JQuery behavior of text() vs .parent().html() for subsequent changes - javascript

I had a scenario in my code where I was previously updating a div using element.text(data) every time a button was clicked.
I've since updated this, because I need to pass html into the div now instead of text. As such, the call is now element.parent().html(data).
It works correctly the first time the button is clicked, but seems to have the unintended side-effect of only ever allowing me to update it once, now. I changed it back to .text() just to be certain, and sure enough I was able to click my button multiple times with different content, and get that content in there. Unique content just won't make any updates via that parent().html(). Can someone explain what's going on here?
Here's the code that works every time:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#count").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//[... gets some parameters in here ...]
$.post("myfile.php", {argument = list, goes = here}, function(data){
$("#subcount").text("Submission Count: " + data);
});
})
})
And here's the code that only fires once:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#count").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//[... gets some parameters in here ...]
$.post("myfile.php", {argument = list, goes = here}, function(data){
$("#subcount").parent().html(data);
});
})
})
Thanks!

Unless data includes an element with id subcount, after changing the parent HTML, the target will no longer exist.
Try wrapping your data string in:
<div id = "subcount">....</div>
Then you will have a target for the next button click.

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Bind Clicked Object to Callback

I'm using the Modaal library and want to dynamically load the content of the modal via Ajax, which requires sending the ID for each clicked item through to the callback.
I think I need to bind the clicked element to the modaal function, but am not sure how. I think that jQuery's on method.
Without binding, the popup works (but data is not updated for each item):
var info_popup = $('.info-popup');
info_popup.modaal({
after_open: function(ev){
console.log(info_popup.data('unique_id'));
}
});
When I bind the function, it returns the data, but a second click is required to launch the modal:
$('.info-popup').on('click', function() {
var unique_id = $(this).data('unique_id');
return $(this).modaal({
after_open: function(ev){
console.log(unique_id);
}
});
});
So I'm thinking I need to somehow forward the clicked status to Modaal, but not sure how.
Update
I can achieve this by setting the start_open parameter in Modaal to true, but not sure if this is an elegant approach, and would like to see how it would be done from outside of Modaal.

Jquery lag on click function

I've got a table with different columns identified with different classes.
I've also a checkbox binded to every column.
I created a function which is called on the click of any checkbox. In this function I hide/show the column which is linked to this.
It doesn't have any javascript error, and the code is the following:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('ul input').click(function(){
//alert('yooo');
if ($(this).is(':checked')) {
//alert('checked');
$("td."+replaceAll(" ","_",$(this).val())).show();
$("th."+replaceAll(" ","_",$(this).val())).show();
//alert($("td").length);
}
else{
//alert('unselected');
$("td."+replaceAll(" ","_",$(this).val())).hide();
$("th."+replaceAll(" ","_",$(this).val())).hide();
}
});
});
However, after every click, the action has a lag (after many clicks it becomes tooooooo slow, many seconds).
I tried also with .css instead of hide-show, but it doesn't make any change.
I understood that the problem was linked only to checkbox, not on callback or on jquery function. I solved the problem simply by working with radio input, adding a "true" and a "false" radio input for every checkbox that was in the page.
Instead of running the jQuery selector on every click like below:
$("td."+replaceAll(" ","_",$(this).val()))
You could set up some sort of caching like:
var cache = {} //<-- declare this outside your click handler
//add the code below inside your click handler
className = replaceAll(" ","_",$(this).val())
if(!cache[className])
cache[className ] = $("td."+className + ", th."+className); //select all the elements once and store in the cache object
$el = cache[className];
if ($(this).is(':checked'))
$el.show();
else
$el.hide();

jquery - using event.stopPropagation()

When the document is ready, I'm fetching some datas from the server through post request and I'm filling it in the HTML as tags by append. When you click that tag, a comment textarea will be displayed. When you click in the document section, the textarea will be closed. The problem here is I can't enter the text in the textarea, when I click inside, it is hiding. I tried using event.stopPropagation() but no use.
Here is my jquery code:
$.post("/person/keywords/get/", function(data){
for(i=0; i<data.length; i++)
{
count = count + 1;
$(".keywords-set").append('<div class="keyword-item"><span class="keyword" id="keyword-'+count+'">'+data[i]+'</span><textarea class="comment" id="comment-'+count+'"></textarea></div>');
}
});
$(".keywords-set").on('click', "[id^=keyword]", function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
i = $(this).attr("id");
i = i.split('-').pop();
$("#comment-"+i).show();
return false;
});
$(".comment").click(function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
});
$(document).click(function() {
$(".comment").hide();
});
For complete HTML and javascript code, please check here: https://gist.github.com/3024186
It is working in jsfiddle
but not in my localhost. Could you tell the reason, why is it so?
Thanks!
UPDATE
I've also tried this
$(".keywords_set").on('click', ".comment", function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
});
event.stopPropagation() is not working for HTML elements updated through ajax. But is working for normal(already given) elements.
When doing this:
$(".keywords_set").on('click', ".comment", function(event) {
You must understand that you're catching the event in the element ".keywords_set", and there you will be checking if it bubbled up through ".comment"
This means that any other "click" events set between ".keywords_set" and ".comment" will also activate.
doing stop propagation or returning false will only take affect from the bubbling of ".keywords_set" to the document.
You can do this:
$(document).click(function() {
if($(".comment:hover").length==0){
$(".comment").hide();
}
});
Edit: reply to: "Hey, that code works, I don't know how you are doing it by mentioning .comment.length could you be more descriptive about that?"
When you do any jquery selector, an array is returned. so if you do $(".comment") all html nodes with the class ".comment" will be returned to you in a list [obj1, obj2, ..., objn]
When you do $(".comment:hover") you are asking jquery to select you any element with the class "comment" which also have the mouse currently on top of it. Meaning if the length of the list returned by $(".comment:hover") is bigger than zero, then you caught a bubble from a click in a ".comment".
Although either returning false or stoping propagation should also work. (dunno why in your case it is not working, although i didn't look much at the full code)
Edit 2:
i was lazy to read the full code. but when you are setting the click event for the comment, the comment doesn't exist yet. so the new comment you are adding will not be be caught by your click handler. add it inside the ajax callback and it will work :)
Edit 3: one more thing:
you are not getting side effects because the click even you are re-defining only has the the stop propagation, but you should add the stop propagation before returning false in the
$(".keywords_set").on('click', ".comment", function(event) {
because in practice all other comments you have will be proccessing N times the click event that you are adding to be processed multiple times
Since post method is a asynchronous. You are binding $(".comment") before it exist.
moving
$(".comment").click(function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
});
after
$(".keywords-set").append('<div class="keyword-item"><span class="keyword" id="keyword-'+count+'">'+data[i]+'</span><textarea class="comment" id="comment-'+count+'"></textarea></div>');
should work.

JQuery Event repeating in dynamic content

In a page of a website I'm making, the press of a button imports the contents of a another php page and appends it onto the page. However, that other page contains JQuery, and the click event($( ".ExpandRoleButton").click) repeats itself on previous elements every time I import the content. So if I add 3 elements;
Element 1: Repeats the click event 3 times
Element 2: Repeats the click event 2 times
Element 3: Runs the click event once
$("#AjouterPiece").click(function()
{
$.blockUI({ message: '<img src="images/ChargementGeant.gif"/><br/><h1>Un moment svp.</h1>' });
$.post("wizardincl/piste.php", {newPiste: newPiste}, function(data)
{
$("#wizardPistes").append(data);
$.unblockUI();
$(".divNewPiste").fadeTo(300, 1);
$("#nbExemplaires").attr("max", newPiste);
newPiste++
$( ".ExpandRoleButton").click(function()
{
if ($(this).hasClass('RetractRoleButton'))
{
$(this).find('img').attr('src', 'images/ExpandPetitNoir.png');
var that = $(this);
$(this).parent().parent().parent().parent().next().slideUp(500, function() {
that.parent().parent().parent().parent().css('border-bottom', '1px solid #FF790B');
});
$(this).removeClass('RetractRoleButton');
}
else
{
$(this).parent().parent().parent().parent().css('border-bottom', 'none');
$(this).find('img').attr('src', 'images/ExpandPetitNoirRetour.png');
$(this).parent().parent().parent().parent().next().slideDown(500);
$(this).addClass('RetractRoleButton');
}
});
});
});
Currently, part of the JQuery website seems down and after some search, I can't find anything to solve the problem. Is there any way to keep the code from repeating itself like this?
This is because you are binding the event to multiple event handlers. The first time #AjouterPiece is clicked, all .ExpandRoleButton buttons get binded to an onclick handler.
The next time #AjouterPiece is clicked, it gets binded again.
To prevent this, you must unbind the click handlers using the following code before binding it
$( ".ExpandRoleButton").unbind('click')
You can pass in the event with .click(function(e) {...}) and then call e.stopImmediatePropagation() to fire only the current handler, but that only addresses the symptom, not the real problem.
Edit: make sure you are only binding the new instance of the button by adding a context to your selector, like $('.ExpandRoleButton', data). Since you are matching on a class, that selector will grab all the buttons on the page; the context allows you to select only the one inside your result.
A good practice ( solely to prevent issues like this from occurring, unintended multiple click handlers added ) is to..
$(".selector").off('click').on('click', function...
or
$(".selector").unbind('click')...
$(".selector").bind('click')...

jQuery click() not working on replaced html

I am trying to create a go-moku game using jquery,php, and mysql database.
I have a ajax function that updates the a board every second if needed.
var turnCount = -1;
setInterval(function(){
$.get('includes/boardControl.php',{turn: turnCount }, function(data){
if(data != "")
{ $("#board").html(data);
turnCount = $("#turnCount").text();
$("#turnCount").text("")
}
});
}, 1000);
This works just fine, it checks the database to see if turn has been incremented and replaces the board if it has. Now what I want to ultimately do is create a click function that use Ajax to update the board and turn count in the database. I am hoping to somehow use the N'th selector do determine what square I'm clicking on.
I have several questions.
1) My click function right now is
$(document).ready(function() {
$("td > img").click(function(){
alert("clicked");
});
});
as of right now it works on a extra test table I wrote into the html, but not on the table created with the previous function. What am I doing wrong?
2) The tutorials I've looked at so far dictate that I should write code in the following way.
$(document).ready(function() {
//code here
});
When i asked a question last night, I was told that I was over complicating things with my functions. So when should i use a document.ready function and when not? And is it fine to put all of my scripts into one document.ready function or should I have multiple?
3)
Once I get the click image to work I am hoping to send a X,Y coordinate to the server and change that corresponding spot on the board. How would I determine what cell in the table is clicked in order to know what coordinates to use? (or is there a much easier way?)
sounds like you need to change
$("td > img").click(function(){
alert("clicked");
});
to
$("td > img").live('click',function(){
alert("clicked");
});
Edit: For jQuery 1.9 and later you can do:
$("#board").on('click', 'td > img', function(){
// handle click
});
The $(document).ready() function only fires when the page first loads - in order to make this work try something like this:
function bindClicks() {
$("td > img").click(function(){
alert("clicked");
});
}
$(document).ready(bindClicks);
This will allow you to call bindClicks() later on if need be to bind the click events of a new table.
1) Are you re-wiring the click event after the ajax content loads?
The $(document).ready function will fire as soon as the page is fully loaded, but won't fire after ajax calls. So you will need to re-wire the click event after every ajax call:
2) KISS. Keep it as simple as possible. If you have 50+ lines inside a document.ready statement you might want to create some functions.
3) The best way to accomplish this might be to assign a specific ID to each cell and capture that in the click event. You can then pass that to the server and update the specific cell on the return.
Are you sure JQuery is matching you query:
$("td > img")
I would load firefox with firebug and check that your actually getting match first. The second table your creating may have a slightly different structure then you expected and firebug can show you the exact structure also.
Goodluck.

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