jquery

How to subclass a specific jqueryui widget method ?

Since I updated jQueryUI to 1.8 I found a couple of issues in our implementations and I could fix it myself without waiting for a fix on their end if I could find out how to subclass a specific method of the datepicker widget so I call the parent code and then execute my code. I was reading on $.widget but I just can't wrap my head arou...

MVC partial page update

Hello, I have an MVC project where I have a form with fields a user can enter and save. On that same page I have a table which shows a brief listing of information that the user just saved. The problem I am having is trying to update only the table after a save and not an entire page refresh. Is this possible in jquery or MVC? If ...

Jquery and binding an event to an iframe

**I'm currently using a jquery textselect plugin to fire alerts based on the selection text anywhere on the page and it works just fine doing something like: $(document).ready(function() { $(document).bind('textselect', function(e) { alert(e.text); }); }); I've since had to add an iframe to the page and I need the te...

An event for when xVal validation fails?

I have a registration form leveraging xVal to handle all validation on the form. It works really well, with one exception: the user doesn't get feedback because another element on the page (a tip telling the user that their username will be their email address) draws on top of the span element xVal spits out when it notices a problem. I...

Undesired "flashing" in Jquery dropdown menu?

Hi, I've got the following piece of Jquery: $("#collapse-menu > li > a").click(function() { $(this).toggleClass("expanded").toggleClass("collapsed").find("+ ul").slideToggle("medium"); }); What it basically does is expands or collapses a menu of nested "lists" which contain dropdowns (simplified example): <ul id="collapse-menu">...

In Javascript, how do I check if the browser is a MAC?

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jquery.ui sortable using a table and item:tr , placeholder difficulties

Hi I would really like to give some sortable goodness to the myriad old tables I have created. A little work has a proof of concept behaving ok. My one sticking point is that the placeholder does not work at all in IE 7 when using item:TR . It works OK in FF. I can make an perform correctly. It seems to be specific to tables and ...

scrollTop value not reflecting actual position of div at beginning and end of scrollable distance

Hi folks, I am using jQuery's scrollTo to make relative adjustments in the position of content inside a div. Works fine: http://www.hmadvertising.com/test.php However I also want to show and hide the control elements when they aren't relevant. Eg no Up button when scrollTop is zero and no down when scrollTop == scrollHeight. The adj...

Jquery Fast image switching

Hi, I have a php class that generates a map image depending on my db data. It is periodically updated thru a serInterval loop. I am trying to update it with no flickering but I just can't. I've tried different methods (preloader, imageswitcher) with no success. //first load function map() { $("#map").html("<img src=map.php?randval=...

jquery help assigning multiple mouse events using a .each() to hide/show icons and show background color

Need some help assigning a mouseover event to display some icons that start out hidden. For every <li> in the ul, I have icons. When the user mouses over the <li> I want the span tag with a class called "icons" to be displayed. When the mouse out event occurs remove the class and/or just hide the span. The problem for me is how to as...

jquery live problem

Hi, I have a website which uses jquery and lots of mouseover/mouseout effect. So far I used the .bind() method of jquery but if you have >1000 event handlers, this is slowing down your browser a lot. So, I want to move to use .live or .delegate. One part of my portal site is a chat area. User can set chat messages which will then be ...

Should Javascript be separated into files by page or consolidated into one file?

Should I be separating my js for each page assuming there is no overlap and putting references on each page instead of having one master file? what is typical practice? thanks ...

Doing ajax with Jquery.

I have been loading content with ajax and all works fine. Here is my code $(document).ready(function() { //Load a-z.php //Timestamp resolves IE caching issue var tsTimeStamp= new Date().getTime(); $.post('../../includes/categories/a-z.php', {action: "post", time: tsTimeStamp}, function(data){ $('#moviescontainer')....

How to disable original img title when using qtip

I am using jquery 1.4.2 and qtip-1.0.js in ie/7/6/8 whenever I hover over the image on which the tooltip is applied, I get the tooltip... but I also do get the original title... does not happen on the firefox though... Is there any option or setting specific to disable the img titl and just show the tooltip? my code looks like this $(...

JQuery plugin for progressive enhancement of select drop-downs to muli-column display

Anyone know of a jquery plugin that can convert the contents of a select drop-down list to a multi-column panel? Ideally, I would want to also support option groups, so that all the items in a group would stay together in a single column. Here is an example of what I mean: ...

Dynamically loading jQuery library from a custom component and ensuring only one instance.

Say I have a web component that uses jQuery and I want to distribute it as a packaged component. I need a way to ensure that the jQuery library is available on or after the page loads, but I also want to check that the containing html page, or another unknown component that may reference jQuery hasn't already added the library to the pa...

How to remember last state with Jquery?

I have a menu with submenus that can be toggled (hide/show type deal). Is there a relatively easy way to remember last state of the menu? (I hide/show submenu when clicking on a header and change a style of the header so the background arrow will change (up/down)). It works fine, but I'd like it to remember last state, so when user goes ...

jQuery using .animate() fails to do ANYTHING in IE8

So, it's official: I hate Internet Explorer. Yes, all bloody versions of it. :-D So, I didn't think I was doing anything complicated here, but apparently I am. I have a bunch of list items in an unordered list styled for a navigation menu, and in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, things work fine. What is supposed to happen is wh...

Help porting a bit of Prototype JavaScript to jQuery

I have already implemented some AJAX pagination in my Rails app by using the example code for the will_paginate plugin--which is apparently using Prototype. But if I wanted to switch to using jQuery for future additions, I really don't want to have the Prototype stuff sitting around too (yes, I know it's possible). I haven't written a l...

Jquery plugins not working on ajaxed content

I have some content that I am loading using jquery ajax. The content has jquery plugins attached (example a modal box). My problem is that because the ajaxed content isn't part of the original dom it hasn't had the plugins applied to it. How do I apply the plugins to ajaxed content??? Is there someway I can reinitialize i the plugins?...