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Javascript string.slice() with negative values

I am trying to hide or show divs based on the title of the page. This is only required because I can't figure out a better way of passing a value into the page.
Here's the current code in the HTML file:
function toggle(divId) {
var divArray = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
for(i = 0; i < divArray.length; i++){
if(divArray[i].id == divId){
if(divArray[i].style.display != 'none'){
divArray[i].style.display = 'none';
}else{
divArray[i].style.display = '';
}
}
}
}
function togglePayLink() {
var h1Array = document.getElementsByTagName("h1");
for(i = 0; i < h1Array.length; i++){
if(h1Array[i].id == 'Title'){
var title = h1Array[i].innerHTML;
title = title.slice(1);
title = title.slice(-4);
toggle('descr'+ title);
}
}
}
Also in the HTML file is a header with the page title. The %%GLOBAL_PageTitle%% is replaced in server side code that I don't have access to. However, the values will be "$100 Fee" (with different numbers).
<h1 id="Title" class="TitleHeading">%%GLOBAL_PageTitle%%</h1>
Finally, I have a set of hidden divs with id's in the format descr + a number, so if the page title is "$100 Fee" I want to show the div with the id "descr100".
<div id="descr100" style="display:none;width: 75%;"></div>
When the script above runs, I get no error (I'm using chrome's console), but the div does not show. I know the toggle function works because it was previously being used with only a single div on the page that had to be toggled. I wrote the togglePayLink function, which I assume is the issue, but I have no idea how to debug this. I was wondering if the dollar sign in the title could be causing issues, but I would think I would get an error if that were the case.
EDIT: Changed the togglePayLink function to use var instead of string, but I'm getting a typeError when slice() is called.

Going forward, you should probably just assign a unique class to the page using %%GLOBAL_PageTitle%%. This way you can show/hide elements using CSS.
<div class="page %%GLOBAL_PageTitle%%">
For pages that BigCommerce doesn't give access to the HTML of the h1 for each individual page (ex. Web Pages, Account, Cart), I usually run this script on page load to strip the page title of spaces and other characters, and assign a specific class to the page element.
var catName = $('.TitleHeading').text();
var catName = catName.replace(/ /g, '');
var catName = catName.replace(/'/g, '');
var catName = catName.replace(/&/g, '');
var catName = $.trim(catName);
$('.page').addClass(''+catName+'');
The way your doing it seems a bit over the top, but if it was setup this way by someone else, I understand.

The problem is here:
String title = h1Array[i].innerHTML;
In Javascript, all variables are set with var (except for functions, which can be set other ways). So it would be:
var title = h1Array[i].innerHTML;
Additionally, you probably have to define it outside the for loop, in which case you would omit the "var" when you are setting it in the for loop:
<script language="javascript">
var title;
function togglePayLink() {
var h1Array = document.getElementsByTagName("h1");
for(i = 0; i < h1Array.length; i++){
if(h1Array[i].id == 'Title'){
title = h1Array[i].innerHTML;
title = title.slice(1);
title = title.slice(-4);
toggle('descr'+ title);
}
}
}
</script>
Edit: If you only use it in the for loop, but use it in different iterations, then I'm not sure if it can be defined locally. I'd still define it globally, though.

title.slice(-4) was giving me the last four digits of the string instead of everything before the last four digits like I thought it would. toggling the non-existent 'descrFee' div was not doing anything.

Determining a character of a sentence when clicked on

On a random break I found myself wondering if it would be possible to use jQuery to determine a single character within a sentence when it is clicked on.
For example:
This
When the user clicks on first h, jQuery would return this to me.
The only way I could think of doing this would be to wrap each character within the sentence in a span with a class of its letter such as the following example:
<span class="clickable T">T</span>
<span class="clickable h">h</span>
<span class="clickable i">i</span>
<span class="clickable s">s</span>
Followed by a $('.clickable').click(function()) that would return its second class.
My question is: is this the most efficient way to do this?

Obviously wrapping every single letter of the document in span tags is not efficient.
I was able to spin something up that works in Chrome at least. Basically, when you click on a letter, it then triggers a double clicks which selects the word. We get the selection which actually gives us the text of the entire target element. From that, we get the letter that was clicked. We remove the selection and do what we want with the letter.
Fiddle here
$(function(){
$(document).click(function(e){
var target = e.target;
$(target).dblclick();
}).dblclick(function(){
var selection,
node,
text,
start,
end,
letter;
if (window.getSelection) {
selection = document.getSelection();
node = selection.anchorNode;
if (node.nodeType === 3) {
text = node.data;
start = selection.baseOffset;
end = selection.extentOffet;
if (!isNaN(start)) {
letter = text.substr(start, 1);
}
}
window.getSelection().removeAllRanges()
} else if(document.selection) {
//continue work here
}
if (letter) {
alert(letter);
}
});
});

You could return the innerHTML as well with:
$('.clickable').on('click', function(){
alert($(this).html());
});
As for a more efficient way to do it...maybe try this:
in Javascript/jQuery, how to check a specific part of a string and determine if it is a whitespace or letter?

You can do it with this script
$('.clickable').on('click', function(){
var html = $(this).text(); // if you want the text inside the span
var index = $(this).index(); // if you want the position among siblings
var classes = $(this).attr('class').split(" ");
var secondClass = getSecondClass(classes);
});
function getSecondClass(classArray){
if(classArray.length<2){
return null;
}else{
return classArray[1];
}
}
I've also included the html and index variables if you want to do something else with the clicked element.
Basically you split the classes of the element by spaces and then check if the array has less than two elements, in that case it returns null, otherwise it returns the second element.
jsFiddle

Well wrapping all text dyanamically with span tag , it is possible what you were looking for
JS
$(function(){
var lengthText = $('#singlecharacter').text().length;
var textValue = $('#singlecharacter').text();
var textArray = textValue.split('');
var newText = new Array();
for (var i = lengthText - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
newText[i] = "<span class='sp'>"+textArray[i]+"</span>";
};
$('#singlecharacter').html(newText);
$('.sp').click(function()
{
alert($(this).text());
});
});
HTML
<div id='singlecharacter'>THIS</div>
DEMO JSFIDDLE

Javascript efficient approach for changing inner dom elements of a list item

I have a unordered list with 12 list items inside it
<ul class="rb-grid" id="list">
<li class="view view-fifth">
<div class="mask">
<h2>Article Name</h2>
<p>Brief</p>
Read More
</div>
</li>
...
...
</ul>
Now what i want is that on page load i have to change the content of these h2 and p tags, now while i can do this by hardcoding every list item, but can anyone tell me a better way to make all changes at once by using javascript or jquery anything....
Now i found something like this in dojo , this will make clear what i want actually -
var items = registry.byId("list").getChildren();
array.forEach(items, function(item, idx) {
item.onClick = function(evt) {
};
});
I want to do some such thing to change the contents of the h2 and the p tags inside every list items

Try this: (jquery)
var lis = $('.rb-grid').children('li');
for(var i = 0; i < lis.length : i++){
$(lis).eq(i).find('p').html("change to something");
$(lis).eq(i).find('h2').html("change to something");
}

js
var x =$('.rb-grid').children('li');
x.find('p').html('change to something');
x.find('h2').html('change to something');

A non jquery way:
var ee = document.getElementById('list').getElementsByTagName('li');
for(i=0; i<ee.length; i++) {
ee[i].getElementsByTagName('h2')[0].textContent = "hello world";
ee[i].getElementsByTagName('p')[0].textContent = "article 2";
}
EDIT: It seems IE previous to IE9 does not have textContent and should use innerText instead. Thanks Mr_Green!

Here for comparison is a more idiomatic jQuery version of Mr_Green's answer:
$('.rb-grid').children('li').each( function( i, element ) {
var $element = $(element);
$element.find('p').html("change to something");
$element.find('h2').html("change to something");
});
OTOH, you may not even need the loop, depending on what you're doing. If you just want to change all the relevant nested p and h2 elements to the same value, then Tushar Gupta's answer is a simpler way to do it.

How to remove duplicated content/value with jQuery

So, i have span element where i appending some content - sometimes this content is duplicated. How to remove this one value which is duplicate of another ...
This is how looks like my output html:
<span class="some_class">
"value01"
"value01"
"value02"
"value03"
"value03"
</span>
I can't add any function because i have no idea how to do this, can u help me?

If these values are being added by JS code, then You can make sth like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/Sahadar/Nzs52/5/
You just have to make object which will store all strings placed inside this span, then just before insertion check if this inserted string is already in store object.
function(event) {
var textareaValue = textarea.value();
if(insertedTexts[textareaValue]) {
event.preventDefault();
textarea.value('');
} else {
insertedTexts[textareaValue] = true;
someSpan.append("\""+textareaValue+"\"");
}
}
If these values are already inside span, use function as follows:
var someSpan = $('.some_class');
var insertedTexts = [];
var result = someSpan.text().match(/"\w+(?=\")/gm);
result = result.map(function(value) {
return value.substring(1,value.length);
});
result.forEach(function(value) {
if(insertedTexts.indexOf(value) === -1) {
insertedTexts.push(value);
}
});
var newSpanText = "\""+insertedTexts.join('""')+"\"";
someSpan.text(newSpanText);
console.info(result, insertedTexts);
It's rebuilding span text (trimming etc.) but main functinality is preserved.
jsFiddle working copy:
http://jsfiddle.net/Sahadar/kKNXG/6/

Create an array variable
var vals = [];
which keeps track of the items. Then, in your function that appends items to the span check:
if (vals.indexOf("Mynewvalue") > -1) {
// Add to the span...
}

Javascript - get text between <li> by ID

I'm trying to write some javascript that will grab the inner text of li elements (1-16) and put them into hidden fields.
var myValue9 = document.getElementById("fileName9").value;
oForm.elements["fileName9"].value = myValue9;
<input name="fileName9" type="hidden" id="fileName9" />
<li id="wavName9"> Some Text </li>
How do I return the text in between the <li> and put into the hidden field?

Simple JavaScript:
document.getElementById("fileName9").value = document.getElementById("wavName9").innerText;
You could, in this case, also use innerHTML but that would also give you the HTML the element contains.

LI tags don't have a .value property. Using plain javascript, you could do it this way:
oForm.elements["fileName9"].value = document.getElementById("wavName9").innerHTML;
Or, to do all of them from 1 to 16, you could use this loop:
for (var i = 1; i <= 16; i++) {
oForm.elements["fileName" + i].value = document.getElementById("wavName" + i).innerHTML;
}
Or since you also tagged your post for jQuery, using jQuery you could do it like this:
$("#fileName9").val($("#wavName9").text());
Or, to do all of them from 1 to 16:
for (var i = 1; i <= 16; i++) {
$("#fileName" + i).val($("#wavName" + i).text());
}

Use jQuery to do it.
var myvar = $("#wavName9").html()

I think this will do in for all li's
$("li[id^=wavName]").each(function(){
var $this = $(this);
$this.closest("input[id^=fileName]").val($this.text())
});

Create your li's with id's following such a structure: listitem-n, where n is 1-16 and input fields following the same structure hiddeninputs-n (n = 1-16)
using jfriend00's code, add it in a loop that will traverse 16 times, incrementing a count variable that you will use to transfer the data from list items to hidden inputs
var count = 0;
for( i=0; i < 16; i++){
count ++;
$("form #hiddeninput-"+count).val($("#listitem-"+count).text());
}
Better validate the code, but there's the general idea.
You could also create the hidden fields in javascript from scratch, which would make the code abit more stable IMO as there's less chances of a hidden field missing in the form when the js is executed.

Using jQuery:
$('#fileName9').val($('#wavName9').text());
Note that you can change .text() to .html() to return the HTML structure rather than just the text.
You could automate this for multiple <li>'s like so:
$('li[id^="wavName"]').each(function () {
var number = this.id.replace('waveName', '');
$('#fileName' + number).val($(this).text());
});
This selects all <li>'s who's id starts with "wavName" and stores the text within the <li> tag in the hidden input who's id starts with "fileName" and ends with the same integer as the <li> tag.