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What does the @ character do in jQuery?

On the selectors page, it says @ is one of the meta-characters. But what does it do? ...

Ajax Complete Problem

Hi All, I have a method which calls a another method which inturns has some ajax call to the back end. MethodB(){ MethodA()// this has some ajax functionality setpopupposition()// wants to overwrite x,y postions after MethodA sets...X,y postion. } MetodhA(){ AjaxCall(); Setx Popup to x,y location } The problem here is MethodA sets...

jQuery code not executing - iPhone

Im using jquery in webview basically im calling jquery method inside the html string loaded inside the webview. problem is webview is loaded properly but method is getting executed. i tried putting breakpoints it's hard to see the execution inside the string. Thanks in advance. ...

How to correctly unbind dom-elements in jQuery widgets?

hi i have some troubles with memoryleaks in javascript. i'm using the Leak Memory 0.4.5 extension for firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2490/) which shows me those javascript-objects which still remains in the memory. now i'm not sure how to correctly unbind dom-object from events etc. for instance: i have a jquery-wid...

Is there any easy way to get DOM descendants like with the parents() method when using jQuery?

$('something').parents('selectors') lets me move several levels up the DOM at once, versus parent() which unsurprisingly returns the current element's immediate parent. Unfortunately (though logically), children() does not operate like parents() and instead only returns the element's immediate children, similar to how parent() works. I'm...

Jquery Problem Sort of Auto Slideshow

Hi there, I'm having some problems, I'd like to have a sort of slideshow where users have 4 buttons, and when they click one div appears and the others disappear. The div's are all in the same place with the same size. I'd also like to put this automatic var Idx = 1; var IntervalKey = setInterval = (auto, 5000); var auto = function() ...

Limit of JQuery's append()

Hello, My database contains huge records. I wants to use twitter like pagination with the help of JQuery's append(). Is any limit available for JQuery's append()? ...

javascript function return data

I have a function like this that does an ajax call to grab some data from a database. function db (content) { $.post('/ajax/db.php', { operation:operation, content:content }, function(data) { console.log(data); return data; }); } console.log(data); ...

Rails 3 - including JavaScript on a View?

Hello, here's what I'm trying to do right.... When a user signs in and is redirect to the landing page, I want to run a bit of jquery ajax to grab and inject some content. I originally had it in my application.js file but the problem with that is that the code is there for user's that aren't logged in, which means I have to add logic to...

Why is my jquery .each() function not working properly?

I wrote this function: jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('input[type=text]').each( function(i) { thisval = jQuery(this).val(); jQuery(this).blur( function() { if (jQuery(this).val() == '') { jQuery(this).val(thisval); } }); // end blur function jQuery(...

jQuery, creating an HTML block that I can insert into the page

Hello, I have the following html: <div id="box"> <span>stuff.....</span> </div> What i'd like to do is create a JavaScript variable with this html... Then with jQuery be able to insert that into the page with something like $('#contentCol').html(mystuff) Is there an elegant way to do this rather than a long string of html? ...

how can i make jquery tree with two level only?

i am beginer in jquery and i don't have experince in jquery but i need to use tree with two level , since when i click on ?one link new links appear down of it , just like hotmail inbox idea ! can some one help ? ...

conditional check for focus is in textarea or input field

$('body').keyup(function(e) { var code = e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.which; switch(code) { case 8: alert('blah'); break; } }); When a user hits backspace, I want the alert to pop up UNLESS the cursor is positioned within a textearea, input, etc. Any ideas on how to do this? ...

Native prototypes vs $.extension()

At work, we use jQuery. Shortly after we started using it, I saw that a couple developers were adding functions to a file jquery-extensions.js. Inside, I found a whole bunch of methods added to $ that essentially amount to static methods on jQuery. Here's a few: $.formatString(str, args) { ... } $.objectToArray(obj) { ... } E...

Real-time CSS editing with jQuery

Is there a plugin for jQuery or generally a method to have a textarea containing CSS code of the currently open web page which will be automatically updated during edit (without page reload)? ...

Colorbox -- how to open submitted form in colorbox pop-up?

I have a form on a webpage. When the user enters input into form, and hits Submit, I would like colorbox to pop-up with the results page. Any ideas on how to go about this? I'm thinking that I have to convert the form data into a get string, put that on the end of the url to open, and then send that to colorbox. Is that the right way t...

Getting remote data - PHP or javascript?

Hi What method would you choose for retrieving tweets from Twitter, for example? Using json with jQuery (like http://juitter.com/), where client does the request. using PHP, for eg. CURL, where server does the request What are the advantages/disadvantages of both? ...

JQuery: Making a tab active

Given this website: link text How would one find an element and remove any class=selected and add it to the correct link? That way when history, models, and the like links will look become selected when clicked upon. ...

Detecting ajax request with PHP on Lighttpd a web server

Hi there, I'm having some trouble with detecting a jQuery ajax request with PHP on a Lighttpd web server. Here's the following code (works fine on MAMP and Apache): if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest') { // ajax (not recognized on lighttpd server) e...

centrally positioning div is not quite central

I have my site's main content which is centrally positioned (see div#wrapper), as it's width is 800px. position absolute, left 50% and margin-left is -400px. works perfect . my lightbox however (click on Client or Guest tab), is not positioning centrally. I've looked at Chrome Developer Tools and Firebug, and can't see anything wrong wi...