javascript

Font Family Selection With Google Charts?

Is it possible to set font-family for any of the non-flash Google chart visualizations? Specifically for things like the text on the chart axis. Google charts is powerful, but ugly. And unfortunately I can’t move to something nicer, like gRaphael. ...

Get coordinates of Google Maps markers

I am creating a databse containing the names and coordinates of all bus stops in my local area. I have all the names stored in my database, and now I need to add the coordinates. I am trying to get these of a website that contains them all as placemarks on a Google Map. It seems to me like they are being generated from a local server, an...

window.open and searchpopop

Hi all, We are use window.open for open popup. But then we want find it and close. Unfortunately we can`t save this popup handle to variable. P.S. How get list of all windows? ...

Jquery Quicksearch plugin issue with dynamic pages

Quicksearch is really cool... but it has a usability issue that makes it behave weird. A lot of users presses enter after inserting a string so the page is reloaded with no parameters and the queries are destroyed. look at that: http://www.parksmania.it/parco_list.php?rid=1 Adding $('form#filtroRapido').submit(function () { return fal...

Find window previously opened by window.open

We've got the following situation, running from a single domain: Page A uses window.open() to open a named window (a popup player). window.open() gives page A a reference to the window. User now reloads page A. The reference to the named window is lost. Using window.open() to "find" the window has the unfortunate side effect of reloadi...

Javascript - Get query string from a string?

Hi, I'm trying to get the query string from a string (not the current URL). For example, I have a URL 'www.google.com/?query=string', I'd like to be able to run a function on it and get '?query=string' back from it. How would I go about doing this? Thanks ...

Problems with row height in table with expand /collapse in IE

I have ten rows in my table. All the even rows are hidden by default. The odd rows have a 'plus' icon in the first cell. The plus to be clicked to see the next even row in the table. Clicking the icon again will hide the row again. I do this with simple jquery hide and show methods. The problem with this in IE is whenever I expand and ...

Ajax: HTTP Basic Auth and authentication cookie

I want to store the HTTP basic authentication headerline in an authentication cookie, so that I don't have to deal with the authorisation header in subsequent requests (I'm using JQuery): authenticate: function(auth) { var header = "Basic " + $.base64.encode(auth.username + ":" + auth.password); document.cookie = "Authorization:...

CSS Pseudo-selectors and IE

I'd like to use css pseudo-selectors ( parent > child, element:first-child ) in my stylesheet but IE6 doesn't seem to recognize those. Is there any plugin (jQuery preferably) that would allow me to use pseudo-selectors freely without worrying about the damned IE6? Thanks ...

Onkeyup not firing in Opera when using cyrillic layout.

Hello, I'm struggling to understand why the following problem appears. I have an input box and I want to attach an Autocomplete box to it. function input_set_autocomplete_to(obj) { if( obj.type != "text" ) { return; } if( obj.getAttribute("rel") != "autocomplete" ) { return; } obj.setAttribute("autocomplete", "off"); o...

Dynamically generating a file with javascript?

I'm working on a web app for my company that will let us do some image tagging stuff, and I'd like to be able to generates results in the form of a CSV file. I can do this easily enough by dumping the CSV data to a div or something on the page and having the user copy it out. I'd rather have them hit the a generate button and have a CS...

Javascript Phone Swap

I've been trying to find a way to do this but, have not found many resources that specifically relate to this situation. I need a javascript (can make use of Jquery if need be) to swap phone numbers on a site. 2 numbers would be specified. One would show on the site by default. The script needs to be able to create a cookie and do th...

Poll the Server with Ajax and Dojo

I'm using dojo.xhrPost to sent Ajax Requests The call is wrapped by a function sendRequest() I've now to continuously (every 3sec) send the same ajax Post to the server How can I implement a Server Poll with Dojo? I basically need to call sendRequest() every 3 secs ...

A problem with jQuery draggable with a selector handle

Hi, I have a problem where I have code like <table id="table"> <tr> <td>...</td> <tr> </tr> <td>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td>...</td> </tr> </table> and JavaScript such that $('#table').draggable(handle: '#table > tr:eq(0) > td:eq(0)'); but for some reason the entire table becomes the handle. It works when I set the td to have an ident...

jQuery UI autocomplete not working in IE

Hi all, I've got the new autocomplete widget in jQuery UI 1.8rc3 working great in Firefox. It doesn't work at all in IE. Can someone help me out? HTML: <input type="text" id="ctrSearch" size="30"> <input type="hidden" id="ctrId"> Javascript: $("#ctrSearch").autocomplete({ source: "ctrSearch.do", minLength: 3, focus: f...

Comparing YUI and Ext JS

I've been using Ext JS as my rich-widget toolkit for a while, but I'm thinking of moving to YUI, partly because of the less restrictive license. The component-oriented model used in YUI seems quite similar to the one that I've enjoyed so much in Ext JS, but I'm interested in how deep those similarities are. So I'm interested in feedbac...

Jquery Validation Plugin Name Conflict with Zend_Form

Hi all, By default, Zend_Form creates a hidden input field for each checkbox input in the form. These inputs share the same name. <input type="hidden" name="zend-cb" value=""> <input type="checkbox" name="zend-cb" id="zend-cb" value="1"> I want to require the checkbox, so I set up the following rule in my jquery plugin validator (ht...

javascript logo / mascot / insignia

Does JavaScript have a mascot, logo, insignia or otherwise stylistically engaging representation or alias? If not, who would be the best person/organization to get some momentum behind this kind of thing? Doug Crockford? ...

Is it possible (and how) to remove unutilized widgets from Ext JS library?

Hello. Ext JS base and widgets together offer me the solution I've been looking for. The Ext JS library is somewhat heavy w.r.t. conventional standards. There are several widgets in the library that I am not using. So I want to know if it is possible to remove the corresponding code (of widgets not being used) from the ext-all.js ? To ...

Arrays in JavaScript

While reading a book about JavaScript I stumbled across an example: var names = new Array("Paul","Catherine","Steve"); var ages = new Array(31,29,34); var concatArray; concatArray = names.concat(ages); My question is, why doesn't the variable concatArray need to be define as a new Array() in order to store the concatenated data for bo...