When you want to get the HTML of an entire DOM element (wrapper included), you can do the following (as explained here):
$('#myElementId')[0].outerHTML
But what you can't do is call outerHTML on $(this) inside e.g. a click listener or selector function body scope:
$(this).outerHTML //Doesn't complete in IntelliSense, returns undefined in browser
or
$(this)[0].outerHTML //Correction, this DOES work, but it doesn't complete in IntelliSense
because IntelliSense won't show innerHTML or outerHTML in those circumstances, although with vanilla JavaScript you can do:
document.getElementById($(this).attr('id')).outerHTML
So... what's up with that?
outerHTML is a DOM property; jQuery doesn't expose all DOM properties.
If you have a jQuery object, you can only directly access those properties and methods that jQuery exposes, and vice versa for DOM objects.
In object-oriented terms, jQuery objects don't inherit from DOM objects, they contain them.
Saying $x[0] gets you the DOM object for the first element represented by a jQuery object.
You can use directly this to access outerHTML of the current object instead of indirectly going through $(this) as this represents the DOM object (which has outerHTML property) whereas $(this) represents jQuery object.
this.outerHTML
jQuery selector returns an array-like jQuery object which has no outerHTML property.
However, the jQuery resulting array contains DOM elements.
It means that you can actually access it this way.
$(".someClass")[0].outerHTML // it works for me
Update:
It works for me in every browser.
I can access array-like jQuery object in a click event handler as well.
$(".someClass").click(function()
{
alert($(this)[0].outerHTML); // it works me too
});
Here is my JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/13btf60p/
Update 2:
OK, now I get your question. It should have worked.
Do you really need an IntelliSense to complete such a plain and simple construction?
I will add what I found to be the correct solution to what ended up being a simple flaw in the default Visual Studio settings for future reference.
Since I didn't want to let this go, I searched further and found out that, by default, jQuery IntelliSense is somewhat deplorable out of the box in Visual Studio 2013.
Under
Tools > Options > Text Editor > Javascript > IntelliSense > References
I set
Reference Group: "Implicit (Web)"
and added an existing jQuery file. This solved all issues of my question and IntelliSense now suggests all members and methods correctly, although this should have simply worked out of the box instead of costing everyone a bunch of time.
this.outerHTML is enough.
If you use getElementById maybe you can use:
var table = document.getElementById('blablabla');
Related
I'm learning Javascript right now, and attempting to change the text title of a particular tab. It's actually part of a larger Shiny dashboard project, but I want to add some custom functionality to a few tabs. Below are the tabs in question:
Simple enough. I first access my tabs in my Javascript file:
var tabScrub2 = $(document).find('[data-value="scrubTab2"]');
console.log(tabScrub2);
When I use Firefox's developer console, I see that the tab is an object:
Moreover, it looks like I need to change the innerText property of 0, whatever this is, since that corresponds to the title of my tab (the innerText of 1 corresponds to the text inside scrubTab2). However, I'm not familiar with the actual object type being returned here:
Simply put, how the heck do I access and manipulate properties from this? And am I actually accessing an array? When I type in
var scrub2 = tabScrub2["1"];
console.log(scrub2);
I get an HTML element. I'm seen the a element in CSS and jQuery, but am not super familiar with how to manipulate its properties programmatically? How do I go about accessing and manipulating the innerText properties of this via Javascript? For instance, how would I hide scrubTab2, or change its title to something else?
The first object you're seeing is jQuery's wrapper around the real DOM elements. It's not an actual array, but it does contain all of the elements that matched your query under zero-indexed properties (e.g. "0" and "1") which allows you to access to them via an array-like API (e.g. tabScrub[1]).
Your method of grabbing a node using tabScrub2["1"] is correct (see this question in the jQuery FAQ). It's more likely to see that done with a numeric key though (i.e. tabScrub[1]) because that matches the way you would access an element in a normal array.
As far as manipulating properties of the DOM node, the DOM's API is notoriously inconsistent and quirky (hence the need for things like jQuery in the first place). However, for your use case you can just assign a string to the innerText property directly (e.g. tagScrub2[1].innerText = "Tab title"). MDN is a great resource if you're looking for reference material on other parts of the DOM.
A side note: if you're looking for a specific element you should use a query that will only match that element. It's generally a bad sign if you're grabbing extra elements and then accessing the element you want at a key other than 0. If you're doing this then your code depends on other (potentially unrelated) nodes in the DOM existing before your node, and if/when you change those nodes your original code will break.
Just use jQuery eq method to get the relevant object index from the array.
For an example
//Query and get first element.
var tabScrub2 = $(document).find('[data-value="scrubTab2"]:eq(0)');
//Hide
tabScrub2.hide();
//Change title
tabScrub2.attr("title", "New Title Text");
Lean more about jQuery eq here.
https://api.jquery.com/eq/
Since you use jquery selectors tabScrub2[0] returns the native DOM element instead of another jQuery object. Therefore the hide function won't work in that object since the native DOM element doesn't implement such type of functionality for an element. That's why you have to use jQuery pseudo selector as above. Because hide will only work with a jQuery object.
I have this code in javascript
var greet;
greet = function() {
var textoNombre;
textoNombre = document.getElementById("textoNombre");
return alert(textoNombre.value);
};
what is working on the HTML document. But if I change document.getElementById("textoNombre") by the jQuery version $("#textoNombre") it just dont work. The alert says "undefined".
I have the jQuery script linked on the head of the HTML before to my custom js file.
This is a very basic question but I tried different things and no one work, can you help me please? Thank you in advance.
That's because jQuery objects don't have a value property, the equivelant is $('#someId').val().
To get the underlying DOM object, you can use $('#someId')[0]. This is because jQuery objects are actually like arrays, and their elements are the DOM objects themselves. That means $('#someId')[0].value would work as you'd expect.
jQuery objects are not DOM objects and don't share all their properties.
To get the current value of a form control, you would use the .val() method, not the .value property.
I saw some code around the web that uses the following statement
if ($($(this)).hasClass("footer_default")) {
$('#abc')
.appendTo($(this))
.toolbar({position: "fixed"});
}
What is the use of $($(this)) and why is that necessary here?
Yes, $($(this)) is the same as $(this), the jQuery() or $() function is wonderfully idempotent. There is no reason for that particular construction (double wrapping of this), however, something I use as a shortcut for grabbing the first element only from a group, which involves similar double wrapping, is
$($('selector')[0])
Which amounts to, grab every element that matches selector, (which returns a jQuery object), then use [0] to grab the first one on the list (which returns a DOM object), then wrap it in $() again to turn it back into a jQuery object, which this time only contains a single element instead of a collection. It is roughly equivalent to
document.querySelectorAll('selector')[0];, which is pretty much
document.querySelector('selector');
You can wrap $ as many times as you want, it won't change anything.
If foo is a DOM element, $(foo) will return the corresponding jQuery object.
If foo is a jQuery object, $(foo) will return the same object.
That's why $($(this)) will return exactly the same as $(this).
There is no specific need for double-wrapping and $($(this)) is exactly the same as $(this).
That said, I once found this double-wrapping in one file in my project, committed by another developer. Tracking the changes through revision, turned out that it started as $($(this).find('selector').first()) - that is, the result of some selector was wrapped to create a new object. Then for whatever reasons, the selector was removed and only the double-wrapping of this remained. Needless to say, on the next commit it was changed to $(this).
As explained before me, $($(this)) and $(this) are absolutely identical. jQuery returns the same jQuery object if you try to wrap it more than once.
Additionally, for performance considerations it is a good practice to reuse jQuery objects - it is quite expensive to create jQuery objects, especially the ones with complex selectors. Example:
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.hasClass("footer_default")) {
$('#abc')
.appendTo($this)
.toolbar({position: "fixed"});
}
Just google for 'jQuery best practices' - it will take a 30 min for you to learn these basics and you will use jQuery way more effectively.
There is no meainig of doing that.
The following code return the same:
console.log($($(this)).hasClass("footer_default"))
console.log($(this).hasClass("footer_default"))
a boolean value depenging on if the selected element has or not the class footer_default:
.hasClass( className )Returns: Boolean
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/IrvinDominin/aSzFn/
$(this) and $($(this)) both return jquery object.
There is no difference between these two.
I'm using the jQueryify bookmarklet on a page so that I can call jQuery functions from the console. But everytime I invoke a jQuery function on a selected object, I get the error:
"TypeError: jQuery("li")[0].children[0].html is not a function
[Break On This Error] jQuery('li')[0].children[0].html();
I have tried this in FireBug as well as Google Chrome's Webkit console.
You are no longer working with jQuery objects when using square braces.
jQuery("li")[0]
This returns you the 1st li as a DOMElement, not a jQuery object.
jQuery("li")[0].children[0]
This returns the 1st li's 1st child as a DOMElement, not a jQuery object.
.html()
This function only works for jQuery objects. For DOMElements, you can use the .innerHTML property.
I suggest instead of dealing with DOMElements, you should continue working with jQuery objects. Try using this instead:
jQuery('li').eq(0).children().eq(0).html()
It looks like you are trying to call a jQuery function, html, on a DOM object children[0]. Try wrapping that in a jQuery object and then calling html
var temp = jQuery("li")[0].children[0];
var html = jQuery(temp).html();
Check the result of jQuery("li")[0].children[0] , it's a regular DOM object NOT a jQuery object. Without seeing your HTML i can't recommend a better selector but a cheap and dirty fix would be
jQuery(jQuery('li')[0].children[0]).html();
This will convert the DOM object result into a jQuery object which has the .html() function.
Accessing the array elements on the jquery object (using []) returns a DOMElement, which obviously doesn't have jquery's methods. You probably want to use eq() instead.
Try following
jQuery(jQuery("li")[0].children[0]).html();
or better one
jQuery("li:eq(0)").children(':eq(0)').html();
or another one
jQuery("li:eq(0)").children().eq(0).html();
even this one will work
jQuery("li").eq(0).children().eq(0).html();
I would like to understand relationship between jQuery object and DOM element..
When jQuery returns an element it shows up as [object Object] in an alert.
When getElementByID returns an element it shows up as [object HTMLDivElement]. What does that mean exactly? I mean are both of them objects with a difference ?
Also what methods can operate on jQuery object vs DOM element? Can a single jQuery object represent multiple DOM elements ?
I would like to understand relationship between jQuery object and DOM element
A jQuery object is an array-like object that contains DOM element(s). A jQuery object can contain multiple DOM elements depending on the selector you use.
Also what methods can operate on jQuery object vs DOM element? Can a single jQuery object represent multiple DOM elements ?
jQuery functions (a full list is on the website) operate on jQuery objects and not on DOM elements. You can access the DOM elements inside a jQuery function using .get() or accessing the element at the desired index directly:
$("selector")[0] // Accesses the first DOM element in this jQuery object
$("selector").get(0) // Equivalent to the code above
$("selector").get() // Retrieve a true array of DOM elements matched by this selector
In other words, the following should get you the same result:
<div id="foo"></div>
alert($("#foo")[0]);
alert($("#foo").get(0));
alert(document.getElementById("foo"));
For more information on the jQuery object, see the documentation. Also check out the documentation for .get()
When you use jQuery to obtain an DOM element, the jQuery object returns contains a reference to the element. When you use a native function like getElementById, you get the reference to the element directly, not contained within a jQuery object.
A jQuery object is an array-like object that can contain multiple DOM elements:
var jQueryCollection = $("div"); //Contains all div elements in DOM
The above line could be performed without jQuery:
var normalCollection = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
In fact, that's exactly what jQuery will do internally when you pass in a simple selector like div. You can access the actual elements within a jQuery collection using the get method:
var div1 = jQueryCollection.get(0); //Gets the first element in the collection
When you have an element, or set of elements, inside a jQuery object, you can use any of the methods available in the jQuery API, whereas when you have the raw element you can only use native JavaScript methods.
I just barely started playing with jQuery this last month, and I had a similar question running around in my mind. All the answers you have received so far are valid and on the dot, but a very precise answer may be this:
Let's say you are in a function, and to refer to the calling element, you can either use this, or $(this); but what is the difference? Turns out, when you use $(this), you are wrapping this inside a jQuery object. The benefit is that once an object is a jQuery object, you can use all the jQuery functions on it.
It's pretty powerful, since you can even wrap a string representation of elements, var s = '<div>hello <a href='#'>world</a></div><span>!</span>', inside a jQuery object just by literally wrapping it in $(): $(s). Now you can manipulate all those elements with jQuery.
Most jQuery member Functions do not have a return value but rather return the current jQuery Object or another jQuery Object.
So,
console.log("(!!) jquery >> " + $("#id") ) ;
will return [object Object], i.e. a jQuery Object which maintains the collection which is the result of evaluating the selector String ("#id") against the Document,
while ,
console.log("(!!) getElementById >> " + document.getElementById("id") ) ;
will return [object HTMLDivElement] (or in fact [object Object] in IE) because/if the return value is a div Element.
Also what methods can operate on jQuery object vs DOM element? (1) Can a single jQuery object represent multiple DOM elements ? (2)
(1) There is a host of member Functions in jQuery that pertain to DOM Objects. The best thing to do imo is search the jQuery API documentation for a relevant Function once you have a specific task (such as selecting Nodes or manipulating them).
jQuery documentation
(2) Yes, a single jQuery Object may maintain a list of multiple DOM Elements. There are multiple Functions (such as jQuery.find or jQuery.each) that build upon this automatic caching behaviour.
That's just your browser being clever. They're both objects but DOMElements are special objects. jQuery just wraps DOMElements in a Javascript object.
If you want to get more debug info I recommend you look at debugging tools like Firebug for Firefox and Chrome's built-in inspector (very similar to Firebug).
Besides what has been mentioned, I'd like to add something about why jQuery object is imported according to description from jquery-object
Compatibility
The implementation of element methods varies across browser vendors and versions.
As an example, set innerHTML of element may not work in most versions of Internet Explorer.
You can set innerHTML in jQuery way and jQuery will help you hide the differences of browser.
// Setting the inner HTML with jQuery.
var target = document.getElementById( "target" );
$( target ).html( "<td>Hello <b>World</b>!</td>" );
Convenience
jQuery provides a list of methods bound to jQuery object to smooth developer's experience, please check some of them under http://api.jquery.com/. The website also provides a common DOM manipulation, let's see how to insert an element stored in newElement after the target element in both way.
The DOM way,
// Inserting a new element after another with the native DOM API.
var target = document.getElementById( "target" );
var newElement = document.createElement( "div" );
target.parentNode.insertBefore( newElement, target.nextSibling );
The jQuery way,
// Inserting a new element after another with jQuery.
var target = document.getElementById( "target" );
var newElement = document.createElement( "div" );
$( target ).after( newElement );
Hope this is a supplement.