I am trying to create a summary page where I grab all content form the main page and show it in a overlapping div sort of like images are displayed these days.
Now problem that I get I lose input and select values once I past it into a summary / print wrap.
jQuery
$(".header").clone().appendTo('.page');
$(".task").clone().appendTo('.page');
$(".options").clone().appendTo('.page');
.header and .task are just plain text input. And that works just fine. However with in the .options I have many controls like textarea, input, and select ... I get all the elements into .page however I lose all the selected values and text.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
The value of the inputs are not stored in the attribute tag value. This means that the copy will not have the value set. So before you copy them set the value attr.
function CopyStuffToPage() {
// Doing this will change the HTML for all the input elements
$('input').each(function(index,element) {
$(element).attr('value',$(element).val());
});
$('textarea').each(function(index,element) {
$(element).html($(element).val());
});
$('select').each(function(index,element) {
var value = $(element).val();
$(element).children('option').removeAttr('selected');
$(element).children('option[value='+value+']').attr('selected','selected');
});
// Then you can do this
$(".header").clone().appendTo('.page');
$(".task").clone().appendTo('.page');
$(".options").clone().appendTo('.page');
}
For selects you will have to add the attribute 'selected' to the option for which the select has selected.
I had this same issue when I wanted to save the contents of a div through PHP I had to set the attribute tags then send the HTML.
Edit: To Clerify the values of the elements you are copying are not stored as
<input value='this value'/>
they are stored in the DOM thus cloning them only clones the html not the value.
You can use localstorage for a quick patch to your problem.
Store the values within the textbox and textarea as,
//retrieving value from textbox and text area,
var textbox = $("#id-of-textbox").val();
var textarea = $("#id-of-textarea").val();
//retrieving the selected value for 'select'
var selectedValue = $('#id-of-select').val();
//storing the value in localstorage
localstorage.setItem("textbox", textbox);
localstorage.setItem("textarea", textarea);
localstorage.setItem("select", selectedValue);
//You can retrieve the above stored values anywhere you want as,
var newtextbox = localstorage.getItem("textbox");
var newtextarea = localstorage.getItem("textarea");
var newselect = localstorage.getItem("select");
//It is advisable to remove the store data after it's use,
localstorage.removeItem("textbox");
localstorage.removeItem("textarea");
localstorage.removeItem("select");
Advantage of using localstorage is that the data is stored within user's browser so you can access it on any page just like session data.
Related
Using react I can grab the value of the selected element via target.value
however in my current case I want both the value as its an ID of sorts and the face value of the option. How do I grab that with react? Is that plausible?
By face value I mean the Words in between <option value='123'> TEXT </option>
I want to be able to get the "TEXT"
I would just give this select box an id and grab this value using normal JavaScript function attached to your click handler or whatever function you want to execute within your React component.
// regular javascript way
var yourElement = document.getElementById(elementId);
if (yourElement.selectedIndex == -1)
return null;
return yourElement.options[yourElement.selectedIndex].text;
event.target gives you the HTMLSelectElement, from there you have access to a few other things such as HTMLSelectElement.selectedOptions.
From MDN:
HTMLSelectElement.selectedOptions (Read only)
Returns a live HTMLCollection containing the set of options that are selected.
So from there you can get the HTMLOptionElement and the text
Put it all together and you'll have something like this:
var selectedOption = e.target.selectedOptions[0];
console.log(selectedOption.value); // 123
console.log(selectedOption.text); // TEXT
I'm trying to create form for printing with dynamically generated inputs.
Contents of the fields is shown later in PreviewDiv.
It works fine as long as I specify where they should be, for example:
$('#Prw_CapacityA_1').text($('#CapacityA_1').val());
$('#Prw_CapacityB_1').text($('#CapacityB_1').val());
$('#Prw_CapacityC_1').text($('#CapacityC_1').val());
But if the user creates 100 fields this would be a lot of code to write.
There must be other methods to fix this dynamically, for example:
$('#Prw_CapacityA_'+ counter).text($('#CapacityA_'+ counter).val());
Here's the js fiddle
You could try using attribute starts with selector to select the elements starting with the specific id's and then loop through them using the each() function.
There is no need to have html within your preview table. You can generate it when the user clicks on preview. Modified fiddle
$('#PreviewButton').click(function(){
var capB = $('td input[id^=CapacityB_]');
var capC = $('td input[id^=CapacityC_]');
var table = $("#AddFieldsToPreviewDiv");
table.empty(); //build table everytime user previews so that previously appended values are removed
table.append('<tr><td>ID</td><td>Text 1</td><td>Text 2</td><td>Text 3</td></tr>');
$('td input[id^=CapacityA_]').each(function(i){
table.append('<tr><td>#'+(i + 1)
+'</td><td>'+$(this).val()
+'</td><td>'+$(capB[i]).val()
+'</td><td>'+$(capC[i]).val()
+'</td></tr>');
});
// Show PreviewDiv and hide FormDiv if PreviewButton clicked
$('#PreviewDiv').show();
$('#FormDiv').hide();
});
You could try giving them a unique class (Normally I'd suggest ID but you're using one) say a class of "getinfo"
You could then try the .each() function
https://api.jquery.com/each/
$( ".getinfo" ).each(function( index ) {
var text = $(this).val();
alert(text);
});
This will make an alert box for every element it finds with the class 'getinfo' and then retrieve the value and display it, I hope this gives you a better idea.
If the amount of inputs can change from one page load to the next then you need to use a loop, rather than pulling all the values by 'hand', More code will help better understand what you're trying to achieve and from what.
I'm trying to get the control which is inside of a cell table; in my table I have different controls, labels, checkboxes, etc.
I basically need to get the control which is used in that table
var x = document.getElementById('myTable').rows[0].cells;
alert(x[0].innerText);
//alert(x[3].innerHTML);
if (x.Control == checkbox) {
x.checked = true;
}
This will be in a loop but for now I just need to be able to check the checkbox by grabbing the control and setting that control to true
Any hints/help would be great
I doesn't really understand what you exactly need is it
document.getElementById("checkbox").checked = true;
here checkbox is the id of a particular checkbox
I would put a unique id on the form element instead and use that to grab it. In this way you can change the structure in the future. Example: perhaps you no longer want to use a table grid, but a grid of divs.
When you use innerHTML you will might also grab textnodes and other things you put in the cell.
An alternative - if you really want to find a specific cell in a table - is to give each cell a unique id on the form "cell-4-5" where 4 is the row and 5 is the column.
[EDIT]
If you want to have the cell contents returned as a DOM-object then childNodes can be used:
var x = document.getElementById('myTable').childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes
If you want to have the cell contents returned as a string then innerHTML can be used:
var x = document.getElementById('myTable').childNodes[0].childNodes[0].innerHTML
To check if the checkbox is checked you need to keep it as a DOM element and thus use the first version.
I am filling a drop down based on the value selected in the first drop down.Data being sent back from server is in JSON format and using JQuery to parse and fill the second select tag
<select name="abc" id="jobName">
<option value="-1">Please select a Job</option>
</select>
This is my Jquery code
var selectedGroup = document.getElementById(groupDropDownId);
var groupdata = selectedGroup.options[selectedGroup.selectedIndex].value;
var formInput='group='+groupdata;
$.getJSON('search/getSchedulerJobListForGroup',formInput,function(data) {
$('.result').html('' + data.jobList + '');
$.each(data.jobList,function(index, value){
var jobId = document.getElementById(resetDropDownId);
var option=new Option(value,value);
try{
jobId.add(option);
}
catch(e){
jobId.appendChild(option);
}
});
});
$("#jobName")[0].selectedIndex = 1;
// $("#jobName").val($("#triggerjobName option:first").val());
in above code groupDropDownId is ID of the drop down based on whose value, second drop down will be filled.resetDropDownId is ID of second drop down which i am trying to fill from JSON data getting from the server.
Upon filling the drop down, its also creating an empty option tag and it is getting select by default.
I am not sure if i can add some default value to that empty option so that i can select that default option value like "please select bla bla."
also i tried to select first element from the drop down but nothing seems working for me.I am wondering what i am doing wrong here?
Based on your question, it looks like you want to know how to change the value and text of an element within a dynamically populated select list.
Currently, you have this statement $("#jobName")[0].selectedIndex = 1; sitting outside of your getJSON request. If you move this inside of the getJSON function, it will work as expected.
If you want to set the value and text of that object, you'll want to use ->
$('#jobId option:first').val("Some Value").text("other stuff");
You can see a working JS Fiddle using dynamically populated select list from a JSON object.
Fiddle
On my aspx page I dynamically create html controls on client side using javascript. For example, after page load you can click button in a browser, by clicking button html input and select elements appear. You may click once again, and this elements (input and select) will added again. So, you can create so many inputs and selects as you want (all this using javascript, no postbacks)
After user created some inputs and selects and entered some information in it, he posted form. I want on server side to find all this dynamically added elements and perform some actions depends on values in this controls.
How can I find dynamically added elements, and what is the best and elegant way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance.
In the Javascript that creates the new elements, increment a counter each time an element is created. Add the value of the counter to the name of the input element so each element has a unique name.
Add the final value of the counter to a hidden form field when the form is posted.
In your server side code, create a loop that starts at zero and continues until you have reached the value of the counter. Within the loop, fetch the posted value of the corresponding form field.
When you add the elements, assign unique IDs to them, and then retrieve their values using Request.Form["UniqueIdHere"] (C#) or Request.Form("UniqueIdHere") (VB.NET).
Create a loop that loops through each input and select object, that grabs the name/id of the current object and its corresponding value. Then add those items to an array and once the loop is completed, pass those values to your aspx file.
You can view an example with this approach at: http://jsfiddle.net/euHeX/. It currently just alerts the values, but you could easily modify it to pass the values as a parameter via ajax to your handler aspx file. The code will add new inputs or select boxes based off of the input provided. This would of course be modified to reflect your current setup.
HTML:
<div id="dynamic"></div>
<input type="button" id="submit-form" value="Submit>>">
JavaScript (using jQuery):
function createInput(type){
for(var i=0; i<5; i++){
if(type==0){
var obj = '<input type="text" id="'+i+'" class="dynamicContent">';
}else if(type==1){
var obj = '<select id="'+i+'" class="dynamicContent"><option>--Select--</option></select>';
}
$("#dynamic").append(obj);
}
}
function getContent(){
var inputArray = [];
$(".dynamicContent").each(function(k,v){
var o = $(this);
var oType;
if(o.is("input")){ oType = "input"; }
if(o.is("select")){ oType = "select"; }
var oID = oType+o.attr("id");
var oValue = o.val();
inputArray.push(oID+'='+oValue);
});
alert(inputArray);
}
$("#submit-form").click(function(){
getContent();
});
// Set type to 0 for input or 1 for select
var type = '1';
createInput(type);
If you're using jQuery you can use .live() to achive this like a peace of cake!
http://api.jquery.com/live/
I don't know if your controls will survive the postback the way you're creating them, but a good technique for accessing dynamically generated controls (assuming that you've figured out how to persist them) is to do something like the following:
Add a panel to your page. Add your dynamically created controls to this panel.
In the OnClick event handler (or other method), do something like the following:
foreach (DropDownList ddl in Panel1.Controls.OfType<DropDownList>())
{
//put code here
}
foreach (TextBox txt in Panel1.Controls.OfType<TextBox>())
{
//put code here
}