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Use XPath or onClick or onblur to select an element and use jQuery to blur this element

*UPDATE:I am new to jQuery, as well as using XPath, and I am struggling with getting a proper working solution that will blur a dynamically created HTML element. I have an .onblur event hooked up (doesn't work as expected), and have tried using the $(document.activeElement), but my implementation might be incorrect. I would appreciate any help in creating a working solution, that will blur this element (jqInput) when a user clicks anywhere outside the active element. I have added the HTML and jQuery/JavaScript below.
Some ideas I have had:
(1) Use XPath to select a dynamic HTML element (jqInput), and then use jQuery's .onClick method to blur a this element, when a user clicks anywhere outside of the area of the XPath selected element.
(2) Use the $(document.activeElement) to determine where the .onblur should fire:
var thisTitle = input0;
var activeElement = $(document.activeElement);
if (thisTitle != activeElement) {
jqInput.hide();
_layout.viewHeaderTextInput.inputOnBlurHandler(canvasObj, jqHeaderText, jqInput);
}
I am open to all working solutions. And hopefully this will answer someone else's question in the future.
My challenge: Multiple elements are active, and the .onblur does not fire. See the image below:
NOTE: The <input /> field has focus, as well as the <div> to the left of the (the blue outline). If a user clicks anywhere outside that <input />, the blur must be applied to that element.
My Code: jQuery and JavaScript
This is a code snippet where the variable jqInput and input0 is created:
var jqInput = null;
if (jqHeaderText.next().hasClass("inline-editable"))
{
//Use existing input if it already exists
jqInput = jqHeaderText.next();
}
else
{
//Creaet a new editable header text input
jqInput = $("<input class=\"inline-editable\" type=\"text\"/>").insertAfter(jqHeaderText);
}
var input0 = jqInput.get(0);
//Assign key down event for the input when user preses enter to complete entering of the text
input0.onkeydown = function (e)
{
if (e.keyCode === 13)
{
jqInput.trigger("blur");
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
}
};
This is my .onblur event, and my helper method to blur the element:
input0.onblur = function ()
{
_layout.viewHeaderTextInput.inputOnBlurHandler(canvasObj, jqHeaderText, jqInput);
};
inputOnBlurHandler: function (canvasObj, jqHeaderText, jqInput)
{
// Hide input textbox
jqInput.hide();
// Store the value in the canvas
canvasObj.headingText = jqInput.val();
_layout.updateCanvasControlProperty(canvasObj.instanceid, "Title", canvasObj.headingText, canvasObj.headingText);
// Show header element
jqHeaderText.show();
_layout.$propertiesContent.find(".propertyGridEditWrapper").filter(function ()
{
return $(this).data("propertyName") === "Title";
}).find("input[type=text]").val(canvasObj.headingText); // Update the property grid title input element
}
I have tried using the active element, but I don't think the implementation is correct:
var thisTitle = input0;
var activeElement = $(document.activeElement);
if (thisTitle != activeElement) {
jqInput.hide();
_layout.viewHeaderTextInput.inputOnBlurHandler(canvasObj, jqHeaderText, jqInput);
}
My HTML code:
<div class="panel-header-c">
<div class="panel-header-wrapper">
<div class="panel-header-text" style="display: none;">(Enter View Title)</div><input class="inline-editable" type="text" style="display: block;"><div class="panel-header-controls">
<span></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I thank you all in advance.

jQuery slideDown not working on element with dynamically assigned id

EDIT: I cleaned up the code a bit and narrowed down the problem.
So I'm working on a Wordpress site, and I'm trying to incorporate drop-downs into my menu on mobile, which means I have to use jQuery to assign classes and id's to my already existing elements. I have this code that already works on premade HTML, but fails on dynamically created id's.
Here is the code:
...
var menuCount = 0;
var contentCount = 0;
//find the mobile menu items
var submenus = $('[title="submenu"]');
if (submenus.length && submenus.parent('.fusion-mobile-nav-item')) {
console.log(submenus);
submenus.addClass('dropdown-title').append('<i id="dropdown-angle" class="fa fa-angle-down" aria-hidden="true"></i>');
submenus.each(function() {
$(this).attr("href", "#m" + menuCount++);
})
var content = submenus.parent().find('ul.sub-menu');
content.addClass('dropdown-content');
content.each(function() {
$(this).attr("id", "m" + contentCount++);
})
}
$(document).on('click', '.dropdown-title', function(e) {
var currentAttrValue = $(this).attr('href');
if ($(e.target).is('.d-active') || $(e.target).parent('.dropdown-title').is('.d-active')) {
$(this).removeClass('d-active');
$(currentAttrValue).slideUp(300).removeClass('d-open');
} else {
$('.dropdown-title').removeClass('d-active');
$('.dropdown-content').slideUp(300).removeClass('d-open');
$(this).addClass('d-active');
console.log($(currentAttrValue));
//THIS LINE FAILS
$(currentAttrValue).slideDown(300).addClass('d-open');
}
e.preventDefault();
});
I've registered the elements with the class dropdown-title using $(document).on(...) but I can't figure out what I need to do to register the elements with the custom ID's. I've tried putting the event callback inside the .each functions, I've tried making custom events to trigger, but none of them will get the 2nd to last line of code to trigger. There's no errors in the console, and when I console log the selector I get this:
[ul#m0.sub-menu.dropdown-content, context: document, selector: "#m0"]
0
:
ul#m0.sub-menu.dropdown-content
context
:
document
length
:
1
selector
:
"#m0"
proto
:
Object[0]
So jQuery knows the element is there, I just can't figure out how to register it...or maybe it's something I'm not thinking of, I don't know.

If you are creating your elements dynamically, you should be assigning the .on 'click' after creating those elements. Just declare the 'on click' callback code you posted after adding the ids and classes instead of when the page loads, so it gets attached to the elements with .dropdown-title class.
Check this jsFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/6zayouxc/
EDIT: Your edited JS code works... There also might be some problem with your HTML or CSS, are you hiding your submenus? Make sure you are not making them transparent.

You're trying to call a function for a attribute, instead of the element. You probably want $(this).slideDown(300).addClass('d-active'); (also then you don't need $(this).addClass('d-active'); before)

Inside submenus.each loop add your callback listener.
As you are adding the class dropdown-title dynamically, it was not available at dom loading time, that is why event listener was not attached with those elemnts.
var menuCount = 0;
var contentCount = 0;
//find the mobile menu items
var submenus = $('[title="submenu"]');
if (submenus.length && submenus.parent('.fusion-mobile-nav-item')) {
console.log(submenus);
submenus.addClass('dropdown-title').append('<i id="dropdown-angle" class="fa fa-angle-down" aria-hidden="true"></i>');
submenus.each(function() {
$(this).attr("href", "#m" + menuCount++);
// add callback here
$(this).click( function(e) {
var currentAttrValue = $(this).attr('href');
if ($(e.target).is('.d-active') || $(e.target).parent('.dropdown-title').is('.d-active')) {
$(this).removeClass('d-active');
$(currentAttrValue).slideUp(300).removeClass('d-open');
} else {
$('.dropdown-title').removeClass('d-active');
$('.dropdown-content').slideUp(300).removeClass('d-open');
$(this).addClass('d-active');
console.log($(currentAttrValue));
$(currentAttrValue).slideDown(300).addClass('d-active');
}
e.preventDefault();
});
})
var content = submenus.parent().find('ul.sub-menu');
content.addClass('dropdown-content');
content.each(function() {
$(this).attr("id", "m" + contentCount++);
})
}

Turns out my problem is that jQuery is adding to both the mobile menu and the desktop menu, where the desktop menu is being loaded first when I search for that ID that's the one that jQuery finds. So it turns out I was completely wrong about my suspicions.

$(this) acts like both event and <div>

I'm a long-time procedural programmer now assigned to a web-app and studying jquery from a book. The exercise is to run some code on one div selected from a row of 4 <div>s using .each(). I attempted to store the div object that was clicked, then match it as the .each looped thru the 4 divs.
My following code works after trial and error, but the same $(this) seems to sometimes point to a div object, and sometimes to an event object.
How do you explain that behavior?
I understand that .context is deprecated. I tried .target but that didn't seem to work. Is there something else that I should be using?
My primary interest is to understand what is going on (question 1), so if you can provide an explanation and not just an alternative solution (question 2), I'd really appreciate it. Thank you in advance. Here are the code snippets:
<body>
<div id="header">
<h2>Jump for Joy Sale</h2>
</div>
<div id="main">
<div class="guess_box"><img src="images/jump1.jpg"/></div>
<div class="guess_box"><img src="images/jump2.jpg"/></div>
<div class="guess_box"><img src="images/jump3.jpg"/></div>
<div class="guess_box"><img src="images/jump4.jpg"/></div>
</div>
<script src="scripts/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="scripts/my_script.js"></script>
</body>
Jscript
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(".guess_box").click(checkForCode);
function checkForCode()
{
var code_box = 2;
var discount_code = getRandomNum(1,100);
var clicked = $(this); // debugger says clicked is an event object
var iteration = 0;
$(".guess_box").each(function()
{
if ($(this).context === $(clicked).context) //act like event objs
{
if (iteration === code_box)
{
// clicked on correct box
$(this).addClass("discount"); //same $(this) acts like <div>
discount_msg = "<p>Your Code: CODE"+ discount_code +"</p>";
return(false);
}
}
else
{
if (iteration === code_box)
{
// if wrong box clicked, highlight the right one
$(this).addClass("no_discount");
discount_msg = "<p>Sorry, no discount this time</p>";
return(false);
}
}
iteration += 1;
});
$(".guess_box").unbind();
$(this).append(discount_msg); // don't worry about this line
} //checkForCode
}); //ready

The context of this depends on where and how it's used. if your function is called by an an event it will refer to the target of the event, otherwise it will refer to the object being called upon.
What youre seeing in your console is not this, or an event object, it's a jQuery object. If you want to inspect this you need to remove the jQuery wrapper function.
console.log(this);
Event example..
<div>click me</div>
$("div").click(function(){
// referring to the div itself
$(this).text("you clicked me");
// Note you can do it without jQuery as well
// this.innerHTML = "you clicked me";
});
object example
function something(){
this.something = "something";
this.doAThing = function(){
this.something = "something new";
}
}
var thing = new something();
thing.doAThing();
alert(thing.something);

Thanks to those that responded. As Pamblam indicated, I was confusing this and $(this). I replaced 2 lines in my code and it makes more sense:
clicked = $(this) becomes clicked = this
if ($(this).context === $(clicked).context) becomes
if (this === clicked)

Where do I put $(this) in the function?

Since I want to use classes instead of id's in these functions(I have three of the same function with different things I want to .append) I am sure I need to put $(this) in those functions somewhere to only trigger only ONE function on button click and not all three of them. but I am not sure because I am a total beginner in jquery/js, so I would appreciate some help.
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".onclick").click(function () {
$('#favorites').append('<div data-role="main"class="ui-content"><div class="ui-grid-b"><div class="ui-block-a">Arrow</div><div class="ui-block-b">More Info</div><div class="ui-block-c">Unfavorite</div></div></div>');
});
});
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/JYxqEw - HTML And the Jquery Code

$('.onclick') selects all the elements with a class of onclick. That means that, whenever something with class="onclick" is clicked, that function will fire.
If you want all of those elements to append that exact HTML to the #favorites element, then you can leave your code as-is.
However, if what you're trying to do is append that html to the clicked element, that is when you'd use $(this) -- that selects the element you clicked with jQuery, then you can append directly to that element ie:
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".onclick").click(function () {
// this will append the HTML to the element that triggered the click event.
$(this).append('<div data-role="main"class="ui-content"><div class="ui-grid-b"><div class="ui-block-a">Arrow</div><div class="ui-block-b">More Info</div><div class="ui-block-c">Unfavorite</div></div></div>');
});
});
EDIT
so to insert the contents of each .onclick into #favorites, you'll need to use the innerHTML value of the DOM node. example fiddle:
http://jsbin.com/qazepubuzu/edit?html,js,output
When you select something with jQuery, you're actually getting back not just the DOM node, but a jQuery object -- this object contains both a reference to the actual DOM node ([0]), as well as a jquery object ([1]).
So to select the DOM node with $(this), you target the node: $(this)[0]. Then you can use .innerHTML() to grab the HTML contents of the node and do as you like.
Final result:
$(function () {
$('.onclick').click(function () {
$('#favorites').append( $(this)[0].innerHTML );
});
});

So the building blocks are not that complex, but I think you're a novice jQuery developer and so you may not be clear on the difference between jQuery and JS yet.
$(selector, context) allows us to create a jQuery collection for a CSS selector which is the child of a current context DOM node, though if you do not specify one there is an automatic one (which is document.body, I think). Various functions iterating over jQuery collections make the particular element available as this within the JavaScript. To get to the strong element from the .onclick element in the HTML fragment you need to travel up in the hierarchy, then to the appropriate element. Then, we can collect the text from the element. We can do this in either JS or jQuery.
To do this with simply jQuery:
// AP style title case, because Chicago is too crazy.
var to_title_case = (function () { // variable scope bracket
var lower_case = /\b(?:a|an|the|and|for|in|so|nor|to|at|of|up|but|on|yet|by|or)\b/i,
first_word = /^(\W*)(\w*)/,
last_word = /(\w*)(\W*)$/;
function capitalize(word) {
return word.slice(0, 1).toUpperCase() + word.slice(1).toLowerCase();
}
function capitalize_mid(word) {
return lower_case.exec(word) ? word.toLowerCase() : capitalize(word);
}
return function to_title_case(str) {
var prefix = first_word.exec(str),
str_minus_prefix = str.slice(prefix[0].length),
suffix = last_word.exec(str_minus_prefix),
center = str_minus_prefix.slice(0, -suffix[0].length);
return prefix[1] + capitalize(prefix[2]) + center.replace(/\w+/g, capitalize_mid)
+ capitalize(suffix[1]) + suffix[2];
};
})();
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".onclick").click(function () {
var text = $(this).parents('.ui-grid-a').find('.ui-block-a').text();
var html = '<div data-role="main"class="ui-content">'
+ '<div class="ui-grid-b"><div class="ui-block-a">'
+ to_title_case(text) + '</div><div class="ui-block-b">More Info</div>'
+ '<div class="ui-block-c">Unfavorite</div></div></div>';
$("#favorites").append(html);
});
});

JavaScript detect in which element an object is created

Note:
This question is marked as a duplicate but I'm not looking to get the script element but the div element as seen in my code where the script is in.
Whereas the "duplicate" is looking to get the script tag. this is not the case with my script.
I am using JavaScript for my current project and was wondering if there is a way to detect which HTML element an object was created in.
Consider the following code.
Editable.js
function Editable(elem, form1, form2) {
this._edit_form;
this._value_form;
this._current_form;
//Getters
this.getEditForm = function() { return this._form1; };
this.getValueForm = function() { return this._form2; };
this.getCurrentForm = function() { return this._current_form; };
//Setters
this.setCurrentForm = function(current_form) { this._current_form = current_form; };
this.switch = function() {
if(_current_form == _edit_form)
_current_form = _value_form;
else
_current_form = edit_form;
};
var __construct = function() {
$(this.elem).html(this._value_form);
}();
}
-
<html>
<head>
<script src='Editable.js'></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<script>new Editable(this, "Company Name", "<input type='text' placeholder='enter a company name' />");</script>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The point of an editable is that it has a value form and an edit form.
I want to be able to switch between those by removing the text from the element and placing an HTML Input field.
This change is supposed to happen when clicking the element.
The problem now is that "this" logs as
Window {top: Window, window: Window, location: Location, external: Object, chrome: Object…}
While the object would need to know what element it is in so it may edit it's contents.
So I would need the DIV HTML element for that.
Thank you very much.