Under what circumstances would you use MicrosoftAjax over jQuery in an ASP.NET MVC application? According to Scott Cate in this podcast Object Oriented AJAX with Scott Cate MicrosoftAjax is good for sending and retrieving data to and from the server. And jQuery is good for manipulating your data via the DOM once it arrives at the client...
How do you get the proper index of a selected input from a set of input elements with irregularly numbered indexes using JQuery? JQuery's "index" function always returns a value starting from 0 instead of the indexes I used. My code is below: JQuery: $("input[name^=myboxes]").click(function() { var element_id = $("input[name^=my...
I am trying to fire an event on the right and left arrow key presses with jQuery. Using the following code, I can fire events on any of the alphanumeric keys, but the cursor keys (up, down, left, right) fire nothing. I am developing the site primarily for IE users because it is a line of business app. Am I doing something wrong here? $(...
I'm working on some JQuery to hide/show some content when I click a link. I can create something like: <a href="#" onclick="jquery_stuff" /> But if I click that link while I'm scrolled down on a page, it will jump back up to the top of the page. If I do something like: <a href="" onclick="jquery_stuff" /> The page will reload, whi...
The following code executes properly when the data key has no data to send, i.e. data: "{}" an empty JSON object and the webservice takes no parameters. I would like to post some data to the webservice but I am running into trouble. When I try to set this to data:"{'name':'Niall','surname':'Smith'}", I get an error {"Message":"Invalid...
I am working on a site, and everything is working in my local environment as well as on a test server I have here and everything works fine. but when I upload it to my host, nothing seems to work!? The Asp.Net javascript validators fire, but any and all of the jquery is not working? I even put in a simple $("#test").html("working");...
I have a ASP.NET page which has a form on it. It also has a search form on it. The search is in the top-right of the page, so the button for the search is the first added to the control hierachy. When you're working on the other form and press enter it will click on the search button. I don't want this, I would prefer that when you pres...
Hi All, I have a series of divs in a pattern of header/body, where a click on the header will show the body in question. This all happens with .click initialized on page ready... Rather than doing this (which works fine, but is a pain): $('#show_fold_ping').click(function(){ ShowArea('#fold_ping') }); $('#show_fold_http').click(funct...
I have this code in JQuery: $().ready(function() { {exp:weblog:entries weblog="locations" show_expired="yes" show_future_entries="yes" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="5" rdf="off" disable="member_data|trackbacks" status="open|featured|ongoing"} $('a.Favorites_Trigger_{entry_id}') .click (function() { $.get(this.href, function(data) { ...
I have a table and I am highlighting alternate columns in the table using jquery $("table.Table22 tr td:nth-child(even)").css("background","blue"); However I have another <table> inside a <tr> as the last row. How can I avoid highlighting columns of tables that are inside <tr> ? ...
On jQuery's official website, they say the minified file size is 18k, but after downloading, I found that is 53.9K, do I have to do something to compress it after downloading? ...
I have a select box with options in it. The value of the options gets the id of the item that is displayed in each option. I do have an other value that should be linked on this option. Is there an easy way to do this? <select id="category" name="data[cat]"> <option value="12" label="0">A</option> <option value="7" label="0">B</option...
I'm looking to create a generic confirmation box that can be used by multiple widgets easily, but I'm running into problems with scope and was hoping for a clearer way of doing what I'm trying to do. Currently I have the following - (function() { var global = this; global.confirmationBox = function() { config = { ...
Is it possible to use a jQuery ajax call to perform Forms Authentication with ASP.NET MVC? I've been unable to find any such examples. More specifically, how do I set the auth cookie on the page (without a redirect) so I can make successive authenticated ajax requests? ...
I have a select control, and in a javascript variable I have a text string. Using jQuery I want to set the selected element of the select control to be the item with the text description I have (as opposed to the value, which I don't have). I know setting it by value is pretty trivial. e.g. $("#my-select").val(myVal); But I'm a bit ...
I have this label control in my web page <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="test"></asp:Label> And when the page rendered the id of the control changes to something like this <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Label3">test</span> How can I stop asp.net from changing IDs in order to perform a jQuery operation like this ...
I am a mySQL noob, and have a slightly stupid question... I am using jquery to send form to a php script which then stores the data in a mySQL database. On another page in my app, I need to get all the values from one column of said mySQL DB, using jquery again (I assume I will also have to write another php script) so I can use the re...
Is there any built in support in jQuery for basic assertion checking, primarily of things like 'expected number of returned elements'. For instance I may have a simple statement like this : $("#btnSignup").click(function() { return validateForm(); ); Now theres plenty of reasons why $("#btnSignup") may not return exactly 1 ite...
Hi, I know I should spend more time researching this and having a go before asking the question but I've got just 2 weeks to build a site with a portal style homepage (much like http://www.bbc.co.uk). I'm fairly good with jQuery and have played with jQuery UI draggables in the past but I was wondering if there were any tutorials or bes...
I'm placing content on my page through an ajax (post) request like so: $("input#ViewMore").click(function() { var data = { before: oldestDate, threadId: 1 }; $.post("/Message/More", data,function(html) { $('tbody#posts').prepend(html); return false; }, "html"); return false; }); with th...