javascript

Javascript incapable of getting element's max-height via element.style.maxHeight

I am making a simple accordion menu in javascript. I'd like to be able to set the compact and expanded heights for the elements via the css max-height and min-height values. For some reason, when I try to retrieve the min-height and max-height of the elements in javascript for animation purposes, I get an empty string rather than, for in...

JavaScript: How to get text from all descendents of an element, disregarding scripts?

My current project involves gathering text content from an element and all of its descendents, based on a provided selector. For example, when supplied the selector #content and run against this HTML: <div id="content"> <p>This is some text.</p> <script type="text/javascript"> var test = true; </script> <p>This is some more...

Skipping arguments in JavaScript

function my_func(a, b){ if(typeof(a) !== 'undefined'){ // do stuff } return b; } How can I call this function will only the second argument? In other words, I want a to be undefined. ...

iframe height adjustment

Is there a way to set the height of the iframe to be the same as the height of its source? I am trying to a) Avoid scrollbars and b) Avoid using fixed height in px Thank you. :) ...

Pick random property from a Javascript object

Suppose you have a Javascript object like {'cat':'meow','dog':'woof' ...} Is there a more concise way to pick a random property from the object than this long winded way I came up with: function pickRandomProperty(obj) { var prop, len = 0, randomPos, pos = 0; for (prop in obj) { if (obj.hasOwnProperty(prop)) { ...

FB Developer: Capture POST variables after multi-friend-selector

Using this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/820421/can-i-use-facebooks-fbfriend-selector-in-an-iframe I created a multi-friend selector in my IFRAME FB application. I want to know if the user selected any users for invite so I can reward him with extra points. In the developer WIKI I saw that [ids] is transferred to requested page vi...

redirect to a new page with post data in Javascript

Hi , I have a html form with the data by this post method 'form id='form1' name='form1' method='post' action='process.php'etc ' to a php page for processing into a mysql database . When the user has filled in the form BEFORE submitting it I have a button that the user can click to open up a new page to display a pdf of the data ent...

How to show/hide certain div when i have multiple div with same class name

I had multiple div with class name blueflip i want to toggle this class's div content when the div link_button is clicked. My Code : $(document).ready(function(){ $('.blueflip').hide(); $('.link_button').click(function() { $('.blueflip').toggle(400); return false; }); }); It works fine. But my problem is, my pa...

Problem using AJAX with a Java Applet

I currently have a Java Applet which contains a method callfromjs(). Javascript calls this method from the applet so that I don't have to deal with the clunky applet GUI, and then I can create the responses on the DOM easily from javascript. The problem is that the browser hangs while first loading the applet. To get around this, I fig...

Need some help with onClick and an if/else issue...

I have a menu with seven items. If you click the first item, div one shows. If you click any other item (2 through 7) div two shows. That's what I'm looking to do. I'm new at all this but am pretty sure it's an if/else function, such that if I click on <a id="1">, show the first div, else show the second div. I suppose I can do a hide/s...

onmouseover for element li doesn't work

i have the following simple code, but it doesn,t work <ul> <li id="one" onmouseover="this.style.background-color='white';"> <a href="#">home</a> </li> </ul> could you tell me why. thanks edit: and how can i also change the color of a tag, onmouseover of li ...

Identifying dynamically generated elements

In the following code, <script> function val() { //get alltextarea to validate } $(document).ready(function() { var html= '<form>' html += '<textarea name="test" id="test"'; html += '<textarea name="test1" id="test1"'; html += 'form'; $('#get_div').append(); }); </script> <div id= "get_div"></div> <input type="button" ...

[jquery] Different function for same class on 'click' / 'dblclick'

Hello, This are my two functions, on single click it works fine, but on dblclick both functions execute, any idea? I tried using live instead of delegate but still both functions execute on dblclick // Change Status on click $(".todoBox").delegate("li", "click", function() { var id = $(this).attr("id"); $.ajax({ ...

Javascript Submit

Hi I have the following script in my form function pdf() { var frm = document.getElementById("form1"); frm.action = "http://www.abbysoft.co.uk/index.php"; frm.target="_blank" frm.submit() } this is called from the following in my form <input class="buttn" type="button" value="Test" onclick="pdf()" The code work up to the f...

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) - am I missing something here?

I was reading about CORS (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTTP_access_control) and I think the implementation is both simple and effective. However, unless I'm missing something, I think there's a big part missing from the spec. As I understand, it's the foreign site that decides, based on the origin of the request (and optionally incl...

Javascript function programming — receiving elaborate parameters

I'm writing a Javascript function that would manipulate an array written on-the-fly and sent as a parameter. The function is written as follows: function returnJourney(animation,clean){ var properties = {}; // loads of other inane stuff for(i in animation[0]) properties[animation[0][i]] = animation[0].i; // heaps more i...

window.focus(), self.focus() not working in firefox

Hi all i am developing a chat application ... i have multiple chat windows ... i want to know which windw contain new message ... i have the following code .. function getCount() { $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: baseUrl + '/Chat/count', data: "chat_id=" + document.ajax.chat_id.value, success: function(msg){ ...

remove plugins in ext javascript form via code?

Hi, i have the following form item { fieldLabel:'Username' ,id:"username" ,name:'username' ,allowBlank:false ,plugins:[Ext.ux.plugins.RemoteValidator] ,rvOptions: { url:'/registration/member/valid-username' } is it possible to remove plugins later via code? ...

Form inside a hidden div has no values on post

I have a html form that posts to a new page on submit. If required a user can click a button to make a small table visible in a div box. this adds more text input fields to my form. The problem is, regardless of the div box being hidden or visible none of the additional fields data is sent when the form is posted . the div box code ...

Populating form fields with comma seperated strings in unordered list onclick with jQuery/Javascript

Hi, I have an address lookup system which returns addresses in an unordered list like so: <p>Please select your address from the list below</p> <div id="selectAddress"> <ul> <li>HNO 412,addressLine2,addressLine8</li> <li>HNO 413,addressLine2,addressLine8</li> <li>HNO 414,addressLine2,addressLine8</li> </...