I am very confused.
I created the following script which is located at http://tapmeister.com/test/dom.html. For some unknown reason, tinymce.editors.ta1 and tinymce.editors[0] show up as undefined, and attempting to use a method under them results in an error. But when I inspect tinymce or tinymce.editors using FireBug, I see them in the DOM.
So, I create a jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/JWyWM/ to show the people on stackoverflow. But when I test it out, tinymce.editors.ta1 and tinymce.editors[0] are no longer undefined, and the methods work without error.
What is going on??? Maybe something to do with public/protected/private properties? How do I access methods such as tinymce.editors.ta1.hide()? Thank you!!!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Testing</title>
<script src="http://tinymce.cachefly.net/4.0/tinymce.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
tinymce.init({selector: "textarea#ta1"});
tinymce.init({selector: "textarea#ta2"});
console.log(tinymce);
console.log(tinymce.editors);
console.log(tinymce.editors.ta1);
console.log(tinymce.editors[0]);
//tinymce.editors.ta1.hide();
//alert('pause');
//tinymce.editors.ta1.show();
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<textarea id="ta1"></textarea>
<textarea id="ta2"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
TinyMCE doesn't do all of the setup work immediately when you call init. It provides a callback, setup, to tell you when the work is done.
So if you provide a setup callback, you can interact with the editor instance then.
Here's an example (I've also moved your scripts to the end, which is best practice regardless):
Live Example | Live Source
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Testing</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<textarea id="ta1"></textarea>
<textarea id="ta2"></textarea>
</form>
<script src="http://tinymce.cachefly.net/4.0/tinymce.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
tinymce.init({
selector: "#ta1, #ta2",
setup: function(e) {
console.log("Editor " + e.id + " is ready");
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Now, if you want to actually access the editor instance, bizarrely TinyMCE doesn't add it to tinymce.editors until after calling the setup function. But if you throw in a brief yield, you're all set. Here's the above with a changed setup function:
Live Copy | Live Source
setup: function(e) {
// Bizarrely, TinyMCE calls `setup` *before* adding
// the relevant editor to `tinymce.editors`,
// so we have to yield briefly
console.log("Editor " + e.id + " is ready");
if (e.id === "ta2") {
console.log("It's ta2, I'll hide it in a moment.");
setTimeout(function() {
tinymce.editors[e.id].hide();
}, 0);
}
}
So why did it work on jsFiddle? Well, jsFiddle has a truly brain dead surprising default setting, which is to put all of your script in a window#load callback function. window#load happens very late in the load process, after all external resources have been loaded. (You can see that in the jsFiddle UI, it's the second drop-down list on the left.) So apparently TinyMCE was completely ready at that point, where it isn't earlier in the cycle.
Side note: 99.9% of the time, there is absolutely no point in supplying a tag name with an id selector, e.g. textarea#ta1. id values are unique, so you don't have to qualify them unless you explicitly want to avoid matching an element that may sometimes have one tag name, or other times have another, which is a pretty unusual use case.
There's a large chance that your script is running before tinyMCE has actually loaded. It might be the case that it loads faster from your test site so that is why it works.
Use as a quick check.
Related
I want to load the content of a webpage in a div. Here's my code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
When the this item is clicked, the webpage should be loaded inside the content id:
<ul><li><a id="menu_top" href='testing.html'><span>My account</span></a></li></ul>
<div id="content"> </div>
JS:
$("#menu_top").click(function() {
var href = $ (this).attr('href');
alert(href);
$("#content").load(href);
return false;
});
testing.html:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
SUCCESS!
</body>
</html>
Unfortunately, the above code does not work. I have checked it multiple times but could not find the issue.
#Milind Anantwar is correct - must have the $(document).ready wrap your JS:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#menu_top").click(function() {
var href = $ (this).attr('href');
alert(href);
$("#content").load(href);
return false;
});
});
I also tested whether or not the UL or OL tags affected it as #psicopoo mentioned, but it didn't seem to in Chrome. *ALSO, make sure that "testing.html" is a valid page to load.
*As noted on http://api.jquery.com/load/: "Due to browser security restrictions, most "Ajax" requests are subject to the same origin policy; the request can not successfully retrieve data from a different domain, subdomain, port, or protocol."
I think you're encountering an issue with the page you're trying to load. I copied your code exactly and it works in Fiddle, see if this works for you, if so, it's probably your page:
testing.html
JS Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/fb4j6y6d/
I have been playing around with Scala/Lift/Comet/Ajax etc. recently. I came across a problem which boils down to this:
Summary
I want to update a specific div (by id) when a certain event occurs. If the div does not exist yet, it must be created and appended to the HTML body.
Currently I cannot get this to work when using the Lift framework.
Source File
LIFT_PROJECT/src/main/webapp/static/mouseViewTest.html:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function() {
updateOrCreateMouseDiv('123', 'coords')
});
function updateOrCreateMouseDiv(uniqueId, coords) {
if ($('#mouse_'+uniqueId).length == 0) {
$('body').append('<div id=' + uniqueId + '>' + coords + '</div>');
}
$('#mouse_'+uniqueId).html(coords)
}
// ]]>
</script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
The Error
If I open the above file directly in a browser (file:///LIFT_PROJECT/src/main/webapp/static/mouseViewTest.html) it works i.e. a new div is created.
But if I run it through Lift/Jetty (http://localhost:8080/static/mouseViewTest) I get the following JavaScript error:
Chrome:
Uncaught Error: NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: DOM Exception 7
Firefox (Firebug):
An invalid or illegal string was specified" code: "12
Comparing the Sources in Browser
When comparing the page sources in the browser, I can see only one difference, namely: Lift adds the following JavaScript just before the closing </body> tag:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ajax_request/liftAjax.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var lift_page = "F320717045475W3A";
// ]]>
</script>
Questions
Does anyone have an idea why this happens?
If I would want to move the JavaScript code into the Scala file (using Lift's JavaScript and jQuery support), what would the code look like?
Please note: When I used Jq("body") ~> JqAppend() to create new divs, it worked. I just didn't know how to check whether the div id already existed. Thats why I moved the code into the template, planning on using Lift's Call function to execute the JS function. And thats when these problems started...
Thanks!
I recently ran into a similar problem and, from what I've gathered, the problem is because the page when served by lift is served as XHTML and there are some issues when writing to the DOM if the page is XHTML vs. HTML. I don't know whether this is a bug with jQuery or Safari or if it's just something that's not possible in XHTML, but a quick way to fix it is to modify your Boot.scala to tell Lift to not use XHTML as the mime type with this line:
LiftRules.useXhtmlMimeType = false
I'm working through some javascript examples, and I just did this one:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Page title</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function displayText()
{
document.getElementById('targetDIV').innerHTML = "You're using Javascript";
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="displayText()">
<h2>This should be before the other text.</h2>
<div id="targetDIV">
</div>
</body>
</html>
OK. Very basic, I know-but I realized I was confused about the "why" of some things. Could it be accurate to say that:
Function=WHAT will happen.
The call (the body onload...)= WHEN it will happen.
and div id="targetDIV" = WHERE it will happen
I know this is the case in this example, but in general is that the way things work in Javascript?
Yes, that's a pretty good working model to carry in your head.
onload for the body is called an Event and many objects issue events. Your function displayText is called in response to the onload Event and is therefore an event handler.
The code inside your function can do anything, but in this case it dynamically loads some text into a tag on your page.
There are a couple of other things worth pointing out at this point. You access the tag using document.getElementById. document is variable available to you in Javascript which contains a model of the page called the DOM or document object model. This is extremely powerful as it presents a hierarchical layout of everything on your page and allows you to manipulate the contents.
getElementById() is a very useful function which searches the DOM tree and returns the object which has the ID that you specify, it's a sort of search. The text gets to your tag because you added the targetDIV id to the DIV tag and therefore you could find it via the DOM function.
Welcome to programming in Javascript. Now you have a goood working model you'll find loads of really clever things you can do and your life as a web programmer will never be the same again.
Sound good to me.
I have found several other questions here on S.O. (and the web in general) that ask roughly this same question, but the answers always seem to suggest other ways of structuring code that avoid the need for addressing this underlying issue.
For example, many people suggest (and a good suggestion, I agree) to put your code in the jquery load method's callback, on the calling page and not the called page. However I have unique scripts that may appear in certain resources, so I would not want to do that for every load and nor do I necessarily know what these scripts will be.
Here is a test setup to demonstrate what I'm trying to do. The short summary is that when I load partial.htm from main.htm, its script does not fire.
main.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>main file</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="links">
<li>some page1</li>
<li>some page 2</li>
<li>some other partial page</li>
</ul>
<div id="panel" style="display:none; padding:20px; background-color:#CCC;">
LOADED CONTENT WILL GO HERE
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#links a').click(function() {
var $panel = $('#panel');
$panel.show();
$panel.html('Please wait...');
var href = $(this).attr('href');
$('#panel').load(href + ' #content');
return false;
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
OK, very simple functionality on this page. Imagine there are many more links, and some of them may require scripting while others do not.
Here is partial.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>partial file</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<p>Hey, I am the partial file!</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert('I am some JS in the partial file! But sadly I do not execute...');
</script>
</div>
<div>
I am some other content on the page that won't be included by jquery.load()...
</div>
</body>
</html>
Notice that my script in partial.htm does not fire. So, my question remains: how to get this to fire, excluding any answers that tell me to put this in the .load() method's callback. (This would be because I may not have the fore-knowledge of which scripts these partial pages may contain or require!)
Thank you!
Update #1:
I suppose an acceptable answer is simply "you can't." However, I'd like to know if this is definitively the case. I haven't been able to find anything that officially states this yet.
Also, when I use firebug to inspect the panel region afterwards, there is no script element present at all. It is as if it is being parsed out by load.
Update #2:
I've narrowed this down to be a problem only when using the selector as part of the href. Loading the entire "somepage.html" will execute the script, but loading "somepage.html #someregion" does not.
$panel.load('somepage.html'); // my script fires!
$panel.load('somepage.html #someregion'); // script does not fire
I'm going to try and hunt down why this may be the case in the jquery source...
Well it seems that this is by design. Apparently to make IE happy, the rest of us suffer. Here's the relevant code in the jquery source:
// See if a selector was specified
self.html( selector ?
// Create a dummy div to hold the results
jQuery("<div/>")
// inject the contents of the document in, removing the scripts
// to avoid any 'Permission Denied' errors in IE
.append(res.responseText.replace(/<script(.|\s)*?\/script>/g, ""))
// Locate the specified elements
.find(selector) :
// If not, just inject the full result
res.responseText );
I'm wondering if, instead of just stripping out the scripts, I could modify the jquery source to include them in some other way that makes IE happy? I still have yet to find anything else on the web discussing this matter, I'm sure I'm not the only person stumped by this?
I have run across issues before with IE not running injected <script>s that didn't contain the defer attribute. This discussion thread has some good information about the topic: innerHTML and SCRIPT tag
Assuming I have the following two JQuery functions -
The first, which works:
$("#myLink_931").click(function ()
{
$(".931").toggle();
});
and the second, which doesn't work:
$("#myLink_931").click(function ()
{
var class_name = $(this).attr("id").split('_')[1];
$("."+class_name).toggle();
});
I want to replace the first with the second, which is more generalizable, but can't find any obvious syntactical problem with the second which might be preventing it from working.
My guess is there's a problem with the syntax:
"."+class_name
Is this bad syntax?
They work the same.
Working Demo
This is what debuggers are for. Step through the code and make sure class_name is calculated as you expect. The debugger should let you view the result of "."+class_name as well.
I created a sample page and dropped your example code in and it worked as expected. Perhaps there is another issue on the page? Can you post a link to the actual site?
Here is the code I used:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="scripts/script.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myLink_931">Click Me</div>
<div class="931">HI</div>
</body>
</html>
and the script file:
(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#myLink_931").click(function() {
var class_name = $(this).attr("id").split('_')[1];
$("." + class_name).toggle();
});
});
})(jQuery);
Class names and IDs aren't allowed to start with numbers - doesn't explain why one works and the other doesn't though. Give us a bit more info as above.
Is it possible you're not wrapping your 2nd example in the ready syntax [i.e. $(function(){ })] which would mean that the elements haven't been created in the DOM yet?