jquery-selectors

JQuery invert table selection

I have page part like this <div id="inbox"> <h1>Headline</h1> <p>First paragraph</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>table stuff</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Second paragraph</p> </div> I want to assign a handler to everything within the #inbox div that is not a part (a child) of the table. I tr...

jQuery scrollTop not working in chrome but working in Firefox

I have used a scrollTop function in jquery for navigating to top. But strangely 'The smooth animated scroll' stopped working in safari and chrome(scrolling without smooth animation) after I made some changes. But it is working smoothly in Firefox. What could be wrong? Here is the jquery function i used, jQuery $('a#gotop').click(functi...

Can jQuery select elements with IDs that start similarly?

I have multiple comment ids I want to reset to a default value. Ex: <a id="comments_inner_toggle_45">example 1</a> <a id="comments_inner_toggle_608">example 2</a> <a id="comments_inner_toggle_28">example 3</a> ... How can I write the correct tag in jQuery to select every tag with an id of "comments_inner_toggle_" and perform some ope...

jquery mouseover/mouseout

In the following code once the mouse out is done the mouse over again does not work ,what is the work around for this <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> /* div { background:#def3ca; margin:3px; width:80px; display:none; float:left; text-align:center; }*/ </style> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.j...

jQuery - Having a problem with $(this).find(".event_recur").html()

Hello, I am trying get the html within .event_recur. $(".entry").each(function(){ alert($(this).find(".event_recur").html()); }); <div class="entry"> <p class="event_title">June 21st Event - eat</p> <p class="event_start_date">1277160289</p> <p class="event_end_date">1277505889</p> <p class="event_body"><p>June 21-25th </p></p> <p ...

jQuery selectors - parental problems

Hi there, I have an emote selector that opens up when a user clicks an entry in a diary. The way I've worked it is that the emote selector panel lives hidden at the top of the page. When a user clicks on the 'emote control' associated with an entry, I use JavaScript to grab the HTML of the emote selector panel from the top of the page...

Jquery : How to load a function after some interval or after end of another function or event

I need to run a function 'setNotifications()' after a timed delay or at the end of completion of the previous animation('#topannounce' animation).But jQuery is not running the 'setNotifications()'after the animation. What should I do? or is there a better way to run the function?Plz hlp.Thanx. Here is the jQuery I have. $('a#resetbtn')...

jQuery - Multiple selectors & multiple values in ONE call

Hi, I was wondering whether there's a way of using multiple selectors in jQuery and setting different values for them IN ONE CALL. E.g.: $(selector1, selector2, selector3, ...).css({left:[532, 112, 453, ...]}); Thanks in advance Edited: Just to be clear you can only call .css once. Is it possible? Edited again to clarify: I'm aski...

jQuery text attribute selector

I am trying to use the text attribute as a selector, but I can't quite grasp the behaviour, would really appreciate if someone could explain. For example given <span class="span_class"><a class="a_class">text</a></span>, $('a.a_class').text() gives "text" as expected. However $('a.a_class[text]') wouldn't match any elements, and neither ...

Using different versions of jQuery on the same page

Users of my service includes a JS in their pages that I provide. I am hosting the script they are including. My script does some manipulation on their content. I am sick of writing my own DOM manipulators/selectors and wasting hours for jobs that can be done with 1 line of code if I can use jQuery. Some of the users of my service alread...

JQuery Using Closest("element.class")

I am trying to find the closest tr that also matches a specific class name. The selector returns no matches. What am I not understanding? For example: <table> <tbody class="category" id="cat-1"> <tr class="category-head"> <th>Category 1</th> </tr> <tr class="category-item"> <th>Item 1</th> </tr> <tr> <td>This is a desc...

In jQuery, is $('li.item-ii').find('li') the same as $('li.item-ii li')?

In the example of jQuery's find() (the doc is at http://api.jquery.com/find/) I wonder why we need it, because, is $('li.item-ii').find('li') the same as $('li.item-ii li') essentially, all the <li> elements inside the <li> element that has the class item-ii Similarly $('#id1').find(".class1 #id2") is the same as $('#id1 .cl...

jQuery element variable doesn't seem to be accessible?

So I get a set of form elements that I want to extract the values from, by using var inputs = $("input.row_2"); inputs[0].val() When I run this, I get told that val is not a valid method. What am I doing wrong? Should be an easy one.. Thanks! ...

Is it possible to use .data() as a search criteria?

I have a pretty complex chat application going on, and there are multiple chat panes, chat entries, chat submits, etc. going on in the same window. At first I was going to do something like.... <input type="text" class="chattext" id="chattext-42"> <input type="text" class="chattext" id="chattext-93"> <input type="button" class="chatsubm...

stored context in a JQuery variable does not work

The following works fine: $(function() { EnableDisableButtons(); $('#TextBox1').keyup(function() { EnableDisableButtons(); }); }); function EnableDisableButtons() { var len = $('#TextBox1').val().length; if (len == 0) { $("#Button1").attr("disabled", "disabled"...

Really, really simple jQuery that doesn't work :(

Seriously. The simplest jQuery code ever simply isn't working. <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $('.codeswitcher').click(function() { alert("You clicked it"); }); }); </script> And then, in my page structure, I have this: <div class="codeswitcher"> <img src="http://mysite.com/images/codeswitch...

JQuery Selector copy text from div and place in span

Hello, I need some JQuery selector help... My HTML is <div id="Manager"><span>LastName, FirstName (UK)</span></div> <span id=ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_g_4118aa1d_2690_4da8_b2b2_dc1943e73968_LineManager/> I need to select the text from the div Manager and copy that into the span which contains the text LineManager. I have the selecto...

Get element by title jQuery

Hi, I have searched but cannot find the jQuery selector that gets an element by a title. So I would be trying to get a handle on the dropdown with title =='cars' Eg: <select title='cars'> <option value="volvo">Volvo</option> <option value="saab">Saab</option> <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option> <option value="audi">Audi...

.each() not working in IE

I want to get all labels inside a div, the blow piece of code works in Firefox and not working IE. Any idea. Thanks in advance. <div id='discounts'> <label id="discount1"> discount 1</label> <label id="discount2"> discount 2 </label> <input type="text" id="discountmisc" value="" /> </div> var selectLabels = { getLabels:...

JQuery - Select all but last list (from multiple lists.)

Hi, I'm wondering if this is the most elegant and efficient way of doing this? I have multiple 'tag' lists, and through CSS, I want the tags to appear inline (display: inline) and be comma-separated. The challenge that I'm having is to append commas to all but the last list item in each ul.tagList: <ul class="outerList"> <li> ...