jquery

trigger click behaviour of image-map's area

I have a image map set up and each area in the image map has a href defined. the href on area contains urls to other pages in my application. i generate a small list (ul, li) which lists down the name attribute of the area tag. i want the dynamically generated ul/lis to imitate click behaviour of area tag. for this, i have the following ...

How to override jquery's show() and hide() functions

hi all Short version of question: see title Long version of question: I've used jquery's show() and hide() functions extensively in my code and just encountered a bit of a problem: they work by changing the display attribute of the element to 'block' or 'none' respectively, so that if you have somethin that has display: inline and t...

Limit Checkbox amount

I have 20 Checkboxes. I need to disable 16 Checkboxes, if 4 checkboxes are selected. I tryed this begann with this jquery code $("input[type=checkbox][name=cate]:checked").each( function() { } ); What i need is if a user selects 4 checkboxes then all other checkboxes should be disabled. ...

JavaScript, jQuery, XML - if statement not executing for unknown reason

Hi, I have a 'for' loop which extracts data from an XML document and adds it into some JavaScript objects, each time the loop executes I want it to run a certain function depending on the value of the attribute 'typ' which is being retrieved from the xml. Currently, the data from the XML is successfully being parsed, which is proven by...

How to delay hiding of a menu with Jquery Dropdown Menu?

I have a dropdown menu that works fine, but I would like it so, that if I hover off the menu, it doesn't immediately hide again. So basically I would like a one second delay. I have read about setTimeout, but not sure if it is what I need? $('#mainnav a').bind('mouseover', function() { $(this).parents('li').children('ul').show(); }...

Reload jquery autocomplete in the on change event of a drop down

I have country,state dropdowns and a city textbox with autocomplete feature.My issue is,when I change state, it is displaying previously selected cities since city autocomplete takes data from cache instead of calling server with new stateid.City autocomlete request server response with new stateid only if the cities are not in the selec...

jQTouch animated table cell hight

Hi everybody, I am using jQTouch to show a table list. When a cell (really a <li> tag in jQTouch) is clicked, I would like to animate the height of the cell down to 0, then hide the element. I have tried using jquery.animate() for this, and it works on firefox/chrome/opera, but it is super slow on the iPhone. Does anyone have any id...

How to open form action in Jquery Dialog

I have a form: <form style="display: inline;" action="/player.php" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="recname" value="'.$row['name'].'"> <input type="hidden" name="recordingdesc" value="'.$row['description'].'"> <input type="hidden" name="reclink" value="$_SESSION['customerid'].'-'.$row['timest...

How to print a html-table with a lot of columns.

Hello all, I'm trying to print a table with a lot of columns, so that the width of the table doesn't fit a single page. I'm using jqprint to print that table. But it prints only the left part of the table, and the right part it won't print. Is there a way to print the table on multiple pages? Kind regards, Bruno ...

Unsure how to design JavaScript / jQuery functionality which uses XML to create HTML objects

Hi, I'm using JavScript and jQuery to read an XML document and subsequently use the information from the XML to create HTML objects. The main 'C' nodes in the XML document all have a type attribute, and depending on the type I want to run a function which will create a new html object using the other attributes assigned to that particu...

How to get a webpage as plain text without any html using javascript?

i am trying to find a way using javascript or jquery to write a function which remove all the html tags from a page and just give me the plain text of this page. How this can be done? any ideas? ...

Can I use Character Encoding for Regular Expressions?

Can I use Character Encoding for Regular Expressions...? e.g. this.html().replace(/&lt;\/?[^&gt;]+>/gi, '') Instead of: this.html().replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '') ...

Javascript form validation events

Hi All, I am making a small form for a php app and had a question regarding javascript validation. What is the best event to run the javascript validation on the input value? Is it the "focusout" event? I used "focusout" to originally but it creates problems when the user hits enter while they are still focused on any particular fiel...

How do you override an existing html form to use jquery to post the form?

I have a simple form that I am currently posting back to the server to update a nickname. What jquery code do I add (without changing the form) so that the page will not refresh, but instead jquery will post the form in the background and then pop up an alert message containing the reply back from the server? <form method="post" actio...

locking save button for some time

hi, i am using php,mysql,jquery. When a user clicks on save i go to back end and save data and show the response. once show the success i need to disable the save button for say 1 min. how do i do it.? here is ma code $(document).ready(function() { if ($.cookie('<?php echo $userId ?><?php echo $product ?><?php echo $alias ?>a...

jquery datepicker with multiple months in vertical column

Hello! I need to display jquery datepicker calendar with multiple months options in vertical column. Looks like next month lies below previous one. Does any body know, how to do that? Thank you! ...

jQuery animate element reveal - bottom to top

I'm trying to animate a horizontal lists appearance. It's a top navigation bar. The following works pretty well, but it animates in from the top (of, I assume, the ul) to the bottom. How would animate bottom, up? $("#topnavigation li").css({height:'0'}); // 'hide' it first $("#topnavigation li", this).stop().animate({height:'23px'},...

How to determine loading status of images not attached to the DOM

I am working on a bit of javascript to plot data on a <canvas>. The data points are marked by one of several different (small) image files. I am attempting to have the plot method wait until all the images are loaded. My best attempt thus far is such: var icon = { left : { air : new Image(), bone : new Image(), ...

Getting JSON back from rails with respond_with

I have a jquery ajax call that goes to the create action, and I need to get the response back as JSON to then do something with it on the page in the success ajax function, but for some reason with rails it keeps throwing a missing template error: class MembersController < ApplicationController respond_to :json def create @memb...

load content of file with jquery

I have a php file sitting in a directory. The file has some content to it that is just html. All I would like to do is to use JQuery to get the file contents and place then in a div on my page. $(".page-intro").load("barware-title.php"); I have tried to use above code to load the page, but nothing happens. Here is my Div <div id=...