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Any tricks to finding a lost jQuery object?

Hi stack folk! I'm working with jQuery.validate. One of its options is "success" where a function can be called upon valid user entry on a form. The only argument that can be passed is "label" which (as I understand) is a dynamically added label field to the right of the input element. I need to perform a series of actions on a sib...

jquery (or pure js) simulate enter key pressed for testing

What the best way to simulate the user pressing "enter"? $(element).keypress() doesn't seem to allow me to pass in the actual key that was pressed. ...

Javascript alternative height, width control.

is there away to use a different positioning system for elements. where you don't change the width and height of the element instead you can change it using left,right, top, bottom more or less like the flex controllers? ...

How to retrieve value from json output?

Hi, I am new to json. I have json output that looks like this [ { "employees": { "education": "BE\/B.Tech" }, "0": { "count": "1" } }, { "employees": { "education": "MBA" }, "0": { "count": "3" } } ] I want...

Does IE 8 not support push?

Hi I am trying to insert an key/value pair into a serializeArray(from jquery). So I have something like var form = $('#form'); var sendFormData = form.serializeArray(); sendFormData.push({ "name": "Name", "value": "test"}); In firefox this works yet in IE 8 I get Line: 51 Error: Object doesn't support this property or method ...

problem to get radio input box value in jquery

guys i need to get the value of a input radio box so i wrote this code if ($("input[@name='notify']:checked").val() == '1'){ var notifyme=1; } else { var notifyme=0; } but everytime i send the request through php function it says notifyme var is 1 and even i checked 0 radio box it still says the value is 1 html part ...

jQuery change background with <input type="range">

How do, I've been teaching myself a little basic jQuery recently, doing so I stumbled across the idea of adding a slider to change the background colour of my page. I've figured out the .click and .css parts ok - it works fine with a div, which is incredibly exciting; but I'm having a little trouble implementing it using a range. I thin...

In Javascript: Load some collection of data, randomly sort it, return it for output

I am loading some XML data, building it into an unordered list and displaying it. I now need to sort this data so it is displayed in a random order each time it is loaded. Do I need to completely change how I am doing this below or is there an easy way to get the data and sort it before using my existing code to format it for output? He...

Applying Hoverintent to a Jquery Hover

Hello all! I'm having some issues with this layout and having a link that displays on hover stay showing! Here's a sample of the table row which is displaying the data... <tr> <td> <div class="heightControl"> <a href="#">data</a> <div class="logRemove"><a href="#" class="sremovelink"></a></div> </div> </td> <td>12.14.09 / 12:3...

Passing any argument to jQuery validate success option

Hello! jQuery validate has a success option that allows you to perform operations when a user enters valid form data. It typically takes the argument of "label" which is a dynamically inserted tag for displaying a success label (like a checkmark). I can't retrieve siblings of "label" for some reason and it doesn't appear in Firebug. ...

Polling Vs AsyncCallback callbacks - best approach for a slow web service?

I have a webpage that uses AJAX to get search results for a page. On the server side I am querying a web service that is very slow - 20 seconds to 2 minutes. As I understand it, my options are either polling or having a long running request. AsyncCallback seems to be ideal since the result would be returned as soon as the web service r...

JQuery Toggle only 1 item and the others not clicked

Ok so i have this Jquery that will toggle some radio buttons on the page. I want it so when someone clicks on one of the radio buttons the others are not clicked. Currently the way i have it they can select 3 at a time and I need it to act like a regular radio button that one is clicked and the others are not jQuery: $(function () { ...

button_to_remote using jQuery and Rails 3

Is this possible given the button_to_remote function seems to be defined as a Prototype helper? I've replaced my /public/javascripts/rails.js with the jQuery driver. When I try to use button_to_remote I get the error undefined method 'button_to_remote' for #<#<Class:0x000001078d7090>:0x0000010789ad20> If this is not possible using butt...

Is there a way to select an input of the parent form as a child with id specified?

Hey guys, quick question, I have an id that is applied multiple times on one of my pages (I used multiple duplicate ids because I also have a class applied that determines if the icon is a certain color rather than just duplicate the id css for each button color). I am using a jquery form handler that initiates on form submission and I...

Simulate a click by using x,y coordinates? - Javascript

Hi folks, is it possible to use coordinates in order to simulate a click? Or is this technically impossible? :O I'm using Javascript within a webpage. Help would be great, and also quite interesting!!! =) ...

Catching any click performed using jQuery

Hi folks, the noob way to do it I guess would be $('*').click(function(){...}); But is there any way I can catch any type of click, without having to register a listener for every object in the DOM? Help would be amazing. =) ...

Any way I can interact with a jQuery animation queue? - jQuery

Hi folks, Any way I can interact with a jQuery animation queue? I would like to be able to use an animation as if it were a movie of some sort, enabling me to rewind, fast forward, or even play the animation from a certain relative time. I understand if this might be way too complicated to achieve, but for me it's worth asking and f...

jQuery validation: check for existing username in DB

Hello, I want to put together the functionality of these two links: http://www.bitrepository.com/a-simple-ajax-username-availability-checker.html http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/ (demo: http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/) It is actually adding the email existence check to the jQuery Validation plu...

Jquery - Ajax - callback function?

Hi, I am using a $.get request to get some data and am then storing it in a cookie. The get request is ran when a user clicks a button. They would then follow a link to another page and the data stored to the cookie is extracted and displayed on the new page. Unfortunately some people are rather vigorous with their clicking, the get r...

JQuery ajax getJSON response has size but empty body?

We are trying to hit the meetup.com api using jquery's getJSON() method and are running into some problems. In firebug we can run $.getJSON( 'http://api.meetup.com/events.json?group_urlname=Closing-the-NOLA-Gap&amp;key=ourkey', function(data) { console.log(data) } ); We can see the call taking some time. We can inspect the response ...