jQuery show function flashing briefly - javascript

I am very new to web development and jQuery. I'm trying to add my first jQuery method to my code in Ruby on Rails. I have a css class
.list-group-item{
display: none;
}
and a JS function
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".list-group").click(function(){
$(".list-group-item").show();
});
});
I tested it with an alert, the alert appeared. When I try to run this, the list group briefly flashed then goes away immediately. I am sure it is a simple mistake. I have tried adding return false before the document function, no change. Thanks for acknowledging my noob question :)

Is .list-group-item a link? If so, it sounds like the page is reloading as you don't have return false. Need something like:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".list-group").click(function(){
$(".list-group-item").show();
return false;
});
});
What this does is stop the link from doing anything else after it shows the links with list-group-item class.

You need to put the return false; after the show() function...assuming the list item is a link. return false; prevents the default behaviour of the selector. So if it's a link, it'll prevent the link from functioning - or being fired.
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".list-group").click(function(){
$(".list-group-item").show();
return false; // add this here
});
});

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jQuery On Not working for simple script

There must be some mental block that I'm just not getting...My entire site is working fine, but dynamically created links with an ID are not. Something is wrong in my code...it's as simple as this but it's not working, please show me my dumb mistake (I know it's something simple).
so for example this would be a generated link:
Hi
and then I have this script:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(document).on('click','#himan',function(){
alert('hi');
});
});
but nothing happens, and I get no errors...I'm lost, maybe my coffee is not working today. Can someone help me?
Here is demo
It is working perfect:
$(document).ready(function () {
$(document).on('click', '#himan', function () {
alert('hi');
});
});
reason might be duplicate of id, there must only one element with specific id because id is a unique on a page, if you adding multiple element use class instead of id.
Handle the click event on #himan itself...
function initializeDynamicLinks() {
$('#himan').on('click',function(){
alert('hi');
});
}
$(document).ready(function() {
initializeDynamicLinks()
});
Here you see it working: http://jsfiddle.net/digitalextremist/emUWL/
Rerun initializeDynamicLinks() whenever you add links dynamically.
And... as has been pointed out several times in comments, you need to make sure #himan only occurs once in your source to be completely sure everything will function properly.

NivoSlider - Disable Right Click

I have been asked to put in place disabling of the right clicks on a website, I've informed them there is so many ways that people can still download the images via Google Images, Cache, Firebug etc etc, but none the less my arguments have gone ignored and they insist this must be done.
Any, I've put in the footer some code that disables right clicking on all elements using <IMG src=""> this fails to work on NivoSlider, I did change the script to use window load on disabling the right click which works but after slide1 it stops working and I assume this is something to do with changes to the DOM.
JavaScript is by far my weakest point and I'm hoping that someone without to much trouble can either give me a full working solution or something to go on. Thanks in Advance.
They are using NivoSlider with the following trigger:
<script type="text/javascript">
(function($) {
$(window).load(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider();
});
})(jQuery);
</script>
And this is the code that I've placed in the footer that fails to work on slide2+
<script>
$(window).load(function() {
$('img').bind('contextmenu', function(e) {
return false;
});
});
</script>
You're absolutely right with the DOM changes. You need to delegate the event to a parent element.
Try something like this:
$('#slider').delegate('img', 'contextmenu', function(e) {
return false;
});
Or this if using jQuery > 1.7:
$('#slider').on('contextmenu', 'img', function(e) {
return false;
});
You might be able to do it by preventing the default behaviour of a right click on the image.
See this answer: How to distinguish between left and right mouse click with jQuery

Hide/show a icon depending upon the location.search?

Let us say i have a page http://www.abc.com/xyz.html and i am going to access this page in two ways
simple as it is
I will append some stuff to the url e.g. http://www.abc.com/xyz.html?nohome by just putting the value ?nohome manually in the code.
Now i will add some javascript code something like this
$(document).ready(function () {
if (location.search=="?value=nohome") {
// wanna hide a button in this current page
}
else {
// just show the original page.
}
});
Any help will be appreciated.
As you are using jQuery to catch the DOM-ready event, I guess a jQuery solution to your problem would be fine, even though the question isn't tagged jQuery:
You can use .hide() to hide and element:
$(document).ready(function () {
if (location.search=="?value=nohome")
{
$("#idOfElementToHide").hide();
}
// Got rid of the else statement, since you didn't want to do anything on else
});

simulating a click on a <a>-element in javascript

for a website, i am using the jQuery supzersized gallery script: http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/slideshow/3.2/demo.html
As you can see in the demo, in the bottom right corner there is an little arrow button that toggles a thumbnail bar. There is no option in the config files to automatically blend this in when opening the site.
So i guess i have to simulate a click on that button (the button is the tray-button, see HTML). I tried something like this:
<script>
$(function() {
$('#tray-button').click();
});
</script>
However, this doesnt seem to work in any browsers i tested.
Any idea?
$('#tray-arrow').click(function() {
// prepare an action here, maybe say goodbye.
//
// if #tray-arrow is button or link <a href=...>
// you can allow or disallow going to the link:
// return true; // accept action
// return false; // disallow
});
$('#tray-arrow').trigger('click'); // this is a simulation of click
Try this
$("#tray-arrow").live("click", function () {
// do something
});
I assume that you want to popup the thumbnail bar #thump-tray on page load.
Here's a way to do it:
locate the file supersized.shutter.js and find this code:
// Thumbnail Tray Toggle
$(vars.tray_button).toggle(function(){
$(vars.thumb_tray).stop().animate({bottom : 0, avoidTransforms : true}, 300 );
if ($(vars.tray_arrow).attr('src')) $(vars.tray_arrow).attr("src", vars.image_path + "button-tray-down.png");
return false;
}, function() {
$(vars.thumb_tray).stop().animate({bottom : -$(vars.thumb_tray).height(), avoidTransforms : true}, 300 );
if ($(vars.tray_arrow).attr('src')) $(vars.tray_arrow).attr("src", vars.image_path + "button-tray-up.png");
return false;
});
After it, add:
$(vars.tray_button).click();
Dont forget in your page (demo.html in the plugin), to change
<script type="text/javascript" src="theme/supersized.shutter.min.js"></script>
to
<script type="text/javascript" src="theme/supersized.shutter.js"></script>
instead of using
$(function(){
//jquery magic magic
});
you culd try this witch will work your jquery magic after the full page is loaded (images etc)
$(window).load(function () {
// jquery magic
});
and to simulate a click you culd use // shuld be the same as $('#tray-arrow').click();
$('#tray-arrow').trigger('click',function(){ })
example:
$(window).load(function () {
$('#tray-arrow').trigger('click',function(){
alert('just been clicked!');
})
});
try
<script>
$(function() {
$('#tray-arrow').click();
});
</script>
Make sure that this code is after your carousel is initialized.
This looks like it's a problem of timing the trigger. The plugin also loads on document load, so maybe when you try to bind the event listener the element is not created yet.
Maybe you need to add the listener in something like the theme._init function
http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/docs.html#theme-init
or somewhere similar.
A problem might be that your plugin detects whether the click has been initiated by a user (real mouse click), or through code (by using $('#id').click() method). If so, it's natural that you can't get any result from clicking the anchor element through code.
Check the source code of your plugin.

Basic jQuery problems

I am struggling with jQuery for a long time now. It is very powerful and there are lot of great things we can do with jQuery.
My problem is that I use a lot of jQuery features at the same time. E.g. I have a site that displays items, 12 items per page and I can paginate through the pages using jQuery. On the same page I implemented a thumpsUp button that uses jQuery too.
The more jQuery features I use, the harder it gets to arrange them properly. E.g.:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".cornerize").corner("5px"); //cornerize links
$('a#verd').live('click', exSite); //open iframe
$("a.tp").live('click', thumpsUp); //thumps up
$("a#next").click(getProgramms); //next page
$("a#previous").click(getProgramms); //previous page
//for the current page reload the content
$("a#page").each(function() {
$(this).click(getProgramms);
});
//this isn't working...
$('.smallerpost').live('click', alert('test'));
});
Have a look at the last code line. I want to perform an alert when the div element is clicked. Instead of doing so the page shows me the alert when I refresh the page. A click on the div has no effect.
What am I doing wrong? What would be a strategy here to have clean and working jQuery?
Change that line to
$('.smallerpost').live('click', function () {
alert('test');
});
and while you're there...
$("a#page").each(function() {
$(this).click(getProgramms);
});
has exactly the same effect as:
$('a#page').click(getProgramms);
... but technically there should be only one element with id='page' anyway
Your code $('.smallerpost').live('click', alert('test')); calls the alert immediately and passes its return value into the live function as the second parameter. What you want to pass there is a function to call, so you want:
$('.smallerpost').live('click', function() {
alert('test');
});
or
$('.smallerpost').live('click', handleSmallerPostClick);
function handleSmallerPostClick() {
alert('test');
}
...depending on how you structure your code.

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