I have been learning JavaScript for a week and because I already have some knowledge in CSS and HTML I was trying to make a simple page with an option to change the body's background picture by pressing a button. I know how to do that by getting the body as a variable. However, I know how to do 'document.getElementByTagName', but I work with Master Pages, which means there is no body tag at the beginning of the HTML code. What could I do to work around that?
document.querySelector('body') // will take the first catch of a tag
document.querySelector('.class') // will take the first catch of a class
document.querySelector('#id') // will get the exact id
document.querySelector('[name="first_name"]') // will get the first catch of a custom or existing property as name
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Im very new to this and have reviewed other posts similar to this question. However, I'm finding that those solutions don't work for me.
Background: I'm working in Wix's Velo platform for Javascript. (forgive me if that's not the right technical terminology here)
My goal: When my website home page loads, I want one of the text boxes on the page (#text45) to NOT be visible until 5 seconds have passed. Then, when box #text45 is visible, I want another plain box (#box2) to turn to hidden.
I have found some examples like the one below: (not all code has been pasted and I realize some elements like div1 would need to change to my specific element names)
document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility = "visible";
}
setTimeout("showIt()", 5000);
However, I get an error code: Cannot find name 'document'. Do you need to change your target library? Try changing the 'lib' compiler option to include 'dom'.
When researching this, I found out that Velo cannot access the dom and elements can only be accessed via "$w".
Would someone be kind enough to set me in the right direction on how to accomplish the "goal" above? I would really appreciate it! Thank you in advance.
Here's how you would do it. Note, that it's good practice to change the IDs of your elements to more descriptive names, but I've stuck with the names you provided in your question.
Start by setting #text45 to hidden in using the Properties & Events panel.
Then use this code (note that your page might already have an onReady. If it's there an you're not using it yet, delete all the code on the page and replace it with this):
$w.onReady( () => {
setTimeout(() => {
$w('#text45').show();
$w('#box2').hide();
}, 5000)
} );
This is a page I'm currently working on as a project
$(function() {
$(".modal-launcher, #modal-background").click(function() {
$(".modal-content, #modal-background").toggleClass("active");
$(".vid-1i").attr("src", "link1");
$(".vid-2i").attr("src", "link2");
$(".vid-3i").attr("src", "link3");
$(".vid-4i").attr("src", "link4");
$(".vid-5i").attr("src", "link5");
$(".vid-6i").attr("src", "link6");
$(".vid-7i").attr("src", "link7");
$(".vid-8i").attr("src", "link8");
//$('html').toggleClass('active').css('top', -(document.documentElement.scrollTop) + 'px');//
});
});
above the actual links are replaced just to display a quick idea of the bad jQuery.
In it, I am attempting to create my own popup launcher for videos; however, I am having trouble using jQuery to replace the "" src of an iframe element to a YouTube link. I am unable to figure out why the jQuery is not working. I understand that the jQuery is, of course, working properly, and that it is me who has written the code incorrectly, but here I am asking if anyone is able to figure out what it is I've done wrong, or what can be changed to make it work.
For some reason, the last video in the jQuery list is always the one retrieved.
Understand that the images are missing from the page due to them being local files and not network locations. Clicking above the captions that read like "Match One" will have the "intended" result, regardless if the image is showing or not.
Coming back to this and understanding more of JavaScript and jQuery, my problem was simply misunderstanding the code. In order to do something like this, one function per link would be more suitable.
function video1()
{
$("#popup, #modal-background").toggleClass("active");
$("#popup").prop("src", "https://www.youtube.com/embed/7h1s15n74r3all1nk");
document.getElementById('scroll').style.cssText ='overflow:hidden';
}
complementary html would look like this:
<div onclick="video1()"></div>
The previous code would run each line, effectively setting the last link as the source of the element. The new code is button independent, ensuring only one link belongs to each button.
I'm making my own WYSIWYG. I've got two buttons: "Visualize" and Show Source.
I've got an iframe (rich text editor) that contains a huge piece of HTML code. First time it's loaded it shows all the elements visually. Once Show Source is pressed the innerHTML text (of the visualized html) is shown. But how can I make the HTML text visual again, when the Visualize button is pressed?
content.document.body.innerText holds the HTML that needs to be visualized.
(content = id of the iframe)
$('#Visualize').click(function()
{
// Make HTML visible
});
With the html code that you already have you and to show a preview in a div, correct? Just use the html function.
$('#Visualize').click(function(){
$('#myShowDiv').html(content.document.body.innerText);
});
If you're using an iframe and that iframe is only intended to hold the actual page source being edited, then you're going to need variables on your parent frame that hold the actual source. I would recommend keeping it separate and then use the following to perform switches:
var actualSource = content.document.body.innerHTML;
// just something to initialize it
// You should probably keep it in a global object instead of as a var
$('#Visualize').click(function()
{
actualSource = content.document.body.innerText;
content.document.body.innerHTML = "";
content.document.body.innerHTML= actualSource;
});
I would imagine that you have methods that are capturing the source, but I would imagine you'd want to capture the actual source as it is at that moment. I'm not sure what you're doing with the actual editing piece (is it a div that is editable? is it a text area?), but in order to perform the showing, it should just be a matter of toggling the innerHTML and innerText between the two settings. The real catch will be monitoring the actual controls affected by this change.
So, I have this pretty complex ajax thing going.
It loads new html (including div tags and all) to show up on the page.
I included a 'more' link to load additional data.
This more link links to my javascript function. The 'more' link is located in a div, which I gave a unique id. The next time the load function is called, I use document.getElementById(the id).style.display="none"; to "remove" this div from the look of the page.
I set error traps for this, the div with that id is found without problems, but javascript fails to change my style property.
I tested alert(document.getElementById(the id).innerHTML); and that worked without problems - hence the title of the question.
So, does anyone have any ideas/do I need to offer more information? The main problem is that it doesn't throw any errors anywhere, yet it fails to complete the task I asked...
Here's a bit of code to go with it -
try
{
var myidthing = "morelink" + ContentStart.toString(); //the id is correct
var div = document.getElementById(myidthing);
if (!div)
{
}
else
{
div.style.display="none"; //this doesn't work, but doesn't raise an error
alert(div.innerHTML); //this works without problem
}
}
catch(theerr)
{
alert(theerr);
}
------------------------->EDIT<-------------------------
I'm incredibly sorry if I upset any people.
I'm also angry at myself, for it was a stupid thing in my code. Basically, I had a variable that stored the contents of a parent div. Then I (succesfully) removed the div using the removeChild() method. Then my code pasted the contents of that vaiable (including the div I wanted gone) back into the parent div.
I switched around the order and it works fine now.
Again, excuse me for this.
Throwing out a few ideas of things to look for:
You said the div is generated by javascript. Is it possible the div you are targeting is not the one you think you are? It could be you are targeting another div, which is already hidden, or obstructed... or maybe the innerHTML you are displaying goes with a different element than the one you intend to target. Put an alert or script breakpoint in the if(!div) case, also, and see if it's going down that path.
If the above code is only a stripped-down version of your actual code, check your actual code for typos (for example: style.display = "none;";)
Using the FireBug plugin for FireFox, inspect the target element after the operation completes, and make sure that the display: none appears in the style information. If not, use FireBug's debugger to walk through your javascript, and see if you can figure out why.
Use FireBug to break on all script errors, in case there is another error causing this behavior.
Try empty quotes instead of 'none' and see if that works?:
document.getElementById('element_id').style.display="";
Failing that, don't change the style, just add a class which hides the element.
Using jquery, I currently append html to a div on a click event. The following code allows me to fade in only the appended portion of the div:
var html = "..";
$('<div></div>').appendTo("#id").hide().append(html).fadeIn('slow');
This portion works perfectly. But how can I later remove (fade out) only the appended portion? I tried hacking this by storing the html prior to the appending, and then simply hiding everything and showing the stored html. But this does not work well when the same procedure is reused for several divs on the same page (and this seems like poor implementation). Is there a good way to do this?
Just to give an idea of why I need this: Think of a blog type page where for every article on the page there are several comments with only x amount showing by default: the click event fetches the remaining comments and displays them, and then toggling the button again removes the appended comments and sends it back to the original state.
empty() is always an option
jQuery('#main').empty();
Give a look at the empty() function.
It might better solve the problem. Here's the link http://api.jquery.com/empty/
I'd just set and clear the html with '.html()' ...
-- edit
to be more clear, have an area layed out specifically for the addition of these comments:
<div id='commentarea1'></div>
etc.
Try:
var html = "..";
$('<div></div>').appendTo("#id").hide().append(html).fadeIn('slow').addClass('appended');
then later
$('#id .appended').fadeOut('slow'); // or whatever you want to do.
It is not that clear from the question but say you show 5 comments by default and then show x more comments. To get back to the original 5 comment default state you can remove all comments with an index greater than 4 (zero based).
The following assumes each comment goes inside its own div that has a class comment.
$('#id>div.comment:gt(4)').remove();