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Message on loading

This is a crossbrowser window.onload script, I want to add a message, when the page loads (<div id="message">Loading, please wait</div>), and it must disappear when page finished loading. How can I do that? Please help. function init() { if (arguments.callee.done) return; arguments.callee.done = true; }; if (document.addEventLi...

Saving a file with Javascript in S60v3 mobile browser

I'm busy experimenting with TiddlyWiki and trying to get it to run on my Nokia E51, which uses S60v3. The browser is based on webkit, which should mean that I'd be able to get it to work, but no luck so far. Does anyone have any experience with saving files locally on this platform? ...

Lost chronology using window.location.href

Hi, I have a problem with a javascript set of functions that I made. This functions walk the entire Html page and then add the onclick event to every anchor it finds. It do some check on the anchor href and redirect to it (using window.location.href) My problem is that the cronology don't work properly this way, and the :visited sele...

Application developers wanting to start web development?

So what's your best advice for someone who knows application side development (C++/C#) and wants to start developing web applications and websites? What languages should i start with? (php/javascript/other) What kind of tips do you have for me? ...

Javascript / jQuery - Parse returned 'data' as HTML for further selecting?

Hi, a webservice returns some data to me. The data is actually just raw HTML (so no XML header, or tags around it, but just a piece of html). <div class="Workorders"> <div id="woo_9142" class="Workorder"> <span class="Workorder">S1005</span> <span class="Pn">30-2</span> <span class="Description">Cooling Fa...

Date Object in javascript

Hi All, As we all know Javascript is a client side language , means code runs on client side and not on server side.Now what I want to know is that then how come getDate() retrives the server side value. var myDate = new Date(); alert(myDate.getDate());//return current date. ...

How to animate a Raphael object along a path?

The object could be simple, a rect or circle. But the path should be a bezier curve. Please provide javascript/Raphael code if not too much trouble. It will be nice if there is trailing effect of the moving object during annimation. Thanks, ...

How do you do page performance tests?

I know everyone who reads the question will think "Firebug!" right away. Maybe some will think "YSlow!" and "Google Page Speed!" While I really like these tools, I'm more concerned with how the quickly the page will render in IE 6/7/8. All of the above tools require Firefox. That's all fine and you can definitely test the underlying spe...

Adding a button to JWplayer control bar to control javascript

Hi We feed JWplayer with an external playlist, and have an external button to shuffle this play list. I would like to move this button into the JWplayer control bar itself. I'm not a developer, I'm a designer - but, thanks to a link found on the JWplayer support forum I have been able to add a custom button to the control bar - via t...

Problem uploading multiple files

Here's the code I'm using. I can't seem to see where the problem is - its meant to upload multiple files at out ones. The funny thing is that some times it uploads just one file, and then won't upload anything. Can someone help me look into it please.. <pre><code> <?php /*** the upload directory ***/ $upload_dir= './uploads'; /*** nu...

Select All Checkboxes By ID/Class

I'm really bad at Javascript and I'm struggling to get my head round it. What I'm trying to do is get something to select all checkboxes. However everything I have found tries to do it by name, I want to do it by ID or class. Select all by name is just inpractical isn't it? ...

How can I pass variable parameters into a Javascript Function using Excel VBA

Hi, I'm not sure if I have the correct terms above, but what I'm trying to do is call a Javascript function passing parameters into it from an Excel File, so the function will run and list the items in the next textbox, allowing me to choose the correct entry in that textbox, which then chooses the final box. Here is the code that I hav...

Form Tricks

Basically two parts of the question. How to put explanatory text inside textboxes in a form (like writing e-mail in the text area of a text box in a form) with styles (i.e. greyed out so that meant to suggest) like on facebook homepage. How to put cursor focus on a particular form-field as soon as the page loads (like google sign-in or...

javascript intellisense in VS2008 - external WCF service

I have looked up the following article before making this post but my scenario is a little different http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587350/how-do-i-get-intellisense-for-wcf-ajax-services I also have the patch applied to VS2008 and have jquery intellisense working. In my solution, the WCF service is actually not inside the ASP.NET ...

Overlay login/register on action in jQuery

How do I bring up an absolute div on an "action" in jQuery? What I want is similar to reddit or digg, when you try to vote without logging in, it will prompt you to log in or register. Thanks. ...

Does IE 7 and 8 use Internet explorer event model?

I am reading "Javascript The Definitive Guide". In this book, Events and Event handling, there are three event-handling models, the original event model, the standard event model and Internet explorer event model. It says upto IE6 it uses Internet explorer event model. I am wondering if IE7 and 8 still uses it. Or does it use the stand...

How to suppress the display of repeating values in html tables which can be sorted?

I have a table in HTML which I am generating from XML/XSL and I want it to suppress repeating values. However, I also want to sort it on the fly by clicking the titles. Without a round trip to the server I need to suppress different values after each sort. Is there a good javascript/css solution. For example Data Date Person Score ...

Enabling HTML tags in this JS Code

I use this code for creating Summary of the Blog Posts at my blog Gadgetcage.com, In this JS code HTML tags are disabled by the author, I would like to remove that disabling HTML tag function in this Code. Please help me!! function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){ if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1) { var s = strx.split("<"); for(var...

Getting value from input box in html in external Javascript

I have an HTML page and and external JavaScript file. How do I access the value of an input tag from the HTML page in JavaScript? My HTML is as follows: <form name="formxml"> <input type="text" name="xmlname"/> <input type="submit" value="Click me please" onclick="loadxml()"/> </form> In the Javascript file, I was trying: var name =...

javascript/jquery extract Html-text from HTML table contains input tags

Hello, I have big problem i want to extract text from html table that contains inputs, raw text, href, and display in new window clean html table with only text SAMPLE INPUT <TABLE id="test"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD>TEXT 1</TD> <TD><a href="/questions">TEXT 2</a></TD> <TD><input type="text" value="TEXT 3" ></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> ma...