What are the best AJAX development tools?
Hi there, can anyone please help me to identify the best AJAX development IDE or tools base on the advantages and disadvantages? Thank you ...
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how to intercept processing when Session.IsNewSession is true
I have a small 4-page application for my customers to work through. They fill out information. If they let it sit too long, and the Session timeout out, I want to pop up a javascript alert that their session has expired, and that they need to start over. At that point, then redirected to the beginning page of the application. I'm get...
JavaScript multithreading in IE6?
Is JavaScript multithreading possible in IE6? Are there any third party libraries for this? ...
Setting id to a panel control in gridview
I have a panel control in gridview's template. I need to hide/unhide panel in javascript function, for that i need to pass panel's id to the javascript. The problem is that all panels have the same id in gridview, so I need to set unique id to each panel. I tried to do: <asp:Panel id= "Panel_<%# Eval("ID")%>" and some other variati...
How to randomize a javascript array?
I have one array like this: var arr 1 = ["a", "b", "c", "d"]; How can I randomize / shuffle it? ...
Why isn't IE displaying this alert()?
I have the following piece of code: // setup the AJAX request var pageRequest = false; if(window.XMLHttpRequest) pageRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(); else if(window.ActiveXObject) pageRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); // callback pageRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { alert('pageRequest.readyState: ' + pa...
Javascript regular expression pattern (.+?)
Deal experts, I am kinda new to this Regex thing. When I was analyzing some codes, I frequently come across the pattern .+? or (.+?) I can't seem to find the meaning of this pattern using my noobish deductive reasoning. ...
Creating a function reference that has value parameters not references
I'm not sure exactly how to describe what I want. I want to define a function with the parameters being a local VALUE not a reference. say I have list of objects I want to create for(i = 0; i < 10; i++){ var div = document.createElement("div"); div.onclick = function(){alert(i);}; document.appendChild(div); } Now I believe in ...
What's the easiest way to do form validation for jQuery?
All i want to do is to check if the textfield has been changed. if not, i want to highlight the boxes when submit is pressed. how do i do that? seems very simple, but not sure why every other solution is so complicated ...
Whats Pros and Cons: putting javascript in head and putting just before the body close
Most of javascript and web development books/articles says that you must put CSS in the head tag and javascript at the bottom of the page. But when i open html source of famous websites such as this one stackoverflow, i find they put some js files in the head tag. Whats Pros and Cons of both approaches and when to use which? Found ano...
Jquery Retrieving data from webpage and entering it in database.
Hello Everyone. I am new to Jquery. I want to read specific data(some div's only) from a webpage and store it in my database. Now I am not able to do so as load functions loads the data into the current page id. My goal is to read specific data and store them in database. So which Jquery function should I use for this? if someone can th...
Looping through python-dictionary-turned-into-json in javascript.
In writing a django app, I am returning the following json on a jQuery ajax call: { "is_owner": "T", "author": "me", "overall": "the surfing lifestyle", "score": "1", "meanings": { "0": "something", "1": "something else", "3": "yet something else", "23": "something random" ...
is it better to make function small in javascript?
Recently I read a book(CleanCode) in this book, FUNCTION SHOULD DO ONE THING. THEY SHOULD DO IT WELL. THEY SHOULD DO IT ONLY. and function should be small. But I think the function in javascript. If I split big function to small things, the code is getting longer and It takes more time to render. Is it better to make...
get computed background color as rgb in IE
I am trying to get the RGB background color in IE using the following code: function getStyle(elem, name) { // J/S Pro Techniques p136 if (elem.style[name]) { return elem.style[name]; } else if (elem.currentStyle) { return elem.currentStyle[name]; } else if (document.defaultView && document.defaultVie...
Is a server side script necessary to process a form?
Is a server side script necessary to send a form to email? For example, suppose I want to submit this form. Is it only possible with php asp.net etc. or it can be done with javascript only? <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>HTML form tutorial example</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>HTML form tutorial example</H1> <FORM> Name...
Remove focus from SWF after mouse out..
How Do I remove the focus from a swf using javascript? Now I use jQuery and I can set the focus but using blur does not work on a swf. --EDIT-- Only Firefox and IE seems to get Focus in Chrome & Opera not $("#ebookContainer").hover( function () { this.onmousewheel = function(){ return false }; $('#ebo...
rss help in iphone development
Since my last question was deleted without giving me a chance to reply: I want to build a similar rss parser feed to: http://misc.inexistent.org/ontd/ Can anyone give me really good tutorials that I could build a similar iphone app for my rss feed. I can see it uses jquery, javascript, and ajax. If any can check out the code to head...
In DOM is it OK to use .notation for getting/setting attributes?
Hi In DOM, is it OK to refer to an element's attributes like this: var universe = document.getElementById('universe'); universe.origin = 'big_bang'; universe.creator = null; universe.style.deterministic = true; ? My deep respect for objects and their privacy, and my sense that things might go terribly wrong if I am not careful,...
Download binary without triggering onbeforeunload
I want to kick off a file download for a user when he clicks a link, but I have an onbeforeunload handler that I don't want to get invoked when the download begins. To downloads, I currently have an <a> with the href set to the file location but clicking it results in onbeforeunload being invoked in Chrome (not in FF, though). I know I...
Is it OK to call clearInterval inside a setInterval handler?
I have a piece of Javascript that checks for a condition (via an AJAX call) every n seconds. If that condition is true, it stops checking. I have implemented it in the following way: var stopTimer; var timerId = setInterval(function() { /* Make Ajax Calls and set stopTimer */ if (stopTimer) { clearInterval(timerId); ...