javascript

TinyMCE security question: How do you prevent malicious input?

How do you prevent malicious input in WYSIWYG editors like TinyMCE? I have a system with users who are not "tech savvy" (so no WMD) and need a rich text editor that posts its content into a database. I'm worried about scripting attacks and malicious input code. ...

simple javascript regex question

How can I match the following pattern? "anything123.anythingelse" Alphanum of any length, with exactly 1 "." in the middle, and then alphanum of any length? Thanks. ...

How can I append and execute a script inside an iframe in a cross browser way (specifically IE!)?

Background: I need to load ad scripts after the DOM has loaded. Because many of the scripts use document.write() and other potentially bad functions to run after the DOM has loaded, I want to load the scripts inside an iframe. So when the ad needs to be shown, an event is triggered which does the following: var iframe = documen...

How to create Share Button to Hi5

Everyone else social networks have a simple method to share anything content. I need create a share button using php/javascript. Can someone help me? ...

JavaScript Regex: Complicated input validation

I'm trying to construct a regex to screen valid part and/or serial numbers in combination, with ranges. A valid part number is a two alpha, three digit pattern or /[A-z]{2}\d{3}/ i.e. aa123 or ZZ443 etc... A valid serial number is a five digit pattern, or /\d{5}/ 13245 or 31234 and so on. That part isn't the problem. I want c...

Dual AJAX Requests at different times

Alright, I'm trying to make an AJAX Chat system that polls the chat database every 400ms. That part is working, the part of which isn't is the Active User List. When I try to combine the two requests, the first two requests are made, then the whole thing snowballs and the usually timed (12 second) Active User List request starts updating...

Fill CSS box with text from MySQL till there is no overflow, scrollbar, or hidden text

I want to fill a CSS box with text till there is no overflow or scrollbar. I fetch text from MySQL. The user clicks a button and the next bit of text that can fit will fill the box. The only way I've figured to do this is by parsing through the text and counting characters and newlines, etc and calculating whether it will fit in the b...

Evaluating php generated javascript "inline"?

If you look at the source of this page http://kingston.talking-newspapers.co.uk/ you will see a large amount of inline javascript near the top. I don't really want all this extra stuff floating around in my page source, I'd much rather get it off into a script tag, and then I can minify it and all sorts. If I call it as a php file, thi...

JavaScript: Text "submit" link?

I have the the following code and want to use a hyper link to submit my form. <form name="form_signup" id="form_signup" method="post" action="/" enctype="multipart/form-data"> ... <input type="submit" value="Go to Step 2" name="completed" /> or <a onclick="javascript:this.form.submit();">Proceed without uploading</a></span> </form> Ho...

Attention JavaScript gurus: Need a hand with setInterval()

I am trying to make a non interactive display for a real estate shop window. It's been a while since I've played with setInterval(). The first time my script steps through, it is fine. But when it tries to get the next property via getNextProperty(), it starts to go haywire. If you have Firebug, or an equivalent output of console.log()...

What language is this?

I thought this was Javascript... but parser is giving me trouble. Any ideas? for (;;); {"error":0,"errorSummary":"","errorDescription":"","errorIsWarning":false,"silentError":0,"payload":{"collections": [{"name":"bcm","type":"flp","filter":"flp_662923563701","value":"662923563701","editable":true,"deletable":true,"members": ["1319651388...

get value from css using document.getElementById().style.height javascript

Hi, Please offer insight into this mystery. I am trying to get the height value from a div box by var high = document.getElementById("hintdiv").style.height; alert(high); I can get this value just fine if the attribute is contained within the div tag, but it returns a blank value if the attribute is defined in the css section. T...

Can I use the browser's word-wrapping from JavaScript?

I have some text in a div. It can be any Unicode text under the sun, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Now, I need to take this text and word-wrap it in JavaScript in some efficient but correct manner. Then I need to insert a ">" at the start of every line, and put the resulting text into a textarea. Browsers have an implementati...

Job scheduler UI widget?

Does anyone know of a good Job scheduler UI widget? The ideal component would be a Javascript widget (hopefully JQuery) that allows a user to select a frequency which is converted to a cron expression. Anything good out there? ...

redirection follow by post

hi, just wonder how those air ticket booking website redirect the user to the airline booking website and then fill up(i suppose doing POST) the required information so that the users will land on the booking page with origin/destination/date selected? Is the technique used is to open up new browser window and do a ajax POST from there...

Choosing between YUI Charts or Google Visualization API

Hello , I'm a bit stuck with which charting library I will use in my project. Im stuck with this two (but also open for other suggestions) For YUI Charts : Pro : - Very robust and configurable Cons : - Uses flash 9 >, which might potentially be inaccessible for users without up to date flash version - Does not support export to i...

Data mining google's web search results?

Currently, i have a google web search. If a user searches starbucks, I would only want to retrieve the company or product information, not some other weird links like blog pages, using javascript, is it possible to do so? if yes, how am i able to do it? Kind of a newbie in the data mining part..thanks! Added my coding for download for c...

Problem using form builder & DOM manipulation in Rails with multiple levels of nested partials

I'm having a problem using nested partials with dynamic form builder code (from the "complex form example" code on github) in Rails. I have my top level view "new" (where I attempt to generate the template): <% form_for (@transaction_group) do |txngroup_form| %> <%= txngroup_form.error_messages %> <% content_for :jstemplates do -%> <%= ...

disable Opera function key in javascript

I'm writing javascript code for a web emulator containing function keys. The user is able to press keyboard function keys to process something in the emulator, I used stopPropagation and preventDefault javascript function to stop/cancel browsers invoking their function key shortcut (e.g. F1 will invoke Firefox to open its help page) and ...

Station ID - more than IP

Hello I am working on internal PHP application where users login only from our network (we are on dedicated IP and application is checking $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and if is match our IP go thru if not - Bye However how I can identify from which station user is login ? Using cookie not gonna work - those are windows station working unde...