I want to make a HTML form where the user can edit a set of elements at once. The user has to be able to remove an element, edit element and add new elements. I'm using PHP (Laravel) as a backend and jQuery for the dynamic form.
My initial idea was do basically this:
<form id="bars">
#foreach($foo as $bar)
<input type="text" name="name[]" value="{{$bar->name}}" required>
<input type="color" name="color[]" value="{{$bar->color}}" required>
<input type="checkbox" name="completed[]"{{$bar->completed ? ' checked' : ''}}>
<span class="deleteRow"></span>
#endforeach
</form>
<div id="template" style="display:none;">
<input type="text" name="name[]" required>
<input type="color" name="color[]" required>
<input type="checkbox" name="completed[]"{{$bar->completed ? ' checked' : ''}}>
<span class="deleteRow"></span>
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
// Remove rows
$('form').on('click', '.deleteRow', function() {
$(this).closest('tr').remove();
});
// Clone new rows from template
$('#addRow').click(function() {
$('#template tr')
.clone()
.appendTo('#bars');
});
});
</script>
This is the Blade template from which I've removed all irrelevant code and styling. This approach uses the following concepts:
[] in the input names so that the POSTed data will be placed into an array. In processing I end up with three arrays name, color, and completed which will contain the POSTed data.
Existing elements are rendered server-side in the form by the Blade template
New rows are cloned from a 'form template' and added to the form when the user clicks the "new row" button.
This is quite simple, and works in most cases (I've used this before), but it does not work in this case because of a small thing: the checkboxes. Unchecked checkboxes will not be POSTed which means that in the completed[] array will be smaller in size than the other arrays and I have no way of checking which elements have the checkbox checked.
Now I could modify my JS in such a way that it keeps track of the indexes and explicitly inserts the index in every input name (so name[0], name[1], etc) but that approach is complicated by the fact that the form must be pre-filled with data and does not start out empty.
I can, instead of filling the data through the Blade template, let the JS handle that too (through a JSON API) but that also gets complicated fast because the JS now has to 'parse' the form template and fill in all the values.
What's the best practise to accomplish this in a clean way?
What I ended up with is the following:
<form id="bars">
#foreach($foo as $i => $bar)
<input type="hidden" name="id[{{$i}}]" value="{{$status->id}}">
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="name[{{$i}}]" value="{{$status->name}}" required>
<input type="color" name="color[{{$i}}]" value="{{$bar->color}}" required>
<input type="checkbox" name="completed[{{$i}}]"{{$bar->completed ? ' checked' : ''}}>
<span class="deleteRow"></span>
#endforeach
</form>
<div id="template" style="display:none;">
<input type="text" name="name[$i]" required>
<input type="color" name="color[$i]" required>
<input type="checkbox" name="completed[$i]"{{$bar->completed ? ' checked' : ''}}>
<span class="deleteRow"></span>
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
// Remove rows
$('form').on('click', '.deleteRow', function() {
$(this).closest('tr').remove();
});
// Clone new rows from template
$('#addRow').click(function() {
$('#template tr')
.clone()
.html(function(i, oldHTML) {
return oldHTML.replace(/\$i/g, $('#bars tr').length);
})
.appendTo('#bars');
});
});
</script>
This is mostly what #MagnusEriksson advised me to do (so thanks!) but solved in a slightly cleaner way by not having to keep a counter but simply using the number of rows inside the form as the index for the cloned rows.
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I am trying to get respective values of dynamically generated inputs. In other words, I have an X number of dynamically generated inputs; each of these inputs is bound to a button. With that being said, I would like the user to get alerted the dynamically generated input that is bound to the clicked button. What I have done so far does not sort this out and whatever button is clicked, only the first input's value is generated.
I have the following code - a dynamic input and a button:
<input type="hidden" id="job_id" name="jobIdName" value="{{ job_id }}"> // please note this input is dynamically generated....
<button name="get_id_name" class="get_id_class" id="get_id_id" >Show Id</button>
As for Jquery, I have done the following:
$('#get_id_id').each(function(index) {
$(this).click(function() {
var job_ids = $("[name='jobIdName']");
console.log('Job Ids -------------- : ' + job_ids);
});
});
The above code keeps generating only the first generated input value? Any ideas or suggestions?
I have seen some posts that might seem similar to this one but they are very old; also I am looking for a more modern implementation.
Add your "input tag" into div:
var counter = 0;
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#get_id_id").click(function() {
var divChildren = $(".job_ids").children();
if(counter < divChildren.length){
if(counter == '0'){
console.log($(divChildren).eq(0).val());
}else{
console.log($(divChildren).eq(counter).val());
}
counter++;
}
});
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class ="job_ids">
<input type="hidden" name="jobIdName" value="Test01">
<input type="hidden" name="jobIdName" value="Test02">
<input type="hidden" name="jobIdName" value="Test03">
<input type="hidden" name="jobIdName" value="Test04">
<input type="hidden" name="jobIdName" value="Test05">
</div>
<button name="get_id_name" class="get_id_class" id="get_id_id" >Show Id</button>
I need help with this. I need to make the value in the other place change all the time while user session is active. How can I get the value from a span and make other value in a data change?
Look at there!
1 <div class="pt-uea-container">
2 <span class="pt-uea-currency pt-uea-currency-before"> € </span>
3 <input type="text" class="pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount" autocomplete="off" name="pt_items[1][amount]" id="pt_uea_custom_amount_1" value="199" placeholder="" data-parsley-errors-container="#pt_uea_custom_amount_errors_1">
4 <input type="hidden" class="pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount-formatted" name="pt_items[1][amount]" value="199" data-pt-price="199">
5 <input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][label]" value="Amount:">
6 <input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][tax_percentage]" value="0">
7 <input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][type]" value="open">
8 <div id="pt_uea_custom_amount_errors_1"></div>
9 <span class="form-price-value">85</span>
10 </div>
The value in row 9 needs to constantly change values in row 3 and 4 on the same session. Don't mind the value in row 6.
Let me know how I can get this done. Or maybe a different approach?
Greetings!
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So this is what I got for now from you guys:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var checkViewport = setInterval(function() {
var spanVal = $('.form-price-value').text();
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_1').val(spanVal);
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_formatted_1').val(spanVal);
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_formatted_1').attr('data-pt-price', spanVal);
}, 1000);
});
This code works, but it only affects my needs when I put my mouse in pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount and add a space in it. Then it does apply to the page source. But this is not correct. The source needs to get changed too without touching that class or a space or something!
You can easily do this with the help of jQuery.
With the help of jQuery I would do like this.
Understanding what input field needs to be tracked for changes. I will give all this field a class (track-me).
In the document ready, I will look for changes for that tracked field.
On change of that field I will get the value and put in other input fields (class copy-to - or you can do whatever you like).
See an example below,
HTML
<form>
<div class="">
<input type="text" class="track-me" value=""/>
</div>
<div class="">
<input type="text" class="copy-to" value=""/>
</div>
<div class="">
<input type="text" class="copy-to" value=""/>
</div>
<div class="">
<input type="text" class="copy-to" value=""/>
</div>
<div class="">
<div class="">Please type anything in the first input box</div>
</div>
</form>
jQuery
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.track-me').change(function (){
$('.copy-to').val($(this).val())
});
});
I made comments in the above jQuery code so you can understand. Also, I have made a fiddle so you can play and have a look. In this fiddle, I am using Bootstrap4 just for the purpose of styling, you don't have to worry about that.
Link to fiddle
https://jsfiddle.net/anjanasilva/r21u4fmh/21/
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask me any questions if you have. Cheers.
This is not an ideal solution. I'm not sure there is a verified way of listening for when the innerHTML of a span element changes. This sort of stuff is usually based on user interaction, and the value of the span will be modified by your page. The best solution would be to use the same method that updates the span element to update the values of you hidden input fields.
However, I've placed an interval that will run every second, that takes the text value of the span element and gives it to the values of the 2 input fields:
function start() {
setInterval(function() {
document.getElementById("pt_uea_custom_amount_1").value = document.getElementById("price_value").innerHTML;
document.getElementById("pt_uea_custom_amount_2").value = document.getElementById("price_value").innerHTML;
}, 1000);
}
window.onload = start();
<div class="pt-uea-container">
<span class="pt-uea-currency pt-uea-currency-before"> € </span>
<input type="text" class="pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount" autocomplete="off" name="pt_items[1][amount]" id="pt_uea_custom_amount_1" value="199" placeholder="" data-parsley-errors-container="#pt_uea_custom_amount_errors_1">
<input type="hidden" class="pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount-formatted" name="pt_items[1][amount]" value="199" data-pt-price="199" id="pt_uea_custom_amount_2">
<input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][label]" value="Amount:">
<input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][tax_percentage]" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][type]" value="open">
<div id="pt_uea_custom_amount_errors_1"></div>
<span id="price_value" class="form-price-value">85</span>
</div>
MutationObserver should work here..
const formValuePrice = document.querySelector( '.form-price-value' );
const inputText = document.querySelector( 'input[type="text"]' );
// timer to change values
window.setInterval( () => {
formValuePrice.textContent = Math.round( Math.random() * 100 );
}, 1000 );
// mutation observer
const observer = new MutationObserver( ( mutationsList ) => {
inputText.value = formValuePrice.textContent;
} );
observer.observe( formValuePrice, { childList: true } );
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/LgWXrz?editors=1111
try this, simple using jquery, you can check in inspect element for value attribute data-pt-price
Update: you can using jquery event .on() like change, click, keyup or else to Attach an event handler function for one or more events to the selected elements,
you can read the doc here.
here the updated code
$(function() {
var spanVal = $('#price_value').text();
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_1').val(spanVal);
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_formatted_1').val(spanVal);
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_formatted_1').attr('data-pt-price', spanVal);
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_1').on('change click keyup', function() {
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_formatted_1').val($(this).val());
$('#price_value').text($(this).val());
$('#pt_uea_custom_amount_formatted_1').attr('data-pt-price', $(this).val());
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="pt-uea-container">
<span class="pt-uea-currency pt-uea-currency-before"> € </span>
<input type="text" class="pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount" autocomplete="off" name="pt_items[1][amount]" id="pt_uea_custom_amount_1" value="199" placeholder="" data-parsley-errors-container="#pt_uea_custom_amount_errors_1">
<input type="hidden" class="pt-field pt-uea-custom-amount-formatted" name="pt_items[1][amount]" value="199" data-pt-price="199" id="pt_uea_custom_amount_2">
<input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][label]" value="Amount:">
<input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][tax_percentage]" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="pt_items[1][type]" value="open">
<div id="pt_uea_custom_amount_errors_1"></div>
<span id="price_value" class="form-price-value">85</span>
</div>
This is my first post on this site so hopefully you will go easy on me. I'm trying to create an HTML / PHP form and use a small piece of Javascript to add additional rows to a table when a button is clicked and increment the ID for the two fields.
The button works in adding the rows however it doesn't seem to increment the ID, just use the same ID as the previous row. Hopefully someone could help?
$(window).load(function(){
var table = $('#productanddates')[0];
var newIDSuffix = 2;
$(table).delegate('#button2', 'click', function () {
var thisRow = $(this).closest('tr')[0];
var cloned = $(thisRow).clone();
cloned.find('input, select').each(function () {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
id = id.substring(0, id.length - 1) + newIDSuffix;
$(this).attr('id', id);
});
cloned.insertAfter(thisRow).find('input:date').val('');
newIDSuffix++;
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="blue-bar ta-l">
<div class="container">
<h1>Submit Your Insurance Renewal Date(s)</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="grey-bar">
<div class="container">
<div class="rounded-box">
<div>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" autocomplete="off" required />
</div>
<div>
<label for="name">Renewal Dates</label>
</div>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="productanddates" class="border">
<tr>
<td>
<select name="insurance_type1" id="insurance_type1">
<option></option>
<option>Car</option>
<option>Home</option>
<option>Van</option>
<option>Business</option>
<option>GAP</option>
<option>Travel</option>
</select>
</td>
<td>
<input type="date" name="renewal_date1" id="renewal_date1" />
</td>
<td>
<input type="button" name="button2" id="button2" value="+" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div>
<label for="telephone_number">Contact Number</label>
<input type="tel" id="telephone_number" name="telephone_number" pattern="\d{11}" autocomplete="off" required />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email">Email Address</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" autocomplete="off" required />
</div>
<div>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn">
</div>
</div>
cloned.insertAfter(thisRow).find('input:date').val('');
This line isn't correct. It will throw an invalid selector error.
You need to change it to:
cloned.insertAfter(thisRow).find('input[type="date"]').val('');
jQuery actually does support the :INPUT-TYPE format in selectors, but not the new HTML5 input types (yet): so using input[type="date"] here is the correct way for now to select an element with an HTML5 type. Please notice the quotes around the value. If you want to select an attribute with a certain value.
A selector overview of css selectors here: W3schools.
Because this line is throwing an error your newIDSuffix never gets updated, because the script halts at the line before that because of the script error.
#Charlietfl raises a valid point about learning more about classes and DOM traversal. However that will not fix this code. Or explain why your code isn't working. Nevertheless it's a good tip.
I've gone ahead an taken a stab at a cleaner version of what I think that you are trying to accomplish. I'll walk through the major updates:
Updated the button id and name from "button2" to "button1" - I assumed that you would want to keep the indices in sync across the inputs in each row.
Changing $(window).load(function() { to $("document").ready(function() { - While either will work, the former will wait until all images have finished loading, while the latter while fire once the DOM has completed building. Unless you REALLY want the images to load first, I'd recommend $("document").ready(), for faster triggering of the code.
Removing the [0] references - the primary reason to use [0] after a jQuery selector collection is to reference the DOM version of the selected jQuery element, in order to us a "vanilla" JavaScript method on it. In all cases, you were re-rwapping the variables in $(...), which just converted the DOM element back into a jQuery object, so that extra step was not needed.
Changed the .delegate() method to .on() - as Howard Renollet noted, that is the correct method to use for modern versions of jQuery. Note that the "event" and "target" parameters have swapped places in on, from where they were in delegate.
Changed the event target from #button2 to :button - this will make sure that all of the buttons in the new rows will also allow you to add additional rows, not just the first one.
Switched the clone target from the clicked row to the last row in the table - this will help keep your row numbering consistant and in ascending order. The cloned row will always be the last one, regardless of which one was clicked, and the new row will always be placed at the end, after it.
Changed the indexing to use the last row's index as the base for the new row and use a regular expression to determine it - with the table being ordered now, you can always count on the last row to have the highest index. By using the regular expression /^(.+)(\d+)$/i, you can split up the index value into "everything before the index" and "the index (i.e., on or more numbers, at the end of the value)". Then, you simply increment the index by 1 and reattach it, for the new value. Using the regex approach also allows you to easily adapt, it there ever get to be more than 9 rows (i.e., double-digit indices).
Updated both the id and name attributes for each input - I assumed that you would want the id and name attributes to be the same for each individual element, based on the initial row, and, you were only updating the id in your code, which would have caused problems when sending the data.
Changed $("input:date") to $("input[type='date']) - as Mouser pointed out, this was really the core reason why your code was failing, initially. All of the other changes will help you avoid additional issues in the future or were simply "code quality"-related changes.
So . . . those were the major updates. :) Let me know if I misunderstood what you were trying to do or if you have any questions.
$("document").ready(function() {
$('#productanddates').on('click', ':button', function () {
var lastRow = $(this).closest('table').find("tr:last-child");
var cloned = lastRow.clone();
cloned.find('input, select').each(function () {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var regIdMatch = /^(.+)(\d+)$/;
var aIdParts = id.match(regIdMatch);
var newId = aIdParts[1] + (parseInt(aIdParts[2], 10) + 1);
$(this).attr('id', newId);
$(this).attr('name', newId);
});
cloned.find("input[type='date']").val('');
cloned.insertAfter(lastRow);
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="blue-bar ta-l">
<div class="container">
<h1>Submit Your Insurance Renewal Date(s)</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="grey-bar">
<div class="container">
<div class="rounded-box">
<div>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" autocomplete="off" required />
</div>
<div>
<label for="name">Renewal Dates</label>
</div>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="productanddates" class="border">
<tr>
<td>
<select name="insurance_type1" id="insurance_type1">
<option></option>
<option>Car</option>
<option>Home</option>
<option>Van</option>
<option>Business</option>
<option>GAP</option>
<option>Travel</option>
</select>
</td>
<td>
<input type="date" name="renewal_date1" id="renewal_date1" />
</td>
<td>
<input type="button" name="button1" id="button1" value="+" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div>
<label for="telephone_number">Contact Number</label>
<input type="tel" id="telephone_number" name="telephone_number" pattern="\d{11}" autocomplete="off" required />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email">Email Address</label>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" autocomplete="off" required />
</div>
<div>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn">
</div>
</div>
cloned.insertAfter(thisRow).find('input[type="date"]').val('');
Why i am getting a string in my web api controller when I am setting the the property as
$("#ProfessionsCheckBoxes input:checked").each(function() {
professionsChecked.push($(this).attr("Id"));
});
$("#SelectedProfessions").val(professionsChecked);
SelectedProfessions is a list of string in my view model.
It is really frustrating Like if I check two check boxes,
I get in my controller "2,3" at the 0 index of the list i.e: [0] = "2,3". Not not a list like: [0] ="2" and [1] = "3"
Note1:
This is how I am generating my checkboxes:
<div id="ProfessionsCheckBoxes" class="some item">
<div class="form-group thirds">
#if (Model.Professions != null)
{
foreach (var item in Model.Professions)
{
<div class="one-third">
#Html.Label(item.Name)
#Html.CheckBox(item.Name, item.IsChecked, new {id = item.Id})
</div>
}
}
</div>
</div>
Note2: I am submit the form through an ajax call with form.serialize() method.
Try to put the values in a separate elements of your <form> with the same name instead of generate and array and then put the whole array content as a value of your element, If the element is an <input type="hidden"> as you said in your comments you can use:
$("#ProfessionsCheckBoxes input:checked").each(function() {
$("form").append('<input type="hidden" name="SelectedProfessions" value="' + $(this).attr("Id") + '"></input>');
});
Hope this helps,
Try editing the name of your inputs in the HTML to something like:
<form method="get">
<input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="Politics"/> Politics<br/>
<input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="Movies"/> Movies<br/>
<input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="World "/> World<br/>
<input type="submit" value="Go!" />
</form>
Notice the array brackets after options.
I am trying to disable a section of a form if it has been signed by a supervisor using 2 fields.
The problem is it works too good. It disables the section on a new form. For brevity here are the 2 fields, the hidden values of those fields and the jquery script.
This is the code of the fields when adding a new form or record.
These 2 forms are within the div with the id supersection.
Here is the html for the 2 fields
First the hidden values of the fields in the form then the html of the fields themselves.
<div id="supersection" style="border: none;">
<input type="hidden" name="supersignoff" value="0"/>
<input type="hidden" name="superdeclare" value="0"/>
<label class="padd2left" for="supersignoff">
<input type="checkbox" value="1" id="supersignoff" name="supersignoff" />
Complete and sign</label>
<label for="superdeclare">
<input type="checkbox" value="1" id="superdeclare" name="superdeclare" />
I have completed with the best info from all parties</label>
Below is the jquery script. This disables the whole section.
$(function(){
var signoff = $("#supersignoff").val();
var sdeclare = $("#superdeclare").val()
if(signoff=="1" && sdeclare=="1"){
$("#supersection *").prop("disabled",true);
}
})
Again the section is being disabled even when it is a new form.
Any ideas?
$(function(){
var signoff = $("#supersignoff").prop('checked');
var sdeclare = $("#superdeclare").prop('checked')
if(signoff && sdeclare){
$("#supersection *").prop("disabled",true);
}
});
.prop('checked') will give you the status of checkbox is checked or not, but not .val().
Ref: .prop() and .val()