I have an event listener on all textboxes. When a textbox is clicked, I'd like to open a keyboard. On Enter of the keyboard I'd then like to use the id of the textbox which called it to do some logic. However the id (txtbxId in code) just becomes the first textbox I click, then the second textbox I click in an array.
E.g, the alert becomes 'textbox1' - after second textbox click alert is 'textbox1' 'textbox2'
I've tried to force the variable id to '', to delete it etc. to no avail,
Code snippet here:
$('.textbox').click(function() {
var txtbxId = this.id;
$("#Keyboard").show();
$(document).on('keydown', function(e) {
if (e.which === 13) {
alert(txtbxId);
}
});
});
});
The issue is because you're nesting events. Therefore as well as duplicating the keydown event when a click event happens, you're supplying each individual id to those events.
To fix this, use a single event handler for all the .textbox elements, and read their own id from the reference to the element which raised the event which is available through the this keyword:
$('.textbox').click(function() {
$("#Keyboard").show();
});
$(document).on('keydown', '.textbox', function(e) {
if (e.which === 13) {
alert(this.id);
}
});
The problem is that your on('keydown') function the first time you click a textbox never gets unassigned, so for every time you click a .textbox, you're making a NEW keydown callback, but not removing your old ones.
I would recommend making an object outside of your onClick callback which manages .keydown callbacks, so that you only have one at any time.
Something like this:
window.keydownmanager = {
init: () => {
$(document).on('keydown', function (e) {
window.keydownmanager.callback(e);
});
},
callback: () => {},
setCallback: (cb) => {
window.keydownmanager.callback = cb;
}
}
And inside your onClick callback, do this:
var txtbxId = this.id;
$("#Keyboard").show();
window.keydownmanager.setCallback(function(e) {
if (e.which === 13) {
alert(txtbxId);
}
})
Using Selectize.js, I'm trying to initialize the dynamically pre-select one of the item of the list without triggering the onItemAdd event. In the following code, the event is triggered even if the silent parameter is truthy:
$(function () {
$('select').selectize({
onItemAdd: function () {
alert("Add item");
}
});
// this triggers an the event
$('select')[0].selectize.addItem('2', true);
});
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zuzat0dc/1/
According to the documentation:
addItem(value, silent): "Selects" an item. Adds it to the list at the current caret position. If "silent" is truthy, no change event will be fired on the original input.
Any idea how to avoid triggering the onItemAdd event? Is the silent parameter b0rked or should I use the change event instead?
A quick fix that worked for me was to keep a state flag and refer to it in the event handler...
$(function () {
var initialising = true;
$('select').selectize({
onItemAdd: function () {
if(!initialising) {
alert("Add item");
}
}
});
// this triggers an the event
$('select')[0].selectize.addItem('2', true);
initialising = false;
});
The silent parameter in addItem(value, silent) affects only to the fact whether or not the change event. You can't avoid item_add event with silent = true.
The only thing that worked for me was to store item_add event locally, remove it from selectize instance and set it back after I added the item:
onItemAdd: function(val) {
var e = this._events['item_add'];
delete this._events['item_add'];
this.addItem(123);
this._events['item_add'] = e;
}
I was wondering if there is a way for a function to check if it was triggered by the onClick method?
function check(id) {
if(onClick()) {
alert('thanks for clicking!');
}
}
I've tried to find this but I can't seem to come across anything.
Thanks!
Try this, this will give the type of event occured. Then you can match whether it was click or mousemove or mousedown or anything
<body onclick="eventType(event)">
function eventType(event)
{
alert(event.type); // if you want to check for click then use if(event.type=='click')
}
If your function is used a callback for an event somewhere, it will get the event object as an argument. So you simple check if event.type is "click".
function check(e) {
if (e.type == "click") {
alert("Thanks for clicking me!");
}
}
var button = document.getElementById("a_button");
button.onclick = check;
Once I've fired an evt.preventDefault(), how can I resume default actions again?
As per commented by #Prescott, the opposite of:
evt.preventDefault();
Could be:
Essentially equating to 'do default', since we're no longer preventing it.
Otherwise I'm inclined to point you to the answers provided by another comments and answers:
How to unbind a listener that is calling event.preventDefault() (using jQuery)?
How to reenable event.preventDefault?
Note that the second one has been accepted with an example solution, given by redsquare (posted here for a direct solution in case this isn't closed as duplicate):
$('form').submit( function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
//later you decide you want to submit
$(this).unbind('submit').submit()
});
function(evt) {evt.preventDefault();}
and its opposite
function(evt) {return true;}
cheers!
To process a command before continue a link from a click event in jQuery:
Eg: Click me
Prevent and follow through with jQuery:
$('a.myevent').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
// Do my commands
if( myEventThingFirst() )
{
// then redirect to original location
window.location = this.href;
}
else
{
alert("Couldn't do my thing first");
}
});
Or simply run window.location = this.href; after the preventDefault();
OK ! it works for the click event :
$("#submit").click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
// -> block the click of the sumbit ... do what you want
// the html click submit work now !
$("#submit").unbind('click').click();
});
event.preventDefault(); //or event.returnValue = false;
and its opposite(standard) :
event.returnValue = true;
source:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/returnValue
I had to delay a form submission in jQuery in order to execute an asynchronous call. Here's the simplified code...
$("$theform").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var $this = $(this);
$.ajax('/path/to/script.php',
{
type: "POST",
data: { value: $("#input_control").val() }
}).done(function(response) {
$this.unbind('submit').submit();
});
});
I would suggest the following pattern:
document.getElementById("foo").onsubmit = function(e) {
if (document.getElementById("test").value == "test") {
return true;
} else {
e.preventDefault();
}
}
<form id="foo">
<input id="test"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
...unless I'm missing something.
http://jsfiddle.net/DdvcX/
This is what I used to set it:
$("body").on('touchmove', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
});
And to undo it:
$("body").unbind("touchmove");
There is no opposite method of event.preventDefault() to understand why you first have to look into what event.preventDefault() does when you call it.
Underneath the hood, the functionality for preventDefault is essentially calling a return false which halts any further execution. If you’re familiar with the old ways of Javascript, it was once in fashion to use return false for canceling events on things like form submits and buttons using return true (before jQuery was even around).
As you probably might have already worked out based on the simple explanation above: the opposite of event.preventDefault() is nothing. You just don’t prevent the event, by default the browser will allow the event if you are not preventing it.
See below for an explanation:
;(function($, window, document, undefined)) {
$(function() {
// By default deny the submit
var allowSubmit = false;
$("#someform").on("submit", function(event) {
if (!allowSubmit) {
event.preventDefault();
// Your code logic in here (maybe form validation or something)
// Then you set allowSubmit to true so this code is bypassed
allowSubmit = true;
}
});
});
})(jQuery, window, document);
In the code above you will notice we are checking if allowSubmit is false. This means we will prevent our form from submitting using event.preventDefault and then we will do some validation logic and if we are happy, set allowSubmit to true.
This is really the only effective method of doing the opposite of event.preventDefault() – you can also try removing events as well which essentially would achieve the same thing.
Here's something useful...
First of all we'll click on the link , run some code, and than we'll perform default action. This will be possible using event.currentTarget Take a look. Here we'll gonna try to access Google on a new tab, but before we need to run some code.
Google
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#link").click(function(e) {
// Prevent default action
e.preventDefault();
// Here you'll put your code, what you want to execute before default action
alert(123);
// Prevent infinite loop
$(this).unbind('click');
// Execute default action
e.currentTarget.click();
});
});
</script>
None of the solutions helped me here and I did this to solve my situation.
<a onclick="return clickEvent(event);" href="/contact-us">
And the function clickEvent(),
function clickEvent(event) {
event.preventDefault();
// do your thing here
// remove the onclick event trigger and continue with the event
event.target.parentElement.onclick = null;
event.target.parentElement.click();
}
I supose the "opposite" would be to simulate an event. You could use .createEvent()
Following Mozilla's example:
function simulateClick() {
var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
evt.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
var cb = document.getElementById("checkbox");
var cancelled = !cb.dispatchEvent(evt);
if(cancelled) {
// A handler called preventDefault
alert("cancelled");
} else {
// None of the handlers called preventDefault
alert("not cancelled");
}
}
Ref: document.createEvent
jQuery has .trigger() so you can trigger events on elements -- sometimes useful.
$('#foo').bind('click', function() {
alert($(this).text());
});
$('#foo').trigger('click');
This is not a direct answer for the question but it may help someone. My point is you only call preventDefault() based on some conditions as there is no point of having an event if you call preventDefault() for all the cases. So having if conditions and calling preventDefault() only when the condition/s satisfied will work the function in usual way for the other cases.
$('.btnEdit').click(function(e) {
var status = $(this).closest('tr').find('td').eq(3).html().trim();
var tripId = $(this).attr('tripId');
if (status == 'Completed') {
e.preventDefault();
alert("You can't edit completed reservations");
} else if (tripId != '') {
e.preventDefault();
alert("You can't edit a reservation which is already attached to a trip");
}
//else it will continue as usual
});
jquery on() could be another solution to this. escpacially when it comes to the use of namespaces.
jquery on() is just the current way of binding events ( instead of bind() ). off() is to unbind these. and when you use a namespace, you can add and remove multiple different events.
$( selector ).on("submit.my-namespace", function( event ) {
//prevent the event
event.preventDefault();
//cache the selector
var $this = $(this);
if ( my_condition_is_true ) {
//when 'my_condition_is_true' is met, the binding is removed and the event is triggered again.
$this.off("submit.my-namespace").trigger("submit");
}
});
now with the use of namespace, you could add multiple of these events and are able to remove those, depending on your needs.. while submit might not be the best example, this might come in handy on a click or keypress or whatever..
you can use this after "preventDefault" method
//Here evt.target return default event (eg : defult url etc)
var defaultEvent=evt.target;
//Here we save default event ..
if("true")
{
//activate default event..
location.href(defaultEvent);
}
You can always use this attached to some click event in your script:
location.href = this.href;
example of usage is:
jQuery('a').click(function(e) {
location.href = this.href;
});
In a Synchronous flow, you call e.preventDefault() only when you need to:
a_link.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
if( conditionFailed ) {
e.preventDefault();
// return;
}
// continue with default behaviour i.e redirect to href
});
In an Asynchronous flow, you have many ways but one that is quite common is using window.location:
a_link.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
e.preventDefault(); // prevent default any way
const self = this;
call_returning_promise()
.then(res => {
if(res) {
window.location.replace( self.href );
}
});
});
You can for sure make the above flow synchronous by using async-await
this code worked for me to re-instantiate the event after i had used :
event.preventDefault(); to disable the event.
event.preventDefault = false;
I have used the following code. It works fine for me.
$('a').bind('click', function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
});
I'm not the best at this jquery stuff. But I'm trying to seperate the action from the function so I can apply multiple events that cause the same function. Unfortunately this isn't working. Anyone know why?
Updated Function, but still errors
$(document).ready(function() {
var $info_items = jQuery('.checkbox.has_info, .has_info');
$info_items.click(function(event) {
$(this).show_text(event);
});
// I suspect it has something to do with this initalizer of the function here
jQuery.fn.show_text = function(event){
var $info_item = jQuery(this);
$info_items.filter(function(index){
return $(".hidden_text").css("display","block");
}).not($info_item).parent().next().next().hide("slow");
$info_item.parent().next().next().show("fast");
});
});
What is e, the event? You need to name the event argument to the click() function to use it. Also, to invoke show_text such that it has a this, you need to invoke it on an element:
$info_items.click(function (event) {
// 'this' is the element in $info_items which was clicked
// invoke show_text on the element in question
$(this).show_text(event);
});
You also have an extra ) on your final }); line.
You can use jQuery bind to attach several events to a single function.
$('#whatever').bind('mouseover focus click', function() {
your_custom_function();
});
Are you looking for something like this?
var handle = function(event) {
$(event.currentTarget).show_text(event);
};
$info_items.bind('click blur', handle);