jquery

Find an element by class name, from a known parent element

Hi, I want to find an element by class name. I know it will appear in a particular parent div, so rather than search the entire dom, I'd like to search only the particular div. I am trying this, but does not seem to be the correct syntax: var element = $("#parentDiv").(".myClassNameOfInterest"); what's the right way to do that? Than...

Proper syntax for jQuery's SWFObject plugin

What is the syntax for jQuery's SWFObject plugin? I can't find examples containing more object attributes or parameters other than the ones in the plugin's homepage. edit var flashvars = {}; flashvars.clickTag = "http://www.onesite.com/?tag=10606&tag2=~banner_1134&target=_blank"; var params = {}; params.scale = "exactfit"; v...

JQUERY, appending an LI to a UL, and then animating that LI

I have an UL: <ul id="news-feed">.....</ul> I'd like to be able to append a LI to the top of the list and have that appended item slideDown into place. $("#news-feed").append('<li">This is my item</li>').hide().slideDown(); Problem I'm having is the above code is sliding the news-feed item down, and not the appended item. Any ideas...

How to access child element out of children()?

Hi, I'd like to get the # of immediate children an element has, and then get the class of a child at a particular index. Something like: var index = 25; var children = $("#myListElement").children(); if (index < children.length) { if (children[index].hasClass("testClass")) { alert("hi!"); } } I think the syntax for .c...

Sequencing ajax requests

I find I sometimes need to iterate some collection and make an ajax call for each element. I want each call to return before moving to the next element so that I don't blast the server with requests - which often leads to other issues. And I don't want to set async to false and freeze the browser. Usually this involves setting up some k...

jQuery Checkbox class attribute

how do you access the class attribute of a <asp:Checkbox> in a jQuery selector statement? for example <asp:CheckBox runat="server" ID="cbTest" Text="Cb Test" FieldName="1st Test Check Box" class="toggleBox"/> this: $(':checkbox').toggleAttr("checked", true, false) accesses the checkbox and applies a custom function to the checked ...

accessing list sent from server as JSON object

How to access a list sent in form of json object using django to the template received in ajax callback function . The code is as follows : views.py def showfiledata(request): with open("/home/tazim/webexample/test.txt") as f: list = f.readlines() f.closed return_dict = {'filedata':list} json = simp...

JQuery plugin: catch events for clicking/tabbing into and out of an input box

I'm creating a Javascript JQuery Timepicker control plugin (which I hope to open source soon) and I would like some advice on how to best register the events in the cleanest way. The control will attach to an <input> box and provide a graphical way to enter times of day ( 14:25, 2:45 AM, etc...). It does this by adding a <div> after the...

displaying the file data in correct format

hi, In views.py def showfiledata(request): with open("/home/tazim/webexample/tmp.txt") as f: read_data = f.read() f.closed return_dict = {'filedata':read_data} json = simplejson.dumps(return_dict) return HttpResponse(json,mimetype="application/json") In the template: <html> <head> <script type="text/javasc...

handing data returned from jquery get request

I have a simple jquery script as follows: $('a').click(function() { //get the id of the song we want to play var song_id = $(this).attr("id"); //do a get request to get the information about the song $.get("http://www.site.com/v4/ajax/get_song_info.php", { id: song_id, }, function(data) { ...

choose javascript variable based on element id from jquery

I feel like this is a simple question, but I am still relatively new to javascript and jquery. I am developing a site for a touch interface that uses unordered lists and jquery .click functions to take input data. I have a section to input a m:ss time, with 3 divs, each containing a list of digits for time. I need to get the input for e...

jquery json function returning null

I have a jquery script as below: $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "http://www.site.com/v4/ajax/get_song_info.php", data: ({id : song_id }), dataType: "json", success: function(data) { alert( "Data: " + data ); } }); And the associated php page: <?php include_once '../connect.php'; $song_id = $_GET['id'...

JQuery function to select checkboxes

I need a function that accepts a parameter with its id example a div and after that loops inside the div to look for checkboxes and if there is/are any checks if its value is checked and returns true if every checkbox is checked returns false. ...

jquery attr problem

function rotateimg(ulid,showid,linkid) { var cur = $("#"+ulid+" li.current"); var nxt = cur.next("li"); if (nxt.length == 0) { nxt = $("#"+ulid+" li:first"); } cur.removeClass("current"); nxt.addClass("current"); var img_value=nxt.attr("id")...

jQuery script to move an attribute of matched elements to their children

I have a set of anchors like <a class="lb" href="#">text</a> <a class="lb" href="#" style="width:200px">text</a> <a class="lb" href="#" style="color: reen; width:200px">text</a> that needs to be transformed to the following: <a class="lb" href="#"><span>text</span></a> <a class="lb" href="#"><span style="width:200px">text</span></a> ...

jquery image slider with image strip dragging

Hi, I want to create a image strip slider using jquery. I have used jcarousel plugin for my image gallery and light box plugin to get preview of selected image. Now, my task is when any of the image is selected i can drag to either side. i.e I can select the image and drag to any direction within that image container. If any one can he...

jQuery-ajax call: async property is not working?

Hi, given to certain circumstances, I'm forced to keep page settings (Javascript-values) in the session and it has to be done right before leaving the page (I can't use cookies, since "pageSettings" can become quite large and localStorage is not an option yet ;) ). So this is how I tried it. However it seems that when I call the page di...

jquery change not working incase of dynamic value change

In jQuery how can I track onchange event if the value of textbox is changing dynamically from some other event. I tried this but its not working: $("#txtbox").change(function(){ alert("change"); }); ...

jquery validate check at least one checkbox

I have something like this: <form> <input id='roles' name='roles' type='checkbox' value='1' /> <input id='roles' name='roles' type='checkbox' value='2' /> <input id='roles' name='roles' type='checkbox' value='3' /> <input id='roles' name='roles' type='checkbox' value='4' /> <input id='roles' name='roles' type='checkbox' value='5' /> <in...

Google Chrome is doing things wrong again

Chrome is wrongly reporting width and height values for images during, or just after, load time. Jquery is used in this code example: <img id='image01' alt='picture that is 145x134' src='/images/picture.jpg' /> <script> var img = $( 'img#image01' ) img.width() // would return 145 in Firefox and 0 in Chrome. img.height() // would re...