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jQuery datepicker causes page overflow

I am using the datepicker control from jQuery-ui 1.8. from-date is a text input. I am attaching a very simple datepicker: $('#from-date').datepicker(); This causes the page to overflow (vertical scrollbar), which I am trying to avoid. As soon as I click the from-date, the datepicker control appears, and the scrollbar dissapears. After...

My JavaScript Object is too big

I am creating a really big JavaScript object on page load. I am getting no error on firefox but on Internet Explorer I am getting an error saying: Stop running this script ? A script on this page is causing your web browser to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer might become unresponsive. Is there any size limit fo...

Jump to an anchor link on function complete in jQuery?

I have a simple slidetoggle function that opens onclick. What I'd like to do is jump the user down to the bottom of the page following the opened div. Basically, wait for the slidetoggle to complete - then imagine clicking my jump link to pull the viewport down. Here's my code. $('#clickme').click(function() { $('#form-area')...

Javascript caching, rails and apache passenger?

Alright all you little geniuses you.. please help. :D I have written a Capistrano recipe to remove the all.js cached javascript file and tell the server to restart, but it still doesn't work right. And inevitably I have to go, manually delete the all.js file and then manually restart apache. (touching restart.txt doesn't always work) A...

jQuery.keypad Performance Issues

I am working on a Kiosk Touch Screen application and using the JQuery.keypad plugin and noticing some major performance issues. If you click a number of buttons in rapid succession the CPU gets pegged, the button clicks don't keep up with the clicking and some button presses even get lost. On my dev machine this isn't as noticeable, but ...

Is it possible to align an element with the bottom of the window, yet make it scrollable, with CSS only?

I have a design going on where I want to align the bottom of an intro paragraph with the bottom of the window, yet make it scroll with the rest of the page. So when the page opens, the visitor sees only the first paragraph (and a full screen background image, which is what I want to focus their attention on), but as they scroll they see ...

What is the difference between the $get and $find functions?

What is the difference between the $get and $find functions in javascript? I'm guessing that these functions aren't really javascript-native things, so an additional question would be what are they native to? Clarification The web app I've seen this in uses jquery and ASP.NET AJAX. Perhaps that changes the meaning of these functions? ...

In SVG is there a way to grab a shape anywhere when it has fill = "none"

I have a series of shapes that I want the user to be able click anywhere on the shape to pick up as part of a drag and drop feature. All of these shapes are bounded by a rectangle. For example: <g id="shape1" fill="none" stroke="black"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100"/> <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="50"/> </g> <g id="s...

Javascript Image Transform? [scale and rotate]

I'm looking to build an image transform tool with Javascript. Something that utilizes handles around the image similar to Photoshop and allows the user to scale and rotate. I'm looking to make this work in IE 6 and up and Firefox 3+ and Safari 3+. Does anyone know of a library or tool that could help with this? I've seen a lot of t...

How to count JavaScript array objects?

When I have a JavaScript array like this: var member = { "mother": { "name" : "Mary", "age" : "48" }, "father": { "name" : "Bill", "age" : "50" }, "brother": { "name" : "Alex", "age" : "28" } } How to count objects in this array?!I mean how to get a counting resul...

Make user Control visible using Javascript

All I want to make user control visible on button click. I am getting object null typical error on following code. How do I make complete user Control visible or invisible using javascript? Dim ucAddNewChekcing As SubscriberSetupPages_UserControls_CheckingAccount ucAddNewChekcing = DirectCast(pnlTopLevel.Items().FindItemBy...

While Mouse press event. Prototype JS or Javascript

Hi, I would like to know if someone knows how to make a function repeat over and over while the mouse is press, I don't know how to make it work. I know in prototype you can take events like $('id').observe("click",function(event){}) $('id').observe("leave",function(event){}) $('id').observe("change",function(event){}) //etc... but ...

How to convert JavaScript literal into JSON array?!

Possible Duplicate: How to count JavaScript array objects? If it's not a JavaScript array, so how to convert it into JSON array? var member = { "mother": { "name" : "Mary", "age" : "48" }, "father": { "name" : "Bill", "age" : "50", "friend": { "co-worker" : "Jake" ...

Javascript eval limits

Is there a limit to javascript's eval, like in lenght? I'm trying to build an app where you can store JS code in the DB, which you can later load and eval in order to execute it, but i'm reaching a limit. First of all, the code has to all be in one line. Any multiline statements are not executed. Next, i'm reaching a limit in length (i ...

Common causes of slow performing jQuery and how to optimize the code?

Possible Duplicates: Javascript (jQuery) performance measurement and best practices (not load time) Good ways to improve jQuery selector performance? Hello, This might be a bit of a vague or general question, but I figure it might be able to serve as a good resource for other jQuery-ers. I'm interested in common causes o...

How to iterate through ASP .NET textboxes using javascript and calculate a value ?

i have a multiple textboxes in repeater and i will enter value in those textboxes at runtime. and i want sum of all value entered in those textboxes in one label.i want to do this thing using java script. so can u please help me. ...

Fade in an HTML element with raw javascript over 500 miliseconds.

Hello everybody, Once again I find myself stuck by something that I just don't understand. Any help would be appreciated. I'm working on a modal window, you click something and the background is masked and a modal window shows some content. I have a div with "display:none" and "opacity:0", and when the user triggers the modal, this div w...

Filtering data in an array.

Hi all, I have an array that has 30 date objects. The date objects are indexed in the array from the minimum date value to the maximum date value. What I would like to do is retrieve only 7 dates from the array. Out of the 7, the first one should be the minDate and the last should be the maxDate, with 5 dates in the middle. The 7 number...

Download a php-linked file in JavaScript

I have a big problem. I've made a simple Google Chrome plugin (based on the old Youtube Video Downloader) but I have some problems with it. The first problem is that it won't pop up a new save window on click, but opens a new page with the video in the default Chrome player. The second is, that when the user clicks right click-save, they...

Is it redundant to say: "JavaScript + AJAX"?

In a recent discussion I had, somebody told me that is incorrect to say that because Ajax is Javascript already. The contenxt: "How do I blablablabal in a webpage so it doesn't have to do a page refresh" My answer: "Use JavaScript + Ajax" EDIT Ok, it is, so... how should I say it? "Use AJAX"? or "Use Javascript"? ...