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textbox character countdown asp.net

i have many textboxes on a form and all textboxes require to have a character limit / character countdown (50 character left of 150), what is the best way to achieve this and can anyone please provide code to implement. Much Grateful Thanks ...

jQuery hover parent affect child

Hello I am curious to know, how you target a child, when hover on a parent? How I would do in CSS: parent:hover child { background-color: #FFFFFF; } How do you do this in jQuery? ".medarbejdere .info span.kontaktinfo" is my Parent. I would like $(this) to be my child. var navDuration = 150; //time in miliseconds var forstoer = "1...

How to set a native object property

ok so im creating a jquery plugin that will allow me to use the new html5 Audio interface and im trying to create an option that is an object that you will be able to set the various listeners but i dont seem to be able to set those options to the listener property of the Audio object. ok so ive got as far as the plugin being able to ru...

jQuery Optimizations

I've just come to the end of a large development project. We were on a tight timeline, so a lot of optimization was "deferred". Now that we met our deadline, we're going back and trying to optimize things. My questions is this: What are some of the most important things you look for when optimizing jQuery web sites. Alternately I'd love...

Execute function by pressing "return" using jQuery?

Hi, i have two text inputs like the following, i don't want to use <form> , so i want when people press "return" BUTTON after filling the inputs, a function called "doit()" should be executed. <script> function doit(){ alert("you submitted the info"); ..........ajax code........ } </script> <input type="text" id="email" /> <input type=...

How does jquery display an image received from an ajax request?

I have this working great, but I'd like a deeper understanding of what is actually going on behind the scenes. I am using Jquery's Ajax method to pull 5 blog posts (returning only the title and first photo). A PHP script grabs the blog posts' title and first photo and sticks it in an array and sends it back to my browser as JSON. Upon ...

jQuery - Problem with executing animation of two separate objects, one after another

Hello I have problem to put together animations of two separate objects to second one start when first one ends. I tried to use callback but it seems that i make some syntax misteakes which crash jQuery or cause some unexpected behaviour. It seems that i'm stuck so I'd like to ask You for best way to put these animations together to act ...

Jquery passing an HTML element into a function

I have an HTML form where I am going to copy values from a series of input fields to some spans/headings as the user populates the input fields. I am able to get this working using the following code: $('#source').keyup(function(){ if($("#source").val().length == 0){ $("#destinationTitle").text('Sample Title'); }else{ ...

click() not behaving like user click

I have searched for a solution to this for the last several hours but to no avail. When I click on a button that has a return false in OnClientClick, no postback occurs to the server. When I use jquery to trigger the click function of the button, OnClientClick fires first, but regardless of the return value, a postback occurs. Here's a s...

How to delete a file with javascript?

Did not have luck with these examples: Javascript File remove Javascript FSO DeleteFile Method Deleting a File There are no special permissions on the file. Is there a way to do this in JQuery? The requirement is - a certain file must be deleted from the web directory when another page is loaded. There is no security issue as this ...

IE7 issue w/ jQuery site feature

I'm not entirely sure what's breaking here on this page: http://grandoaks.org/floor.html but it seems to only be broken in IE7 (IE8, FF3, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Camino all worked). When you mouseover the names of the suites, it should show a description by removing an 'active' class and applying it to the corresponding div, with the sty...

Using $.post for simple ajax test, what am I missing?

Playing with jquery for the first time, and I'm trying to get a simple AJAX set up working so I can better understand how things work. Unfortunately, I don't know a whole lot. Here's the HTML with the script: <html> <head> <title>AJAX attempt with jQuery</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="t...

Why is IE8 rendering superfish menu wrong?

I am useing the superfish jquery plugin If you view the superfish menu here: clicky the drop-downs show correctly (above the main content) in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE6, IE7 But for some reason they fall behind the main content in IE8. I already set the z-index for the superfish menu which IE7 wasnt working right until I did so, bu...

Validating alphabetic only string in javascript

How can I quickly validate if a string is alphabetic only, e.g var str = "!"; alert(isLetter(str)); // false var str = "a"; alert(isLetter(str)); // true Edit : I would like to add parenthesis i.e () to an exception, so var str = "("; or var str = ")"; should also return true. ...

What happened to Dojo in 2008?

Many of you have seen this graph of Google Trends of popular AJAX frameworks (Dojo, jQuery, YUI). The graph seems to make it clear that interest in Dojo collapsed in the second quarter of 2008, falling by 80%; jQuery picked up the slack and ultimately grew to more than triple the size of Dojo. Why? What happened in Q2 2008 that demoli...

Where can I find a jQuery color animation plugin?

I need an up-to-date jQuery color animation plugin that works in IE 8. I tried using the one at http://plugins.jquery.com/project/color but it causes errors like "Invalid property value." in the following line of code from color.js: fx.elem.style[attr] = "rgb(" + [ Math.max(Math.min( parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[0] - fx.start[0])) + f...

Qtip JQuery tooltip library - Only the right hand side corners are showing rounded

When I specify rounded corners for my qtip tooltip only the right hand side are rounded, and the left hand side have notches cut in the corners where the rounded corner should be. This shows up on at least firefox and IE. This is the code I'm using $('#test').qtip({ content: 'test', show: 'click', hide: 'unfocus', style: {...

Why does jquery leak memory so badly?

This is kind of a follow-up to a question I posted last week: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2429056/simple-jquery-ajax-call-leaks-memory-in-ie I love the jquery syntax and all of its nice features, but I've been having trouble with a page that automatically updates table cells via ajax calls leaking memory. So I created two simple...

Finding nth-child of siblings via jQuery

Let's say I have two tables that look like this: TH TH TH TH TD TD TD TD TD TD TD TD and TH TH TH TH TH TD TD TD TH TD TD TD I'd like to select the 3rd column in each. At first I was using nth-child as such: $('table tr td:nth-child(3)') But that's not going to work, as 3rd TD is ...

JSON Feed Appears to be XHR when it should be JS

I don't get why it'd doing this with the 2nd feed (appearing as a XHR call rather than just JS [looking at it in Firefox/Firebug]). The 2nd feed has the exact same MIME type as Flickr's JSON feed, yet the PortlandOregon.gov one shows as XHR and i get a NULL callback when using $.getJSON and if i use $.ajax with a 'json' or 'jsonp' type i...