp.replace(/\r?\n|\r/g, "\n"...

Javascript: Slow Loading of Page

Hi, I'm getting javascript errors for all my links that contain javascript events. This is caused by the user trying to click on a link, and yet the javascript files have not been loaded yet. How can I resolve this issue? Is there any way of blocking the javascript events until all the javascript files are loaded? Thanks. ...

howto Zend_Dojo_Form_Element_FilteringSelect onchange submit

Well the title pretty much says it all. I had $strata = new Zend_Form_Element_Select('strata'); $strata->setLabel('Select a strata: ')->setMultiOptions($this->stratalist)->setAttrib('onChange', 'this.form.submit()'); Then I need to use some fancy dojo form elements in other forms. So I decided to make them all look the same and did th...

jQuery.replaceWith() on input field and regaining focus in IE

There is a script http://gist.github.com/457324 that sets default text (taken from element's title attribute) for empty input[type=text] and input[type=password] elements. For password elements it is not that trivial though. If I did $(this).attr('value', $(this).attr('title')); for input[type=password] it would just show dots instead...

How to check id of textbox in javascript?

Hello, I have this great javascript that automatically populates the values of all textboxes on a page with a number, starting at 1 then increasing. function editTextBoxes() { var textboxs = $('input:text'); for (i = 0; i <= textboxs.length; i++) { $('input:text:eq(' + i + ')').val(i + 1); } } ...

Track Ajax requests on a page

I have a web page and I am associating a note with the page storing it in my database, so that the whenever the next time the page is loaded that notice can been seen till it is deleted by some other user authorized to do the same. However, say I associate a note with the page after some content is loaded through AJAX. I want the note to...

checkboxes within the span, select deselect

I have the following html generated through my php code. What I want to do is that when I select the checkbox in span "row" then the checkboxes for "main_row" span in which "row" is contained in, should be cheked automatically. Also when I deselect the "main_row" checkbox, then all the contained in "row: checkboxes should be desel...

Authomatic data change announcement from website without local application

Hello, I have a very interesting question (at least in my opinion). There is a website using PHP/Javascript/MySQL and users of the website want to get announcement of some data changes, like Yahoo Messenger shows you that you've got new emails, but without writing an application. Is it possible to make a feature for the website to make...

How to do an action only when there is no default in Javascript / jQuery ?

I'm asked that a click anywhere in a div does a specific action (say collapse it) unless the click was on a link, a button, etc... Basically, I'd like the reverse of event.preventDefault(). Is there a good and easy way to do this? I'm looking for a generic solution here; I would like to not assume much about the content of the div. M...

checkboxes code

I have this code that will check the top level checkbox if the checkboxes underneath it are selected. What I also want to do is to unselect the top level check box, if there are no checkboxes selected underneath it. How can I modify this. Thanks if(this.parentElement == pg.thePart) { var terminate = false; v...

programmatically firing a click handler

I'm using dojo. I've got something like this: <a id="fooBar" onclick="foo();bar();">Foo then Bar</a> I want to trigger fooBar's click handler from another button. Something like: <a onclick="dojo.query('#fooBar')[0].click()">Do FooBar</a> Can I do that? ...

Using jQuerys document.Ready function to attach events to elements

Normal style <a href="#" id="myLink" onclick="myFunc();">click me</a> function myFunc() { alert('hello!'); } jQuery style <a href="#" id="myLink">click me</a> $(document).ready(function() { $("#myLink").click(function() { alert('hello!'); }); }); I've just started using jQuery, but I'm wondering what the diffe...