jquery

Is there a good HTML5 and JavaScript beginners tutorial for making iPad web apps?

i am planning to develop a web app for iPad. Basically its e- catalog app. so my requirement is Intuitive UI (animation etc..) Support all touch gestures So my question is is there any good source of examples or tutorials for getting started with HTML5 and JavaScript? Thank you so much. UPDATE i just found about "Sencha Touch" any...

Examples of practical javascript object oriented design patterns

What object oriented design patterns do you use in your application's javascript, and why? Feel free to post code, even if there is no formal design pattern attached to it. I have written plenty of javascript, but I have not applied much object orientated patterns to what I am doing, and I am sure i am missing a lot. ...

jQuery voting system

So I am making a voting system, basically a Thumbs Up & Thumbs Down voting system. I am using CakePHP and jQuery with MySQL but want to make sure the front end is correct and this is the best way to do it. I want the user to be able to change their vote, so utilizing jQuery is this the best and most efficient way? I'm fairly novice wi...

jQuery(document).width() doesn't include width outside of viewable area

jQuery(document).width() doesn't include the total width (viewable + outside of viewable when there's a horizontal bar). It equals jQuery(window).width(). I thought jQuery(window).width() is the viewable area width and jQuery(document).width() is the total width. How do I get the total width or how do I get the width of the area outside...

Cancel the autocomplete after I leave the field

Is there a way to stop the ui jquery autocomplete if the user leaves the page looking at the Documentation here I see many things .autocomplete( "destroy" ) .autocomplete( "disable" ) .autocomplete( "close" ) but how do i use them after a use leaves the field $("#request_song").autocomplete({ source: function(req, add){...

How do you say this in jQuery?

I want to alert something if the user's mouse has left TWO html elements (a textfield as well as a span block). How do I say the AND in jquery, in vain I tried something like this: if ($('textarea.commentField') && $('span.loginPrompt')).mouseout(function() { alert('something'); }); ...

jquery from external file.

I am a newbie to Jquery as will be evident. I have 2 scripts in an external file named scrip.js and it is included with a simple <script src="/media/javascripts/scrips.js"></script> the two scripts in scrips.js are function textCounter(field,cntfield,maxlimit) { if (field.value.length > maxlimit) // if too long...trim it! field.va...

Rails 3 AJAX remote form call backs

I'm upgrading from rails 2.3.8 to 3.0.0, so I need to replace the remote_form_for helper calls with form_for(@object, :remote=>true). I've been following along with Simone Carletti but I cant seem to get the ajax callbacks from rails.js to fire. My generated HTML is: <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/vendor_shipments" class="new_v...

Jquery variables variable

There exist some concept like variables variable to print variable names or call functions dynamically: http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php Thanks in advance. ...

Is that possible to do this using jQuery ?

I have a structure of divs inside divs, something like this: <div class='parent'> <div class='a first'>something here</div> <div class='a'>something here</div> <div class='a last'>something here</div> <div>something here</div> <div>something here</div> <div class='a first'>something here</div> <div class='a'>...

create html using jquery

Hi experts, First of all let me know if my question is completely vague or doesnt make any sense. What I am trying to do is: I Have a page which displays some blocks of data (Block can be considered as a row of data). Each block will be seperate <DIV> and inside this <DIV> I have Nested two tables. My question, How do I populate or g...

JQuery Hide table with an enumerated list

I have the following that will enumerate over the model and add an invoice and a date. Then under that I want to have a table with the line items for that invoice that is collapsible for each invoice. I am not sure how to do this while enumerating over the model, I don't know how to uniquely ID the table, then I am not sure how to tell ...

sniffing browsers in a post sniff world, can I still use jquery.browser?

hey guys Post Sniffing Rules Although browser sniffing used to be quite popular, it's now gone out of fashion (for good reasons) and has been deprecated (if not dropped) by popular libraries such as jquery. The better way is to do feature detection. Exception To The New Rule However, there are times when you might be targeting (for ...

Image preloading with array

Hi, I am using the following code to preload images in an image gallery: $(window).bind('load', function(){ var imageNumber = $(".image").attr("alt"); var imageUp = parseInt(imageNumber) + 1 var imageUp2 = parseInt(imageNumber) + 2 var imageDown = parseInt(imageNumber) - 1 var preload = [ 'image' + imageUp + '.jpg', 'image...

Asign click handler to newly appended elements

Hi, How does one go about adding a click handler in the following example? I need to assign it to the newly appended anchor element. $.each(regions1, function(key, value) { var coords = regions1[key].rel.split('-'); $("#map").append("<a href='javascript:void(0)' id='"+ regions1[key].id +"' class='bullet' style='left: "+ addpx(...

Display line break in <div> tag from database

I have to display an article from database inside a < div> tag. This article was inserted into database from a textarea. My problem is: i could not display exactly the structure that i inserted from the textarea (including line break) I tried the below code to replace the enter character to < br> tag but it did not work <div id="tmpId"...

GIF loading stops when I show it

Look this code: $('#loader').show(); $.post( '/action.php', function( data ) { // do anything with data $('#loader').hide(); } ); The loader DIV has a GIF image simulating loading state, This code works well but the GIF stops when is waiting the data (post called) ... I want the gif moves ever independently of the other codes in ...

Load images when the user scrolls down the page -

I have been noticing a trend in blogs where the images don't load until you scroll down the page and the images appear in the view screen. I imagine that this must be some sort of jquery magic, but after some googling I haven't been able to figure out how it works. Does anyone know how this is done? EDIT: If you want to see an exampl...

Jquery: iphone style checkbox plugin, why is it so big? can't it be so much simplier?

I was looking up jquery checkbox scripts/plugins, and I came across this one: Jquery Checkbox Plugin Why is it 8kb? that's absolutely HUGE for something that could be so incredibly simple, right? I'm not that good at Javascript/Jquery, but I know that you can set up a click event on an image that toggles a checkbox that has the same cla...

Is it possible to append to a div with a given attribute?

Hey guys quick question, How do you append to a specific div with a specified attribute? ex. <div attribute="234"></div> $('#divwithattribute234').append('test'); ...