jquery-selectors

Jquery $.each selector

Hi, I would like to know what $.each() stands for in jquery, What is it selecting? Is there an equivalent in prototype? Thanks ...

how to select th with no colspan in IE

I am using this code to get all the tableheads which do not have colspan. It only works in firefox and chrome, but not in IE. What is the equivalent code for IE? thanks. $tableHeaders = $("thead th:not([colspan])", table); ...

simplify jquery parents and childrens

I have to get a far parent's child's child's attribute href... now i can get that using this long statement var uid = $(this).parents(':eq(7)').children( ).find('.p_cell') .children(':eq(0)').children(':eq(0)').attr('href'); please any string using '>' and ' : ' that can simplify the statement thanks Pradyut India ...

jquery click event on <tr> elements with in a table and getting <td> element values

I have the following HTML in a JSP file: <div class="custList"> <table class="dataGrid"> <c:forEach var="cust" items="${custList}"> <tr> <td>${cust.number}</td> <td>${cust.description}</td> <td>${cust.type}</td> <td>${cust.status}</td> </tr> </c:forEach> </...

How can I do sub selects on already selected element?

Markup: <div class="foo"> <img src="loading.gif" class="loading" style="display: none;" /> </div> Js: $("div[class='foo']").click(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); $(this).hide(); $(/* somehow select the loading img of exactly this div with class foo (not others) */).show(); }); ...

jQuery live handler but for each()?

I know that live() can be used to support event handlers for current AND "added later" DOM elements. I wonder how to do the same thing with each()? Like if I have $('.something_or_other').each() but then another DOM element with class="something_or_other" gets added? How can I set it up to automatically apply the each iteration to this...

How do I select the next "n" elements starting from the current element in jQuery?

How do I select the next "n" elements starting from the current element? What I mean is... $(this).attr(...); I want to do this "n" times. For the example of n=4: $(this).attr(...); $(this).next().attr(...); $(this).next().next().attr(...); $(this).next().next().next().attr(...); or perhaps do it in a loop: for (i = 0; i < n; i+...

How come my Raphael.js circle object is not getting its 'attr' changes animated & not getting the jQuery HandlerOut event object applied to it?

I have created a #logo DIV that consists of a smaller #circle DIV & h1. The #circle acts as the DIV/canvas that my Raphael.js object, a circle, is rendered in. My goal was to make it so when a user hovers over the #logo DIV the Raphael.js circle and h1 will get animated but I ran into some problems. For some reason my Raphael.js circle...

jquery: name change of cloned object not working in IE?

Via jQuery I'm dynamically cloning an input checkbox object, and then I'm changing its name using this instruction: row.find('[name="ACCCHB_CDARM"]').attr("name",id); ACCCHB_CDARM is the attribute's name of object I'm cloning. There's no problem using FireFox, but in IE it doesn't change the original value! Is this code correct? Th...

Why is the CSS class and jQuery getting stuck when moving the cursor quickly over targeted selector when using .hover(), .addClass() & .removeClass()?

I created an h1 element that gets a class added to it and removed from it with a duration of 300ms when the mouse hovers over and off of it's containing DIV #logo using jQuery's .hover() method in concert with jQuery UI's .addClass() and .removeClass() methods. It works splendidly but only when the user hovers over #logo and stops to w...

jQuery .Last Function Return Boolean

Ok so heres whats going on: Whenever I click on an image nested in an unordered list, it moves to a different part on the page. But when it reaches the last li, I want it not to move. I am trying to find it out if there is anyway that the .last() function can return a boolean back? Thanks, Rohan ...

jQuery selectors not working or unable to bind events

I have several dynamically created links and forms on one page named with IDs sub_comment_form_[id] and sub_add_comment_[id], respectively. I'm trying to: Hide all forms when the page loads Bind a click event to the link directly above the form to hide/show the form. I'm not sure if there is a problem with my selectors, or if jQuer...

How can I pass a variable and a string into the same jQuery selector?

I have the following: var x = '.'+this.id; and this does not work: $(x,'#thumb').show(); but this does: $(x).show(); and obviously so does this: $('#thumb').show(); What am I missing? Should I be doing something else in general to pass variables (even on their own) through jQuery? ...

Get all options in a select menu

How do I get all the options (text,not the value) of a select menu by by specifying its id ...

How to loop through all inputs inside a tr and set attribute(id and name) with

How to loop through all inputs inside a tr and set attribute(id and name) with JQuery ...

Insert html using jquery .html()

I want to insert a large chunk of html into a pre-existing <td>. I am using this method: $("td#content").html(LOTS_OF_HTML_CODE_HERE); But it doesn't work. I am a noob, there are a lot of quotes and ' within the HTML chunk that seems to be breaking it. What is the correct method for doing this? ...

jQuery class selector and 'this' reference

Here is a problem: i need to select elements on page by css class, and then set their width = parentElement.width - 1. So code looks like this: $j('.innerCellElement').width(this.parentElement.clientWidth - 1); When i say this i mean current element of selector. However, is not interpreted how i want. I can do loops here but i want to kn...

Embed html into an existing div

When the html is returned from django views <script> //The following is in the ready function $("#data").html("{{dict.html}}"); </script> <div id="data" name="data" style="display:block;"></div> The following html is displayed on the screen.How to embed this html into data div <ul ><li ><a ><ins> </ins>Ses</a><ul...

Get the selected text and put it in variable

I have the following code which loads a xml file to populate a dropdown. I would like to put the selected options text into a variable. I already got the value of the selection but not the text. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http:...

How to select class names with spaces and using wild card

In the below html snippet I am trying to create a JQuery Expression to select all a tags with class zz1_TopNavigationMenu_1 Napa1-topnav zz1_TopNavigationMenu_*" I am confused about constructing the select syntax that contains spaces in the class name. I also want a wild card at the end which is depicted above by the '*' char at the ...