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Set index parameter for Algolia instant search product

Currently I am working with Algolia autocomplete search template - please see documentation here and Magento 2.
I want to add index number to each product appeared dynamically when using search input field. It can be added as a dataset attribute. Please see below code and place marked as data-index="INDEX_NUMBER_HERE".
Attribute 'index' should be equal to the search position number. So if in my search results I have 6 products then the first product should has data-index="1", the second one data-index="2" and so on until the last one with data-index="6"
I know that I can add extra JavaScript code here but maybe someone knows how to do that based on some {{AlgoliaIndexVariable}} same as I can fetch in my example {{objectID}}, {{url}}, etc.?
This is my current template:
<script type="text/template" id="autocomplete_products_template">
<a class="algoliasearch-autocomplete-hit" id="productAlgoliaSearch_{{objectID}}" href="{{url}}">
{{#thumbnail_url}}
<div class="thumb">img here</div>
{{/thumbnail_url}}
<div class="info">
product info here
</div>
<div class="data" data-index="INDEX_NUMBER_HERE"></div>
</a>
</script>
many thanks for useful tips

The template does expose variable called __hitIndex but it's zero based. You can't increment it directly from the template. You can increment it in JavaScript though. You can use the __hitIndex for the data-index and increment it at the time you retrieve it.

Creating IMG Tag With JavaScript, Not Working

Through ArrowChat Javascript API, I'm trying to make avatars show in chat user tabs, that is "on the bar itself", besides in the buddy list and chat window.
I'm editing chat_tab.php (below) for this, starting with a sample static No-Avatar image, and next, I'll try to implement ArrowChat Javascript API functions.
<div class="arrowchat_inner_button" id="chattab_inner">
<div style="float:left" class="arrowchat_username_message">'+shortname+'</div>
</div>
All I want to know for now is that if there's something wrong with this script, as it doesn't seem to work.
Here's the code:
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function(){var elem=document.createElement("elem");
elem.src= "/press/chat/admin/images/img-no-avatar.gif";
elem.height="32"; elem.width="32"; document.getElementById("chattab_inner").appendChild(elem);}
</script>
Next, I should replace img-no-avatar.gif with the user avatar path, which is getUser(data.a) according to the link above. That's the second in the row I don't know how. (You can preview ArrowChat chat bar at the bottom of the screen in the same page.)

The element you are created should be "img" not "elem"
you want the parameter for .createElement() to be the tag name of the element.
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function(){
var elem=document.createElement("img");
elem.src= "/press/chat/admin/images/img-no-avatar.gif";
elem.height="32";
elem.width="32";
document.getElementById("chattab_inner").appendChild(elem);
}
</script>

Dynamic Content Swap via AJAX

Only this much now: I'm creating a vcard design for myself. My motivation is to make it look as good as possible. I want to apply to a webdesign company with this vcard to get a professional education for webdesign.
I still have a lot to change till it completely fulfills in my requirements, but this is my current version of the design I just uploaded to get you an overview over the design.
So as you can see it's focused on retro, vintage, ribbons and scetch elements.
Right know I want to get rid of these jerking content refreshs. So I thought a dynamic content swap via ajax and jQuery would be the best way to do it.
I never did much with js or actually ajax.
I want to ask you guys about a solution you think benefits in my design. I was thinking about something smoothly.
The content which needs to be changed is placed in
<nav>
(...)
<ul class="ribbon s"><!--Following links got the class="ribbon b/p/l/k"-->
<li class="ribbon-content">Link</li>
<!--
?content=blog
?content=portfolio
?content=lebenslauf
?content=kontakt
-->
</ul>
(...)
</nav>
<section id="content">
<div class="con clearfix">
(...)
</div><!--An empty div for possibly swapping without touching the vintage paper thing -->
</section>
http://robert-richter.com/boilerplate/

for example use jquery.
first add jquery to your html. within the domready-event you can register click events on your ribbon-menue. on each click you load the div-content from the given link-url in the html-part.
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$.ready(function(){
$(".ribbon-content a").on("click", function(event){
event.preventDefault();
$(".con").load($(event.target).attr("href"), function(){
// add code after loading - for example change classes of menue
})
});
})
</script>
additionly you can the the browser-history to enable the prev- and next-buttons of the browser.

CSS/Javascript Lightbox

First I'll start with this: I am in no way shape or form a developer, coder etc etc. I'm just a graphic designer helping a friend with her website.
As of right now, I'm having issues linking up thumbnails to the full images on my lightbox call out - you can view the site at www.chrissybulakites.com
I noticed
With VOID:(0) being in every single one ... my thought process was that if I correspond 0 thumb with 0 full then 1 thumb with 1 full then 2 thumb wwith 2 full etc etc it would work .. it didn't.
Can somebody explain to me if I'm on the right path or what I can do to make this work.
Thanks
Rob

Have have two basic elements per image; the thumb and the full image. The thumb is using JavaScript to show and hide a div (kind of like a frame) to hold the full image.
The HTML on the page repeats itself a lot, you can probably solve your problem whilst removing some of the repetition. I'd keep all of your thumbs but on each one, add in a reference to the full image the thumb represents. As well as reducing repetition, it'll make it easier to update the page in the future as changing a thumb and main image is done in one place rather than two.
In the below I've added another part to the "onclick" to say update the src of 'frame' to be the full version of the thumb.
<img src="http://chrissybulakites.com/thumbnails/longshot_thumbnail.png" />
Then delete all of the large images except one, updating it so that the img tag has an ID of 'frame'
<div id="light" class="white_content"><img id='frame' src="http://chrissybulakites.com/images/longshot_full.png" /> <br />Actor Observor - Boston, MA Close</div>
<div id="fade" class="black_overlay"></div>
This will mean that as each thumb is clicked, it will do the light and fad bits it did before but it will also update the image being displayed.
Doing this for two images as a proof of concept I get this which works as expected:
<img src="http://chrissybulakites.com/thumbnails/longshot_thumbnail.png" />
<img src="http://chrissybulakites.com/thumbnails/actor_thumbnail.png" />
<div id="light" class="white_content"><img id='frame' src="http://chrissybulakites.com/images/longshot_full.png" /> <br />Actor Observor - Boston, MA Close</div>
<div id="fade" class="black_overlay"></div>

you need to give each full image div its own unique id like: id="image23". Then modify the onclick to refrence the corresponding id: onclick="document.getElementById('image23')...

The meaning of the function void() in JavaScript is "do nothing". This prevents it to load a new new page (or to open the thumbnail image).
onclick = "document.getElementById('light').style.display='block';
document.getElementById('fade').style.display='block' "
Says that when user clicks that item it will capture the element light and change the display to block it will also capture the element fade and change the display to block. The thing is all your images are wrapped in an element called "light" so the browser is opting to show the first one (instead of throwing an error).
There is plenty of fuzzy logic here.
Starting with the fact that you are loading all images (the high definition ones).
If you want my two cents (and you only want to get the results, as opposed to learn how JavaScript works) I would go with something like prettyPhoto that does it out of the box, in an easy and straightforward way and is well documented.
How to add prettyPhoto to your page?
Download the code and include both the Javascript and the CSS file's on your header.
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/prettyPhoto.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
<script src="js/jquery.prettyPhoto.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
Then put this code on your page
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("a[rel^='prettyPhoto']").prettyPhoto();
});
</script>
The docs say to put it on the bottom of the page but you (should) also put it on the header.
And then put the thumbnails with links to the actual images. PrettyPhoto will take care of everything else. Do note the rel="prettyPhoto[my_gal]"
<a href="img/full/1.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto[my_gal]" title="Caption 1">
<img src="images/thumbnails/t_1.jpg" width="60" height="60" alt="Red round shape" />
</a>
You can customize it further and should really read the manual here.

Better alternative to an iframe to display tab content?

I have a page with an iframe to feature the contents of the clicked tab. There are 3 tabs and 1 iframe. The sources of the contents relating to each tab clicked are formatted and coded in other html & css files.
What is another alternative to using an iframe, because I noticed that when the tab is clicked, it still shows the white background, similar to when a new page is loading?
Here's my code:
<div id="tabs">
<div id="overview">
<a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="toframe.html">Overviews</a>
</div>
<div id="gallery">
<a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="tawagpinoygallery.html">Gallery</a>
</div>
<div id="reviews">
<a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="trframe.html">Reviews</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="tabs-1">
<iframe src="toframe.html" name= "tabsa" width="95%" height="100%" frameborder="0">
</iframe>
</div>

The only alternative to using IFRAMEs to load dynamic content (after the page has loaded) is using AJAX to update a container on your web page. It's pretty elegant and usually faster than loading a full page structure into an IFRAME.
Ajax with JQuery (use this and you will be loved on SO; the AJAX functions are great and simple)
Ajax with Prototype
Ajax with MooTools
Standalone Ajax with Matt Kruse's AJAX toolbox (Used to use this, using JQuery today because I needed a framework)
AJAX with Dojo (Said to be fast, but AJAX is not as straightforward)

Another alternative is to use AJAX to load the content of a tab and use a div to display the content. I would suggest that using an existing Tab library might be an option rather than trying to solve all the problems associated with creating tabs.
Maybe the jQuery UI Tab might be helpful here if you like to try it.
EDIT: AJAX example with UI Tabs.
First, the HTML will look like this.
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><span>Overviews</span></li>
<li><span>Gallery</span></li>
<li><span>Reviews</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
Then make sure that you import the appropriate jQuery files:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
etc...
Then add the code to create the tabs:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#tabs").tabs();
});
</script>

There's an alternative to AJAX!
You can load ALL three possible contents into separate DIVs.
Then clicking on a tab will simply make the display attribute of the appropriate content's DIV "block" while making the other two DIVs' display property "none".
Cheap, easy, does not require AJAX costs for extra http request or for coding.
Mind you, AJAX is a better solution if the contents of the tabs will change dynamically based on other data as opposed to being known at the time the page loads.

You don't need script.
<ul><li>foo link<li>bar link</ul>
<div class="tab" id="foo">foo contents</div>
<div class="tab" id="bar">bar contents</div>
Plus this CSS, in most browsers: .tab:not(:target) { display: none !important; }, which defaults to all content visible if :target isn't supported (any modern browser supports it).
If you're showing content with script, always hide it with script. Let it degrade gracefully if that script doesn't run.

It's probably better to load in the content for each tab into DIVs on the same page and then switch the visibility of each DIV when a tab button is clicked using JavaScript and the CSS display property.
If you can't do that then iframe is probably the best solution. You can make the iframe background transparent, see below:
<iframe src="toframe.html" name= "tabsa" width="95%" height="100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
You would then need to add the following CSS to the BODY element using:
BODY { Background: transparent; }

The HTML iframe is to be used to include/display non-template content, such as a PDF file. It's considered bad practice when used for template content (i.e. HTML), in both the SEO and UX opinions.
In your case you just want to have a tabbed panel. This can be solved in several ways:
Have a bunch of links as tabs and a bunch of div's as tab contents. Initially only show the first tab content and hide all others using CSS display: none;. Use JavaScript to toggle between tabs by setting CSS display: block; (show) and display: none; (hide) on the tab content divs accordingly.
Have a bunch of links as tabs and one div as tab contents. Use Ajax to get the tab content asynchronously and use JavaScript to replace the current tab contents with the new content.
Have a bunch of links as tabs and one div as tab contents. Let each link send a different GET request parameter or pathinfo representing the clicked tab. Use server-side flow-control (PHP's if(), or JSP's <c:if>, etc) or include capabilities (PHP's include(), or JSP's <jsp:include>, etc) to include the desired tab content depending on the parameter/pathinfo.
When going for the JavaScript based approach, I can warmly recommend to adopt jQuery for this.

This is jQuery example that includes another html page into your document. This is much more SEO friendly than iframe. In order to be sure that the bots are not indexing the included page just add it to disallow in robots.txt
<html>
<header>
<script src="/js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript">
</header>
<body>
<div id='include-from-outside'></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$('#include-from-outside').load('http://example.com/included.html');
</script>
</body>
</html>
You could also include jQuery directly from Google: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/ - this means optional auto-inclusion of newer versions and some significant speed increase. Also, means that you have to trust them for delivering you just the jQuery ;)

As mentioned, you could use jQuery or another library to retrieve the contents of the HTML file and populate it into the div. Then you could even do a fancy fade to make it look all pretty.
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.get
Something along these lines:
$.get("toframe.html", function(data){
$("#tabs-1").html(data);
});
edit..
you could prepopulate or onclick you could do the get dynamically
$("#tabs a").click(function(){
var pagetoget = $(this).attr("href");
$.get...
})
If you prepopulate could have three containers instead of the one you have now, 2 hidden, 1 display, and the click functions will hide them all except for the one you want.
The get is less code though, easier time.