URL: http://hartford.uconn.edu/director/academic_plan.html The URL links to an an HTML page that uses 'object' to display PDF document. Which is blocking the jQuery drop down menu. I have tried using CSS z-index property with positioning specified. Also tried setting wmode="transparent" / wmode="opaque" / and other variations but nothi...
I have a page with several galleries including accordions and sliders. The problem is that the page takes forever to load. Is there a way of wrapping an image in a bit of code or applying a class to it to force it to load only after everything else is loaded? ...
I've been fiddling with WebGL lately, and have gotten a Collada reader working. Problem is it's pretty slow (Collada is a very verbose format), so I'm going to start converting files to a easier to use format (probably JSON). Thing is, I already have the code to parse the file in Javascript, so I may as well use it as my exporter too! Th...
I have a some draggables in a list of droppables (1 draggable per droppable li). When I move a draggable from one droppable to another free droppable, I want to diable the receiving droppable, and enable the droppable it is leaving from. In firebug the droppable class gets removed – but the functionality of the droppable remains. I...
I have a Javascript object that I want to pass in more parameters, but the documentation is non-existant. My only option seems to be to reverse engineer the Javascript object to see what parameters and values I can pass in. For example, I want to see if there is a "zoom" parameter for the object and what values I can pass into the "mapT...
Hi all, I have a jQuery dialog with the following as a parameter: close: function(event, ui){ $('body').css('overflow','auto'); }, Now this behavior works when the user hits Esc (because closeOnEscape remains true). But I've noticed that when I hit the "X" button and the dialog closes, the close event isn't called? The same app...
I have a page which displays ~300 pages worth of tabular data. Firefox, Chrome, Safari all work fine but IE 7, 8, and 8 Compatibility view all wretch. It lags for several seconds when I try to scroll or press the page up/page down button. Pagination, smaller data sets, and other usability suggestions will not work for this page. Assu...
I see examples where JavaScript code including jQuery and jslint use the notation below: (function(){ // do something })(); instead of: // do something I first thought this is just for local scoping, i.e. creating local variables for the code block without polluting global namespace. But I've seen instances without any local vari...
I have some tabs which have been created using Javascript and Mootools, my client wants the 'next button' at the bottom of the page to be disabled, until the tabs have been read(clicked). The page is dynamic (created with PHP and MySQL) and there could be two tabs or three, depending on the set-up. I am struggling today to think of the b...
Hi, I am using a forever frame (COMET streaming technique) and in IE6 whenever a user clicks on a link (to even just basic JavaScript method) the connection is immediately dropped and has to be manually refreshed. Has anyone come across a similar issue and / or know how to address it? ...
I got HTML element contains this: <!--Product Style--> <div style="float: right; padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 5px;"> P6C245RO </div> <div style="text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 5px;"> Style </div> <div style="clear: both; border-top: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); padding-top: 4...
I'm creating a tree control and I'm attempting to use a parent element as a template for its children. To this end I'm using the element.cloneNode(true) method to deep clone the parent element. However when I insert the cloned element into the DOM it is missing certain inner elements despite having an outerHTML value identical to its p...
Hi I was wondering what the best and easiest way was to ensure that the value a user enters into an input box is numeric in a web page? either notify them they are not allowed to when they edit it or not allow them to enter in non numeric values to begin with. any ideas? thanks ...
Anyone knows a way to draw areas in a image, based on points, like draw areas in google maps? Dynamically with javascript. Editing: what I will do is put a map image on the page and draw an area on the top of a house, etc... Thanks. ...
Hi, I have a web page, normal no fuzz or weird stuff. And I want to trap that page inside an html frame when a user clicks on a given link. The thing is i don't want to reload the page. Some kind of dynamic DOM trickery seems the way to go, but to no avail in my tests. If anyone has any ideas it would be great! Thanks ...
I have a url that returns XML coordinates in the below format. I want to put a Google map on my page and feed it these push pin coordinates. Is there a nice and quick way to do this via Javascript or jQuery? <messageList> <totalCount>1</totalCount> − <message> <esn>0-7396996</esn> <esnName>JOHN</esnName> <messageType>TEST</messageType> ...
Is there a way to map an event such as a click-event on this element <div>Just normal text</div> to the position in the contained text ( "You just clicked the 6th character", when hitting the 'n' )? ...
Is there a way I can maximize a currently minimized window from Javascript? Here's my situation: I have a series of links that all target the same external window (e.g. "MyNewWindow"). When I click a link, a new window pops up. If I click another link, the page pops up in the same window as expected. If I minimize the "MyNewWindow" ...
I'm looking to select columns 2-4 on the 2nd row in a table. Does jquery have any sort of "and" function in their selectors? Or would I have to do something like this? $('#id tr:eq(1)').find('td:lt(5)').find('td:gt(1)') ...
I need to stop all the javascript running on the page, but I have a limitation: I cannot control the tags content, I am editing the page after it's being loaded. Also, I need to remove all the variables defined by the old script that was running and stop all the intervals. The solution I thought to stop intervals: for(var i=0,s=setI...