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JQuery: Selector that contains some text, but doesn't contain others

Sorry if this question is mind numbingly easy to answer, but I'm a bit new to JQuery and I have a tight deadline. I am looking for a selector for textbox elements that have this format: id = "FixedName_#" "FixedName" will always be "FixedName", but I only want to find elements where the # is positive. So I would want to find "FixedNa...

MVC app not working on server but is fine on development machine

Hello, I am able to run my application just fine on my dev machine but as soon as I publish it to the web server some functionality is lost. Any type of .ajax POST does not work usually with a 401 unauthorized error. The server is Windows 2008 with IIS7. I also installed Visual Studio 2008 with MVC2 on the server and ran the applicat...

Creating a tooltip over a table cell?

I have created a HTML table which has a function written in javascript that takes the value of the cursors position within a large table cell and then prints the value into a cell. How would i go about printing the value in a tooltip instead of a table cell? ...

JQUery autocompleter not working properly in IE8

Hi everyone! I have some script which is working in firefox and chrome but in IE 8 I get this error: $.Autocompleter.defaults = { inputClass: "ac_input", resultsClass: "ac_results", loadingClass: "ac_loading", minChars: 1, delay: 400, matchCase: false, matchSubset: true, matchContains: false, cacheLen...

CSS style like Windows Seven/Vista

I need to create a web application using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and web standards for a customer with a style which look like Windows Vista/Seven. Can anybody indicate me a link to do this with CSS? I have searched on the web, but I couldn't find it. I'd like to have interface elements like "window", "menu", "buttons", "form controls", etc...

Getting "Expected ',' or '{' but found '[selector]'" error.

Getting "Expected ',' or '{' but found '#44559'" error. My code looks like this: var valueid = $("div#center-box div#empid-textbox input").val(); //valueid=44559 if($("div#esd-names li#" + valueid).length > 0){ //DO SOMETHING; }; I'm getting the value of what is entered into a textbox input field which in case is "44559" can't see...

JQuery: How to select all elements except input and textarea? (to disable keydown event)

I am trying to disable the backspace key in my jQuery app, so that it does not cause the browser to go back a page. However, I do not want to disable it if an input or textarea element is focused, because I want backspace to work properly there. So, I want to select anything that is not an input or textarea. Here is the code. The prob...

Submit a different form depending on character count in jQuery?

Ok, so here's what I want to do, preferably with jQuery 1.4.2: Have one <input type="text"> and one <input type="button"> If the text-input has exactly N number characters, I want a click on the button to submit the form with one action. Else, the button submits the form with another action. Unfortunately I'm a jQuery n00b, and I can...

Load Country/State/City

I have chain of drop down like Country / state and City. Is there is any way to wait until the drop down population then proceed further? like first load the country and then based on the select of an country then load the state and same as city.... function populateLists(listType) { // on success do this:<br> ...

Need to dynamically-generate a "sticky note" text

Working on a website that has an image of a sticky note which will change text somewhat frequently (every month or so) as new "todo" items are created on it. Font I'm currently using is not Web Safe and the text is slightly angled to match the skew of the sticky note as well. Now I'm a pragmatist, and in situations like this I would no...

Is it abuse to put application/business logic inside of jQuery plugins?

Is it appropriate to create jQuery plugins which are specific to a single page? I've been creating generic plugins that are not tied to any context and contain no business logic, but some people I've talked to suggest that almost all javascript, including business logic and logic specific to a single page, should be inside of jQuery plu...

How do you overlay text on images/videos?

Hi. We need to place text over objects in a web page, similar to this: http://www.queness.com/resources/html/slideshow/jquery-slideshow.html The text "bar" needs to appear on top of images and videos. For the videos, we're using the html5media library (http://code.google.com/p/html5media/), which renders a <video> tag for those browsers...

ASP.NET MVC redirect from asynchronous call

I send asynchronous call using jQuery form plugin and in the case of success want to redirect user to some "success-page". Now my ASP.NET MVC action just returns some special "success-JSON" and the user is redirected using Javascript. Is there any way to implement automatic redirect (without Javascript call)? ...

jQuery Click event on object added with JavaScript not working.

I'm work on a quiz for school but I've bumped into a problem. I got a javascript file for custom radio buttons (CUSTOM FORM ELEMNTS by Ryan Fait if it's helping). The script hides the input buttons and adds custom styled spans instead. Now what I want, when I click one of these JavaScript added spans I want to remove disabled for a but...

jquery grab and move toggle element

i have a div that is displayed via: $('a#biz-blue-lnk').click(function() { $('#business-blue').show(); return false; }); what i want to figure out is when this DIV is displayed, can i enable the user to grab it and move it around the screen? potentially if they click another DIV they could have two elements on screen... and...

Getting search results from Twitter in php

I'm attempting to put together a little mashup with some twitter APIs. However, the whole area is new to me (I'm more of an embedded developer dabbling). And frustratingly, every tutorial I am trying in Php is either out of date, not doing what it claims to do, it or is broken. Essentially, I just want a nice bit of example code - say...

How do I add a function to an element via jQuery?

I want to do something like this: $('.dynamicHtmlForm').validate = function() { return true; } $('.dynamicHtmlForm .saveButton').click(function() { if (!$(this).closest('.dynamicHtmlForm').validate()) { return false; } return true; }); And then when I have a form of class dynamicHtmlForm, I want to be able to provide a c...

jquery tooltip shows a div's content

Hello, I want to use either http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/tipsy/ or http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/ and I was wondering if lets say I have a div on my page that has a class 'item_info'. Can I have my tooltip that is created output the div inside the tooltip and formatted properly according to m...

jQuery 1.3.2 - Best way to prevent events triggering on lower elements?

I have this (simplification): $(li).click(function{alert("test");}); <li> <input> </li> What's the best way to bind an event to li but not fire when the user clicks on the input element? ...

Ruby methods within Javascript within HAML

I have a jQuery script that adds a new field to a form, and this field contains dynamic information from an array. The problem is that I can't figure out how to add an array.each to populate the options of the select field within the javascript without breaking the HAML indentation and causing errors. Here is my best attempt that does n...