I'm having a challenge:
How do I reload a <div> on page using AJAX, without loading bars and without disappearing while the content is loaded.
I want to keep previously generated content as long as new content is loaded.
This is my script but when loading the content in a loop it blinks:
<script type="text/javascript">
function showCargo_34(urlparms)
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttpshowCargo_34=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttpshowCargo_34=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttpshowCargo_34.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttpshowCargo_34.readyState==4 && xmlhttpshowCargo_34.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("Cargo_34").innerHTML=xmlhttpshowCargo_34.responseText;
}
}
xmlhttpshowCargo_34.open("GET","modules/desktop/desktop/script_cargo.php?"+urlparms,true); // modules/catalogitem/script_categorylist.php?"+urlparms
xmlhttpshowCargo_34.send();
};
</script>
<div id="Cargo_34"></div>
<script>
function repeat_Cargo_34() {
showCargo_34('baseid=1&moduleid=10&gridmoduleid=133&speed=180&x=3&y=4');
setTimeout( repeat_Cargo_34, 20000);
};
repeat_Cargo_34();
</script>
I would use jquery for ajax. It is way faster and simplier.
Simple way
$("#element_id").load("http://url.com");
More advanced way you can find here
Also you were talking about keeping previoius content. Well just use += for innerHTML:
document.getElementById("Cargo_34").innerHTML += xmlhttpshowCargo_34.responseText;
If you dont want to use jquery I would suggest making a second ajax function and make the current function change an invisible div where you would echo the following line when the loading and changing is finished.
//Echo this once all data has been loaded and changed.
//$newurlPalms is what you would have echoed normally but in a urlpalm.
echo "<style onload='showCargo2($newurlpalms)'></style>";
//so make this only load and save all the data and then echo above line in
//a hidden div
function showcargo(urlpalms){ajaxcode}
//make this show the data in the right div.
function showcargo2(urlpalms){ajaxdoce}
like this it wont remove the data, and once the loading is complete the echo will cause the second function to run automatically which than is able to instantly shows the data.
Use jQuery's AJAX, it's more easy. Look at load() function and for example setInterval. e.g.:
setInterval(function(){ $('#div').load('file.html'); }, 5000}
in every 5 seconds it will load file.html to <div id="id">
That situation doesn't exists.
Explanation:
Standard html request call as it is in my question do not put content by innerHTML while is loaded. That means while content is loaded it will be displayed as it is until content is completed in JSON and ajax call function is done.
Error was in another part of code.
Related
How can I remove script elements before they are being executed?
I thought about using the DOMNodeInserted event, but apparently it doesn't catch script elements. I've also tried using the jQuery livequery plugin like that:
$("script").livequery(function () {
$(this).remove();
});
It did remove the script element, but after it was executed.
I'm looking for a cross-browser solution, but I'm not even sure if that's possible. I read about Mutation Observers which seems close enough but I'm not sure if it can solve my problem.
It would be even better if there was a way to modify the script content before it is being executed without removing and recreating it.
Removing a script element does not do anything. If you can somehow access a script element, it was executed a long time ago and removing it will have no effect.
So we need to work around it. If your script element is at the top of the page like this:
<head>
<script src="yourscript.js"></script>
You could make a synchronous ajax request to the same page, so you can parse its content into a new document, modify all script tags and then replace
the current document with the modified document.
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest,
content,
doc,
scripts;
xhr.open( "GET", document.URL, false );
xhr.send(null);
content = xhr.responseText;
doc = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument(""+(document.title || ""));
doc.open();
doc.write(content);
doc.close();
scripts = doc.getElementsByTagName("script");
//Modify scripts as you please
[].forEach.call( scripts, function( script ) {
script.removeAttribute("src");
script.innerHTML = 'alert("hello world");';
});
//Doing this will activate all the modified scripts and the "old page" will be gone as the document is replaced
document.replaceChild( document.importNode(doc.documentElement, true), document.documentElement);
Unfortunately this cannot be set up in jsfiddle or jsbin. But you should be able to copy paste this code exactly as it is into this
page's console in google chrome. You should see the alerts and when you inspect the live dom, each script was modified.
The difference is that we are running this after scripts have been executed on the page, so the old scripts should still have a working effect on the page.
That's why, for this to work, you need to be the very first script on the page to do it.
Tested to work in google chrome. Firefox is completely ignoring the doc.write call for some reason.
i donot know what you are trying to do. But it is better to load them on request rather than delete on some conditions.
$.getScript('helloworld.js', function() {
$("#content").html('
Javascript is loaded successful!
');
});
If you wants to remove scripts before there execution, its not possible.
But what you can do is, remove script programatically on a condition & if have an issue with memory-leaks, then you can call below code before remove script.
var var1 = 'hello';
var cleanAll = function () {
delete window.var1;
delete window.cleanAll;
};
// unload all resources
cleanAll();
I've got a chat function in my website for two users to chat with each other, and I'm using JavaScript, AJAX, and PHP for it.
At the moment, it won't refresh the chat area automatically unless I submit a reply to the chat or refresh the page. I can't figure out why.
JavaScript Function
function checkReply(threadid) {
// XMLHttpRequest
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("chatwrap").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
setInterval(checkReply(threadid), 10000);
}
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","inc/chatreply.php?chatid="+ threadid,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
The event handler is on the <div> the responseText will end up in:
<div id="chatwrap" onload="checkReply('.$threadid.')"></div>
$threadid is a GET variable set at the top of the page:
$threadid = (int)$_GET['chatid'];
UPDATE
Seeing that you were in a PHP state already, the syntax was correct.
The problem is that the div doesn't possess an onload event. You'll have to attach it to the body tag, or include a script in the head or below the div, as it will only execute after the div has been rendered.
You're not including the PHP variable correctly. At the moment you are passing the string .$threadid. to the checkReply function. You will have to drop into PHP mode again before using this syntax by using the delimiters <?php & ?>.
<div id="chatwrap" onload="checkReply(<?php echo $threadid; ?>)"></div>
This should work better.
I have a site and I want it to randomly load a different HTML5 Javascript animation each time the page is loaded, JavaScript is by far one of the weakest of my skills and I appreciate any help in advance and if this happens to be duplicate (I've tried searching) then please vote for the question to be closed.
Basically the method I have used is a dirty one and most likely the reason its not working, basically I tried randommath and had no luck and put this down to my JS skills being extremely weak, the alternative method which looked easier doesn't work either and this is basically inserting a HTML on page load, so for example a.html and b.html which both contain different scripts.
This is what my code looks like:
HTML
<html>
<head>
<script src="js/insert.js"></script><!-- This inserts the Random Page -->
</head>
<body onload="loadExternalHTMLPage()">
<div id="injectjs"> </div>
<canvas="id"> </canvas>
<script src="js/animation-lib-pageA.js"></script><!--Library for pageA -->
<script src="js/animation-lib-pageB.js"></script><!--Library for pageB -->
</body>
</html>
Inject.js
function loadExternalHTMLPage() {
var xmlhttp;
var pagesToDisplay = ['a.html', 'b.html'];
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else {
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("jsinsert").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
var randomnumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * pagesToDisplay.length);
xmlhttp.open("GET", pagesToDisplay[randomnumber], true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
Most JS Guru's should be able to see that I'm randomly inserting a.html and b.html on page load, now this works but the problem is the scripts contained within a.html and b.html are not executing. (using firebug I can clearly see that the scripts are being inserted as intended).
so for example a and b looks like:
a.html
<script> window.onload = function () { }</script>
b.html
<script> window.onload = function () { } </script>
Basically the code within A and B are valid and work fine within this insert and I've filled the above examples as just a placeholder. A and B both contain JavaScript that executes animation contained within the canvas but it doesn't work at present and I suspect its something to do with the fact I'm loading the scripts after the page has been loaded. Thanks in advance.
You can randomly load the html for A or B and then run its animation.
This example uses jQuery which makes the task of loading remote html easier. Here is a link to the jquery .load function which replaces an existing elements html with the downloaded html: http://api.jquery.com/load/ If you want pure javascript, you can use that [messier!] alternative, but the logic remains the same.
These are the steps:
Be sure the web page has loaded,
Randomly pick A or B to load/execute,
Replace the html in #injectjs with htmlForA or htmlForB,
Wait until the html has been fully replaced,
Run the appropriate animationA or animationB.
Here is starter code. (Be sure you include the jQuery library)
<script>
window.onload(){
// randomly load html+animation A or B
if(Math.random()<.50){
$('#injectjs').load(
'yourSite.com/HtmlForA.html', // first load the html for A
function(){ animationA(); } // then run animationA
);
}else{
$('#injectjs').load(
'yourSite.com/HtmlForB.html', // first load the html for B
function(){ animationB(); } // then run animationB
);
}
}
</script>
You can always use eval() to execute the content you downloaded ... :) (not recommended).
Or you can modify the html page on server to include the random script you want before serving the page to the user (you don't state platform) since it's anyways changed at page load.
Can't figure out why queries made in the search box are not being retained in IE (of course). Can somebody please open the link below in IE
http://www.adhuntr.com/p/results.html?ie=UTF-8&q=ipad+mini&min=&max=&l=all&c=all&t=&p=
The error is due to your addLoadEvent() function, calling just fillSearchBox() from the IE Dev Console fires this function correctly and populate the input box with the query.
Specially, the error is in this call: addLoadEvent(fillSearchBox);
I tried using the updated suggestion for the addLoadEvent function in jsFiddle without any success.
Since you are using jQuery just a little further down the code you can use this instead. Sample in jsFiddle:
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
fillSearchBox()
});
BTW, you have a typo on input.result, which is why the search does not submit automatically when you select a suggestion:
input
.attr ("autocomplete", "off")
.autocomplete ("http://clients1.google.com/complete/search", options)
.result (function () { searchform.submit(); }); //<== typo in this line, should be submit
You really should move all your inline code to external files, you have an awful lot of inline JavaScript and CSS in the page which need to be downloaded every time the page loads.
I am guessing by retaining, you mean show up in the search bar as you are typing, or suggestion? Well, it could be because, that older versions of IE namely 6,7 do not support the Ajax XMLHttpRequest() object, therefore... you have to change your ajax code, namely less than just one line, to check also for window.ActiveXObject of IE. by doing
if(window.XMLHttpRequest){
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); }
else if(window.ActiveXObject) {
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }
else {
alert('Please update your browse, to see Ajax in Action :) ');
}
I have a multi-level drop down menu (done using HTML + CSS) that I want to put on a number of different pages. In the future I will need to update this menu and change its contents, so I have saved the HTML in its own file so that I can roll out the changes to all the pages at once (instead of having to go through each page and repeatedly paste in the changed list items).
I have tried using iframe, but this cuts off the menu items with its limited height (setting a manual height that's big enough would leave tons of blank space, of course):
<iframe height="100%" src="menu.html" frameborder="no" width="100%" scrolling="no"></iframe>
I also tried using embed (this looks fine until you mouse over the menu items -- it just scrolls within the frame):
<embed type="text/html" src="menu.html" width="100%" height="100%"></embed>
The menu functions fine when the code is simply dumped into the individual pages I need it on, so I know that's not the issue. It's the embedding and calling it from its own HTML file that is the problem. Is there a simple way to do this that will allow the drop-down menu to appear as it should?
I should mention that while I have my IT department's blessing to do this, this is a project that they aren't supporting. I can only edit the HTML of my webpages in the body, and not the head. The exception being HTML pages I upload as files (like the menu code). So there are some constraints.
Well here is a bit of a long winded javascript approach that might keep your IT guys happy:
window.onload = new Function("load('embed-me.html','content')"); // Replace with URL of your file and ID of div you want to load into.
function ahah(url, target) {
document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = ' Fetching data...';
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
req = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
if (req != undefined) {
req.onreadystatechange = function() {ahahDone(url, target);};
req.open("GET", url, true);
req.send("");
}
}
function ahahDone(url, target) {
if (req.readyState == 4) { // only if req is "loaded"
if (req.status == 200) { // only if "OK"
document.getElementById(target).innerHTML = req.responseText;
} else {
document.getElementById(target).innerHTML=" AHAH Error:\n"+ req.status + "\n" +req.statusText;
}
}
}
function load(name, div) {
ahah(name,div);
return false;
}
Not written by me(LINK) (I just added the run on page load bit).
Tested and working (in Chrome at least). Though your site will have no menu if the user has javascript disabled!
EDIT:
Example...
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="embed-me.js"></script> <!-- load the javascript -->
<div id="content"></div> <!-- html will be embedded here -->
</body>
I use the following php code and works very nice. It doesn't even show when you check the source code online.
<?php include("menu.php"); ?>
Use php Include !!
Okay first.. copy the menu code and save it on to a file called menu-1.php
then whenever you want to use your menu; just type the following code:
<?php include("menu-1.php"); ?>
This is a good way to do menu's because every time you need to update your menu, you wont have to update every single page, just update your menu-1.php
P.S. PHP might not show up on your local machine unless you are using wamp or xamp