javascript

Is there a built-in jQuery function for encoding a string as HTML?

Is there a built-in jQuery function for encoding a string as HTML? I'm trying to take the text a user types into a text box and then put that text into a different area of the page. My plan was to take the .val() from the text box and supply that to the .html() of the <div> element. Perhaps there's a good jQuery plugin to help with th...

How to call JavaScript function from with in Flash application?

So in my AS file I want to call a function like public function JS(streamUri:String):void{ JavascriptCommand(streamUri) } to get my JS code running... How to do such thing (Example needed) ...

TinyMCE image upload & insert without a gallery

I've been searching for a plugin of TinyMCE that allows to upload and insert an image in the text, the problem I've found with many plugins is allowing to see and select from a gallery of images of the server, that's a functionality I don't need or want, just allow the user to select an image from his computer, upload and insert it. The...

jquery event namespace bubbling issue

Hi, I stumbled upon an issue with event namespacing while developing a jQuery plugin. here is the html <div class="parent"> <div class="child"> </div> </div> <a class="btn-a">trigger a</a> <a class="btn-b">trigger b</a> <a class="btn-c">trigger c</a> Here is the jQuery jQuery('#content div.child') .bind('a.a',function(...

Getting browser to make an AJAX call ASAP, while page is still loading

I'm looking for tips on how to get the browser to kick off an AJAX call as soon as possible into processing a web page, ideally before the page is fully downloaded. Here's my approximate motivation: I have a web page that takes, say, 5 seconds to load. It calls a web service that takes, say, 10 seconds to load. If loading the page and c...

What are these lines doing?

I'm starting learning javascript for a project, I've found a script that does a part of what I need to do, I'd like to know how it works, both for me and in case it needs to be modified. Originally it was used inside the page, now I've put it in a file on its own and does not work anymore, so I'm dividing it in parts, because I fail to ...

min-width not working even using hacks in ie7? (applied to a select)

Hi, i'm trying to get min-width to work on ie7, funny thing is it works correctly on ie6 using this script http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ but it doesn't work on ie7 even with the ie8 or ie9 scripts from the same site, any ideas on how to make this property work on a SELECT input? thanks in advance. ...

javascript inherance? with Private vars and methods too

Hy i need to inherent a class from another. Parent has private var "_data" and private method "_test" and public method "add" Now the child have a public method "add", that uses the private method from the parent "_test" and the private var "_data". How do i do this? var Parent = function(){ var _data = {}; var _test = functio...

Reading URL Anchor on IE

Hi, I've got a page full of links to another page with anchors on the end (like this: index.html#anchor). On the page they point to, I have a script that is supposed to read where the anchor points to in order to display something. On firefox it works perfectly, But I've noticed that IE seems to remove the #anchor from the end of the ur...

how can i look, wich jQuery function is binded to the element?

i found a site, which has some function that i need, in javascript. It's using jQuery, when i clicking tag, some function has been executed, so jQuery set a bind for tag.. but how i could found wich function is binded for it? Firebug didn't show it to me :( ...

RIA: Javascript Global application that include all actions of the site, preload external classes...

Hy, Im currently building a big global class that will preload external classes, caches data, caches classes, stores instanced classes and so on. Im finding some problems in the structure. Because of this i was looking for some inspiration from other codes, do you know some similar codes? ...

Alter Regular Expression to Return 2 Values Instead of 3 from userAgent String

I've taken a regular expression from jQuery to detect if a browser's engine is WebKit and gets it's version number, it returns 3 values extracted from the userAgent string: webkit/….…, webkit and ….… [“….…” being the version number]. I would like the regular expression to return just 2 values: webkit and ….…. I'm rubbish at regular exp...

Batch file search and replace using wildcards?

Batch file search and replace using wildcards I have a html (txt) file I am using as a template or sourcefile to create further html files.  Filename = pg_0001.htm and it contains a line of code thus: pg_0001.jpg I want to parse the pg_0001.htm sourcefile, increment and replace the jpeg string, like this:  "pg_0002.jpg", and then ...

Custom routes/paths/roads on Google Maps

Hey guys. I need to know if what I need is achievable. I need to be able to, using either V2 OR V3 (preferably 3), create paths which ignore buildings in a sense. I was trying to create even a kml file to draw out all of the paths myself, and then find some way to turn them on/off as needed. For example. The user wants to go from poi...

Detect if selected element is an anchor on right click

I'm writing a small firefox addon to grab urls and send them to a site. What I want to do is be able to right click on a link (but not have to actually highlight it) and be able to click send and the links href value is grabbed and sent. The bit I'm having trouble with is detecting if the selected element is an anchor and grabbing it's h...

Error logged in WebKit Web Inspector disappears because of page refresh

While hunting a Javascript error related to form submission. I saw an error appear in the Web Inspector then disappear immediately since the form submits and refreshes the page. Is there a console history or scrollback? How can I see what the error is? ...

MooTools events not firing in IE8

I have a Mootools asset created like so: // Create a new asset var asset = new Asset.image(path, { title: this.language.download, events: {click: this.download.bind(this, link)}, }); I have a method of a MooTools object defined as such: download: function(e) { // The path to download console.log('download: ' + e); },...

Insert text into a div from a poput form and rewrite the inserted text with javascript

So I read some related questions here before I asked, but can't find the answer to my problem. Hope some javascript master here can find this and bring the light to me. I created another button for nicEdit, a video button and wanted to insert some formatted text into the editor DIV (note: nicEdit has inline DIV, no iframe, no textarea)....

How to print a image file in printer

Hi, I write a simple program to print a image in JSF.... I have one image (sampleImage.png).. Already i connected my pc to printer.... Manually i open the image and select print option , then i got image from printer.... Now i want print image using javascript.... File name : imagePrint.jsp <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncod...

How to add a class to a cell in SlickGrid

Does anyone has an idea how could I add "myClass" class to some cell (for example, row 5, column 3) in a SlickGrid ? ...