The main goal is to keep non-refreshed the logotext <div class="small-7 medium-4 columns logo"> and the menu <nav class="pagedMenu" role="navigation">,without clipping on page refresh or while the content is loading from a page to another. Also, the menu state should be preserved from a page to another.
I've found here a possible solution that could solve the problem (you could use ajax to fetch the updated content and use jQuery to put the new content on the page and avoid the refresh entirely. Doing it that way, the existing data in the page would remain untouched. said #jfriend00)
So, I have tried to use an Ajax plugin (called AWS). In the AWS option page, I (suppose) that I've done the right thing pointing wrapper as Ajax container ID and also pagedMenu as Menu container class, Transition Effect Enabled, No ajax container IDs blank, no loader selected, having already a pulse loader implemented in the theme.
At this point, all I got it's a menu / side-menu (shiftnav) / pulse dot loader / content loading malfunction, generated perhaps by the wrong defined Ajax container id and/or menu container class(?) OR by a conflict with an existing JS / jQuery code, not so sure.
Also in Chrome console there is an error:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ;
(anonymous function) # ajaxify.js?ver=4.3.1:175
n.extend.each # jquery-2.1.4.min.js?ver=2.1.4:2
n.fn.n.each # jquery-2.1.4.min.js?ver=2.1.4:2
$.bind.$.ajax.success # ajaxify.js?ver=4.3.1:169
n.Callbacks.j # jquery-2.1.4.min.js?ver=2.1.4:2
n.Callbacks.k.fireWith # jquery-2.1.4.min.js?ver=2.1.4:2
x # jquery-2.1.4.min.js?ver=2.1.4:4
n.ajaxTransport.k.cors.a.crossDomain.send.b # jquery-2.1.4.min.js?ver=2.1.4:4
Everything is getting back to normal on page refresh but doesn't help at all, being useless.
I also have to mention that for the menu I've tried to keep the state using jQuery-Storage-API and storage=jQuery.sessionStorage; as you can see in mynewmenu.js file but that will not solve the non-refreshing elements problem.
The menu jsfiddle only, if this helps to have the whole picture, here thanks to #Diego Betto.
You can use this live link as example; there is a similar situation with the above described - Ajax implementation right(?) - and regarding the appearance, menu is kept non-refreshed from one page to another; if you browse Books, Works etc, menu sections you'll see; if there is a model that could be implemented here, I'll be glad to find it.
LE: meanwhile, I've tried another ajaxify solution made by #arvgta - special thanks - without success yet but as far as I've found from the Author, the defined elements should be div's with id's not classes. So, I'll try to find a way to modify somehow the code in order to have id instead on classes.
Also, I'll try to transform and implement in ajaxify.min.js file, the page-container element; jQuery('#page-container').ajaxify(); I'll come back with news.
LE2: I've tried to implement the solution using id's instead of classes but still, the pages are not loading correctly.
At this point we have ajax.min.js file updated with these lines:
(function($){
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('#page-container').ajaxify({requestDelay:400,forms:false});
});
})(jQuery);
Also, I've modified the theme file to have id=page-container instead if class=page-container.
In these conditions, on menu click, the links are changed (like it should), menu/ logotext elements seems to working almost fine (sometimes get skippy changing position), but the content is not loading correctly in all cases; Same here, everything is getting back to normal on manual page refresh (f5), but doesn't help.
LE3: It looks like the conflict is (at least) between Revolution Slider plugin and Ajaxify.
errormessage="Revolution Slider Error: You have some jquery.js library include that comes after the revolution files js include." ;="" +=" This includes make eliminates the revolution slider libraries, and make it not work." "<="" span="">"
Site live link here. Any thoughts / alternative in this area? (not interested in using other different platforms, different WordPress themes, etc. just a workaround in this existing situation)
LE4: As far as I can see, there are many users that voted up the Jake Bown answer that could be indeed a solution; but I can't find the reason that didn't work correctly implemented into my theme (without errors) live link here The elements logotext / menu are still fading on refresh, are not kept non-refreshed. Any thoughts #Jake Bown / anyone?
LE final.
Buzinas delivered the closest answer for my needs, taking in consideration my site environment (plugins installed, etc).
From what you said I think I might have found the solution you're looking for - you want to load content dynamically whilst keeping the logo and navigation untouched? If so, this might be what you're looking for.
In the example, the pages are loaded in from a div within the page but could be used to load another URL or file:
$('.viewport ul li a').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var link = this.hash.substring(1, this.hash.length);
if($('.'+link).length) {
$('.viewport span.body').html($('.'+link).html());
}
});
TL;DR
I've created a plunker for you, take a look, and play with it as long as you can. You'll learn a lot from it!
I think you're trying too many things here, but didn't try the simplest:
The main goal is to keep non-refreshed the logotext and the menu ,without clipping on page refresh or while the content is loading from a page to another. Also the menu state should be preserved from a page to another.
If you want to do that, there are a few steps:
Create a 'master' page, that we're going to call index.html from now on.
So, our index must have the static part of our page, e.g menu, logo, footer etc.
Then, our 'subpages' must be cut down (no html, head, body, script, style tags, only the content that should be showed into our master page).
That done, now we must change our links to use AJAX instead of doing full refresh:
/* we add a 'click' event handler to our menu */
document.getElementById('menu-menu-2').addEventListener('click', function(e) {
var el = e.target;
/* then, we see if the element that was clicked is a anchor */
if (el.tagName === 'A') {
/* we prevent the default functionality of the anchor (i.e redirect to the page) */
e.preventDefault();
/* we show our spinner, so the user can see that something is loading */
spinner.classList.remove('hidden');
/* and we call our AJAX function, passing a function as the callback */
ajax(el.href, function(xhr) {
/* we get our main div, and we replace its HTML to the response that came
from the AJAX request */
document.getElementById('main').innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
/* since the request was finished, we hide our spinner again */
spinner.classList.add('hidden');
});
}
});
Ok, now our pages are already working via AJAX, and not reloading our static content.
But now, we see that we have some issues. For example, if someone tries to open one of our pages directly via URL, he'll see unstyled page, without the menu/logo etc. So, what should we do?
We have a few more steps now:
Simulate that our links are effectively transfering between pages using the History API:
/* inside our ajax callback, we save the fake-redirect we made into the pushState */
ajax(el.href, function(xhr) {
document.getElementById('main').innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
/* save the new html, so when the user uses the back button, we can load it again */
history.pushState({
html: main.innerHTML,
title: el.textContent + '| neuegrid'
}, '', el.href);
/* (...) */
});
/* and outside it, we add a 'popstate' event handler */
window.addEventListener('popstate', function(e) {
/* so, if we've saved the state before, we can restore it now */
if (e.state) {
document.getElementById('main').innerHTML = e.state.html;
document.title = e.state.title;
}
});
And we need that when the user enters directly to another page, e.g about-us, we redirect him to the index.html, and then load the about-us page from there.
So we create a redirect.js file, and we reference it in all of our
subpages:
/* save the page that the user tried to load into the sessionStorage */
sessionStorage.setItem('page', location.pathname);
/* and them, we redirect him to our main page */
location.replace('/');
And then, in our index.html page, we see if there is any page in the sessionStorage, and we load it, if there is, otherwise we load our home page.
var page = sessionStorage.getItem('page') || 'home';
/* we look into the menu items, and find which has an href attribute
ending with the page's URL we wanna load */
document.querySelector('#menu-menu-2 > li > a[href$="' + page + '"').click();
And that's it, we're done now. Take a look at the plunker I've been making to you.
And play with it as long as you can, so you'll learn a lot from it.
I hope I could help you! :)
Note: Just for reference, this is our ajax function:
function ajax(url, callback, method, params) {
if (!method) method = 'GET';
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(method, url);
if (callback) xhr.addEventListener('load', function() {
callback.call(this, xhr);
});
if (params) {
params = Object.keys(params).map(function(key) {
return encodeURIComponent(key) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
}).join('&');
xhr.send(params);
} else {
xhr.send();
}
}
GOING AJAXED WITH WORDPRESS
demo: http://so.devilmaycode.it/how-to-keep-elements-non-refreshed/
follow these simple steps (let's take as example theme "twentyfifteen" on the WP templates folder):
edit single.php, page.php, index.php and all other pages having get_header() and get_footer() functions and replace it respectively with below code:
NOTE: this is important because if someone (ex: search-engine) reach your pages directly from the link, it is still fully available and 100% working. (useful for SEO)
<?php
//get_header()
if(!isset($_REQUEST['ajax'])){
get_header();
}
?>
<!-- other code --->
<?php
//get_footer()
if(!isset($_REQUEST['ajax'])){
get_footer();
}
?>
open the header.php add the below code inside the <head> section at the very end
<script>
!(function($) {
$(function() {
$('.menu-item a, .widget-area a, .page_item a').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var href = this.href;
var query = href ? (href + (!/\?/g.test(href) ? '?' : '&') + 'ajax=1') : window.location;
/* IMPLEMENT SOME LOGIG HERE BEFORE PAGE LOAD */
/* ex: kill instance of running plugins */
$('#content').hide().empty().load(query, function() {
/* IMPLEMENT SOME LOGIG HERE AFTER PAGE IS LOADED */
/* ex: refresh or run a new plugin instance for this page */
jQuery(this).show();
});
});
});
})(jQuery);
</script>
in the header.php file put the code below at the end of the file, 90% of times you need it under the navigation. In this case we already have this on the "twentyfifteen" theme.
NB: most probably you have the opening tag <div id="content" class="site-content"> inside the header.php file and the closing tag </div> on the footer.php file, this doesn't matter, you can leave it as is.
<div id="content"></div>
NOTE: consider this a proof of concept; it may work as is, but you still need to tailor it to suit your needs; you may need to:
Add a menu (in case it is not already set) by going under Appeareace > Menus > [check Primary Menu] > Save Menu in order to activate the menu. it's tested and working.
You may want to add some other class to the jQuery function like .widget-area a in order to ajax also widget links.
if you are using 3d party plugins you may need to ensure that all dependencies of each plugin are loaded also on the main page from where you want everything is displayed without refreshing content.
you may need to check and kill those 3d party plugin before a new page load and run or refresh plugin needed in the loaded page.
I have a test website www.lemonbrush.com is has the two menu items "Home" and "About".
When we click on the "About" menu, the About page is loaded dynamical, which is great, but when I type the About page's url directly http://www.lemonbrush.com/about.html into the address bar, my whole plan goes for six.
I need some guidance in how shall I structure and load the pages so that the whole header and navigation are included even when we use the direct URL in the address bar.
My skills are HTML and Javascript.
Please see the following screen shots.
When you're clicking the menu item you are updating the page with the data, but when you are going to the link directly you are just getting the data. one way around this is to have common elements for the page, ie. navigation menus, In a javascript file and then use a script tag with a link where you want it on the page.
so, since i thought it would be nice for my project, to have a usable browser history and bookmarkable subpages, i yesterday tried the approach from my comments of the OP.
step 1: change the anchors in your navigation bar to something like that:
home
about
needles to say, that they don't need to be inside the same parent element. those links could be anywhere.
step 2: remove the on click handler from your script, that reacts on the navigation bar clicks!
step 3: create a function, to listen to the onhashchange event. (this has to be done once, on the main html page)
//create a function for the onhashchange event
window.onhashchange = function()
{
//check if a location hash is used
if(window.location.hash != null)
{
//store current location hash in a variable
requestedPage = location.hash;
//remove the '#' from the location hash value
requestedPage = requestedPage.replace('#','');
//load content from subpage into your content frame
$('#contentFrame').load('./' + requestedPage + '.html', function( response, status, xhr )
{
//catch 'file not found' errors and load start page
if ( status == "error" ) {
$('#mainPanel').load('./start.html');
}
});
};
for your page, you have of course to adapt, use the correct selectors and the correct file names.
you then would call your page via www.mydomain.com, and every subdomain via www.mydomain.com/#subPage
I am using ajax post requests for doing paging on a feed in my site. When getting the post request data I am reforming the page by clearing previous data and rendering the new data that came from the request. I want to be able to change the URL as well so saving the new page link will get the user to the current page.
Example:
User on page example.com/feed - seeing content of page #1
User clicking to get to page #2 -> ajax post is send and data on the page is changed using js (no refresh)
URL is still example.com/feed but the content is of example.com/feed?page=2
How can I set the URL to point to the new page without triggering a refresh (no redirect) ?
I am using Nodejs + express.
I understand you are aiming at a single page application.
While keeping the url is nice, note you might want distinct urls for directly accessing different parts of your application. Still, you can load content with AJAX and keep a smooth application. The way to go is using the hash part of the location.
The Sammy.js framework gives you a nice base to build upon, you can try it out.
You can use history pushstate but some browsers does not support.
history.pushState({id: 'SOME ID'}, '', 'myurl.html');
And don't forget about window.onpopstate, it pops if user clicks back button.
Redirect the user to an anchor point.
Page 2
And in your document.ready:
if (window.location.hash.length > 1){
var pageNumber = window.location.hash.substring(1);
loadPage(parseInt(pageNumber));
} else{
loadPage(0);
}
I don't believe it is possible to change the query part of the URL without triggering a refresh (probably due to security issues). However you may change the anchor and use an event listener to detect when the anchor is being changed.
//Listener
$(window).on('hashchange', function() {
if(loaction.hash.length > 1) {
//The anchor has been changed.
loadPageWithAjax("example.com/feed.php?page=" + location.hash.substring(1));
} else {
//Load standard page
...
}
});
Change the anchor to load new feed
Page 2
Remember to not use an anchor that is used as an id, since this makes the browser scroll to that element.
I have a jQuery script that loads content into a div. When you click on a menu item, the content gets loaded inside of "contentarea" and the URL gets updated. That part works perfectly. However, I would also like to be able to click inside of the div (once content has been loaded into it), and load another page in its place. For example, the Forms page gets loaded into contentarea, and inside of the forms page there is a link to the contact us page. When I click on the link, I would like for the forms page to be cleared from content area and the contact us page to be loaded in its place. See the following image:
With the way my script is setup right now, content only loads when I click from outside of the div.
Here's the code I need to modify:
<script type="text/javascript">
//Jquery loader
function getHash() {
return window.location.hash
}
$("a").on("click", function (e) {
page = this.href.replace("#", "") + ".html",
hash = $(this).prop("hash");
$('#contentarea').load(page, function () {
if (page.match("home.html")) {
history.pushState('', document.title, window.location.pathname);
} else {
location.hash = hash;
};
});
});
//on pageload
history.pushState
var hash = getHash();
if (hash) {
$("a[href='" + hash + "']").trigger("click");
} else {
$("a[href='#home']").trigger("click");
}
</script>
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Since you are using jQuery, i would propose this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(document).on( 'click', 'a', function( e ) {
$('#contentarea').load( e.target.href );
});
});
But if you are creating an app, and you are applying it globally, in your case i would reconsider your structure to avoid major changes on your code later. I've passed on that, because you have to manage states (variables of page/state if they exist: like errors, title, url, and obviously content) and determine which of them is active or not to pass to next page or not. Then you have to filter links that you don't want to propague to your history states handler cause you just don't want to...
On some cases, you can't apply existent frameworks on your project because the best approach is to use their code on your framework (yes, create your own framework).
I hope this could help you! :)
I am running jQuery v2.1.1-beta1 & jquery-ui-1.10.4 with the following JS in my script file:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.festival-list').tabs({
beforeActivate: function( event, ui ) {
ui.newTab.index();
}
});
};
I would like to solve the 2 issues:
Problem 1:
I have a series of tabs which work fine. I have a tab with an li with an id of Press (#press). If I load the url (http://website-url.com/news/#press). The content (tab block) shows properly.
However when this url is used as an href in a footer a link the page loads but fails to load the tab (#press) correctly. At present I have to click the footer link then the relevant tab to load the block, there is no automation.
Problem 2:
Secondly I would like to hash to the url, hopefully this will help UI during navigation.
The hash in the url only works on the initial load because the $.ready function is only run once (on page load). If you want to make sure the tabs & URL match each other after the page load, you could do something like
$(window).on('hashchange', function processHashChange(e) {
...
});
If you're looking for more of a site-wide solution, especially if you want the UI to do complex behaviors based on the URL hash (e.g. more than hide/show a tab in one part of a page), you might want to look into a proper JavaScript routing library like Crossroads.