I have the following code that I use to retrieve the hostname of a server and append some text (a filename) to it and display it on an html page.
<script type="text/javascript">
function getBaseUrl() {
var re = new RegExp(/^.*\//);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(getBaseUrl() + "filename.ext");
</script>
That generates a server URL such as https://fqdn/folder/filename.ext which is exactly what I need. Everything I have tried to create a link from it breaks things. How do I make that generated text clickable?
It's pretty straight forward to do -
const link = getBaseUrl()+ "filename.ext";
createLinkNode(link, document.body);
// defining a function to create a link node, however this isn't neccessary,
// you could just hard code the logic above.
// I wouldn't recommend setting innerHtml in lieu of making a text node however.
function createLinkNode(url, parent) {
const linkTextNode = document.createTextNode(url);
const linkNode = document.createElement('a');
linkNode.href = url;
linkNode.appendChild(linkTextNode);
parent.appendChild(linkNode);
}
example: https://jsfiddle.net/f4wxvLky/3/
You'd need to wrap it in an <a href=''></a>. This is easiest if you assign the <a> element in question to a variable, as you can then use .href to modify the link, along with .innerHTML to modify the text:
function getBaseUrl() {
return 'http://www.google.com/';
}
const output = document.getElementById('output');
output.innerHTML = 'Link Title';
output.href = getBaseUrl() + "filename.ext";
<a id="output" href=""></a>
If you don't have access to the HTML, this can still be done with raw JavaScript by simply including the <a href=''></a> wrapper in your output, being careful to also output the single quotes:
function getBaseUrl() {
return 'http://www.google.com/';
}
document.write("<a href='" + getBaseUrl() + "filename.ext" + "'>Link Title</a>");
Try this out, I assume getBaseUrl() is working although this doesn't look like. Just a reminder that <a> tag needs to be under the <script> block
<script>
function getBaseUrl() {
var re = new RegExp(/^.*\//);
}
</script>
Click
I know how to append a image to a known tag. e.g.
//html
<div class="ImageContainer"></div>
//JS
var image = new Image;
image.src = '/Public/Images/image.png';
image.appendTo($('.ImageContainer'));
but how to find a certain tag(the figure tag here) and append the image?
I could locate the figure tag with '.find()':
var ImageContainer = $('<div><figure></figure></div>').
console.log(ImageContainer.find('figure').html());
but failed to append the image to it:
image.appendTo(ImageContainer.find('figure')); //doesn't work
If you have an image element with an id you can select it like so:
var $image = '<img src="/Public/Images/image.png" />';
Then so find the figure elemnt:
$(ImageContainer).find('figure').append($image);
Try below code.
1) Stored image url in variable name $img.
2) Find the div using class name 'image' ($('.image'))
3) Appended image to div
HTML
<div class="image"> </div>
JS
var $img = '<img src="https://skypeblogs.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/skype-button.png"/>';
$('.image').append($img);
JSFIDDLE DEMO
if you are using jquery, you can just do
var htmlString = '<div><figure><img src="some image src" /></figure></div>';
$('#ImageContainer').html(htmlString);
but if you are wanting to insert the div/figure and image separately, then you'd be best giving it some sort of identifier, i.e.
var htmlString = '<div><figure id="myFig"></figure></div>';
$('#ImageContainer').html(htmlString);
$('#myFig').html('<img src="" />');
I have been trying to create a hyperlink using a variable defined earlier in the same function to append:
var NAMEVARIABLE = responseArray[i].Name;
var TITLE_Game = document.createElement("p");
TITLE_Game.className = "TITLE_Game";
TITLE_Game.innerHTML = "<a href='Game_NAMEVARIABLE.html'>Games</a>";
I have tried the following using the solution found here: Passing Javascript variable to <a href >
Games
But that didn't work. I then tried adding an ID:
<a id="link" href="Game_.html?propid=">Games</a>
And adding this to the script: document.links["link"].href += NAMEVARIABLE;
This didn't work either. These links are occuring within Isotope, which I've run into newbie-problems making sure my JSON data is loading before the script executes. That's all working now, but I'm not sure if the reason the above methods aren't working is because of a similar issue, or if they simply are not the proper way to go about this.
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you
first of all, try debug your variable :
var NAMEVARIABLE = responseArray[i].Name;
alert(NAMEVARIABLE);
is it returning the desired return value or not.
and then the second thing, in your first style of script, try this instead :
TITLE_Game.innerHTML = "<a href='Game_"+NAMEVARIABLE+".html'>Games</a>";
I assumed you have (static) html collection with game_[number_id].html format
and if it's so, you can try further with your second style of script, and change it to this :
Games
you need to learn further about javascript strings concatenation
Use string concatenation to build up your inner html string.
Example:
var nameVariable = 'Foo';
var innerHtmlText = nameVariable + 'bar';
$('#someElement').html(innerHtmlText);
The contents of someElement will then contain the text: 'Foobar';
You just need string concatenation. modify link's href onclick would be considered as spam in most modern browser.
<div id="result">
the result:
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var name = "foo_bar";
var url = "page.html?key=" + name; //or.. "page_" + name + ".html";
var link = 'link here';
$("#result").addClass("g_title");
$("#result").append(link);
</script>
This can be achieved by either (i.e. pure JS or jQuery) ways without much hassle. Suppose you have this <a> element with some href
<a id="Link" href="/collection/categories/">Games</a>
Pure JavaScript way:
window.onload = function() {
var link= document.getElementById('Link'),
url = link.href + responseArray[i].Name + '.html';
link.setAttribute('href', url);
}
Using Jquery:
$(function(){
var link= $('#Link'),
url = link.attr('href') + responseArray[i].Name + '.html';
link.attr('href', url);
});
I'm completely new at javascript and I'm wondering about something really elementary here. I've got an iFrame that I want a dynamic src on. This src(source) should just be a variable. And then a script sets that variable before the frame is loaded.
It's actually a webpart in Sharepoint 2010, so I set up the webpart and edit it's HTML source to something like this:
<script language="JavaScript">
var qs = getQueryStrings();
var myParam = qs["myParam"];
function getQueryStrings() {
var assoc = {};
var decode = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(/\+/g, " ")); };
var queryString = location.search.substring(1);
var keyValues = queryString.split('&');
for(var i in keyValues) {
var key = keyValues[i].split('=');
if (key.length > 1) {
assoc[decode(key[0])] = decode(key[1]);
}
}
return assoc;
} </script>
<iframe height="500" src="(myParam);" width="800"></iframe>
I'm not even sure the syntax is correct. Basically, I want to insert the variable into the src of the iframe.
you have to give some class or ID to your Iframe.
And then you can call a function which will give src to i frame dyanmically.
from client side use this:
$('#ID_of_Iframe').attr('src','NEW SRC hERE');
Example: $('#ID_of_Iframe').attr('src','www.google.com');
Make your links like this:
File1.PDF
or:
<iframe name='myPdfFrameName'></iframe>
File1.PDF
function loadFrame(href) {
window.frames['myPdfFrameName'].location = href;
return false;
}
EDIT: Easiest is probably using target attribute of a link:
<a href='file1.pdf' target='myPdfFrameName'>File1.pdf</a>
I'm trying to create and manipulate the Pin It button after page load. When i change the button properties with js, it should be rerendered to get the functionality of pinning dynamically loaded images. So, does Pinterest have any method like Facebook's B.XFBML.parse() function?
Thanks...
Just add data-pin-build attribute to the SCRIPT tag:
<script defer
src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"
data-pin-build="parsePinBtns"></script>
That causes pinit.js to expose its internal build function to the global window object as parsePinBtns function.
Then, you can use it to parse links in the implicit element or all of the links on the page:
// parse the whole page
window.parsePinBtns();
// parse links in #pin-it-buttons element only
window.parsePinBtns(document.getElementById('pin-it-buttons'));
Hint: to show zero count just add data-pin-zero="1" to SCRIPT tag.
The best way to do this:
Remove the iframe of the Pin It button you want to manipulate
Append the html for the new button manipulating it as you wish
Realod their script - i.e. using jQuery:
$.ajax({ url: 'http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js', dataType: 'script', cache:true});
To render a pin-it button after a page has loaded you can use:
<a href="..pin it link.." id="mybutton" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="none">
<img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" width="43" height="21" title="Pin It" />
</a>
<script>
var element = document.getElementById('mybutton');
(function(x){ for (var n in x) if (n.indexOf('PIN_')==0) return x[n]; return null; })(window).f.render.buttonPin(element);
</script>
Assuming of course the assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js is already loaded on the page. The render object has some other useful methods like buttonBookmark, buttonFollow, ebmedBoard, embedPin, embedUser.
I built on Derrek's solution (and fixed undeclared variable issue) to make it possible to dynamically load the pinterest button, so it can't possibly slow down load times. Only tangentially related to the original question but I thought I'd share anyway.
at end of document:
<script type="text/javascript">
addPinterestButton = function (url, media, description) {
var js, href, html, pinJs;
pinJs = '//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js';
//url = escape(url);
url = encodeURIComponent(url);
media = encodeURIComponent(media);
description = encodeURIComponent(description);
href = 'http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=' + url + '&media=' + media + '&description=' + description;
html = '<img border="0" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" />';
$('#pinterestOption').html(html);
//add pinterest js
js = document.createElement('script');
js.src = pinJs;
js.type = 'text/javascript';
document.body.appendChild(js);
}
</script>
in document ready function:
addPinterestButton('pageURL', 'img', 'description');//replace with actual data
in your document where you want the pinterest button to appear, just add an element with the id pinterestOption, i.e.
<div id="pinterestOption"></div>
hope that helps someone!
Here's what I did.
First I looked at pinit.js, and determined that it replaces specially-marked anchor tags with IFRAMEs. I figured that I could write javascript logic to get the hostname used by the src attribute on the generated iframes.
So, I inserted markup according to the normal recommendations by pinterest, but I put the anchor tag into an invisible div.
<div id='dummy' style='display:none;'>
<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?
url=http%3A%2F%2Fpage%2Furl
&media=http%3A%2F%2Fimage%2Furl"
class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js">
</script>
Then, immediately after that, I inserted a script to slurp up the hostname for the pinterest CDN, from the injected iframe.
//
// pint-reverse.js
//
// logic to reverse-engineer pinterest buttons.
//
// The standard javascript module from pinterest replaces links to
// http://pinterest.com/create/button with links to some odd-looking
// url based at cloudfront.net. It also normalizes the URLs.
//
// Not sure why they went through all the trouble. It does not work for
// a dynamic page where new links get inserted. The pint.js code
// assumes a static page, and is designed to run "once" at page creation
// time.
//
// This module spelunks the changes made by that script and
// attempts to replicate it for dynamically-generated buttons.
//
pinterestOptions = {};
(function(obj){
function spelunkPinterestIframe() {
var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe'),
k = [], iframe, i, L1 = iframes.length, src, split, L2;
for (i=0; i<L1; i++) {
k.push(iframes[i]);
}
do {
iframe = k.pop();
src = iframe.attributes.getNamedItem('src');
if (src !== null) {
split = src.value.split('/');
L2 = split.length;
obj.host = split[L2 - 2];
obj.script = split[L2 - 1].split('?')[0];
//iframe.parentNode.removeChild(iframe);
}
} while (k.length>0);
}
spelunkPinterestIframe();
}(pinterestOptions));
Then,
function getPinMarkup(photoName, description) {
var loc = document.location,
pathParts = loc.pathname.split('/'),
pageUri = loc.protocol + '//' + loc.hostname + loc.pathname,
href = '/' + pathToImages + photoName,
basePath = (pathParts.length == 3)?'/'+pathParts[1]:'',
mediaUri = loc.protocol+'//'+loc.hostname+basePath+href,
pinMarkup;
description = description || null;
pinMarkup = '<iframe class="pin-it-button" ' + 'scrolling="no" ' +
'src="//' + pinterestOptions.host + '/' + pinterestOptions.script +
'?url=' + encodeURIComponent(pageUri) +
'&media=' + encodeURIComponent(mediaUri);
if (description === null) {
description = 'Insert standard description here';
}
else {
description = 'My site - ' + description;
}
pinMarkup += '&description=' + encodeURIComponent(description);
pinMarkup += '&title=' + encodeURIComponent("Pin this " + tagType);
pinMarkup += '&layout=horizontal&count=1">';
pinMarkup += '</iframe>';
return pinMarkup;
}
And then use it from jQuery like this:
var pinMarkup = getPinMarkup("snap1.jpg", "Something clever here");
$('#pagePin').empty(); // a div...
$('#pagePin').append(pinMarkup);
I rewrote the Pinterest button code to support the parsing of Pinterest tags after loading AJAX content, similar to FB.XFBML.parse() or gapi.plusone.go(). As a bonus, an alternate JavaScript file in the project supports an HTML5-valid syntax.
Check out the PinterestPlus project at GitHub.
The official way to do this is by setting the "data-pin-build" attribute when loading the script:
<script defer="defer" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" data-pin-build="parsePins"></script>
Then you can render your buttons dynamically like so:
// render buttons inside a scoped DOM element
window.parsePins(buttonDomElement);
// render the whole page
window.parsePins();
There is also another method on this site which lets you render them in JavaScript without the script tag.
Here is what i did.. A slight modification on #Derrick Grigg to make it work on multiple pinterest buttons on the page after an AJAX reload.
refreshPinterestButton = function () {
var url, media, description, pinJs, href, html, newJS, js;
var pin_url;
var pin_buttons = $('div.pin-it a');
pin_buttons.each(function( index ) {
pin_url = index.attr('href');
url = escape(getUrlVars(pin_URL)["url"]);
media = escape(getUrlVars(pin_URL)["media"]);
description = escape(getUrlVars(pin_URL)["description"]);
href = 'http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=' + url + '&media=' + media + '&description=' + description;
html = '<img border="0" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" />';
index.parent().html(html);
});
//remove and add pinterest js
pinJs = '//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js';
js = $('script[src*="assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"]');
js.remove();
js = document.createElement('script');
js.src = pinJs;
js.type = 'text/javascript';
document.body.appendChild(js);
}
});
function getUrlVars(pin_URL)
{
var vars = [], hash;
var hashes = pin_URL.slice(pin_URL.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
{
hash = hashes[i].split('=');
vars.push(hash[0]);
vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
}
return vars;
}
Try reading this post http://dgrigg.com/blog/2012/04/04/dynamic-pinterest-button/ it uses a little javascript to replace the pinterest iframe with a new button and then reloads the pinit.js file. Below is the javascript to do the trick
refreshPinterestButton = function (url, media, description) {
var js, href, html, pinJs;
url = escape(url);
media = escape(media);
description = escape(description);
href = 'http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=' + url + '&media=' + media + '&description=' + description;
html = '<img border="0" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" />';
$('div.pin-it').html(html);
//remove and add pinterest js
pinJs = $('script[src*="assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"]');
pinJs.remove();
js = document.createElement('script');
js.src = pinJs.attr('src');
js.type = 'text/javascript';
document.body.appendChild(js);
}
Their pinit.js file, referenced in their "Pin it" button docs, doesn't expose any globals. It runs once and doesn't leave a trace other than the iframe it creates.
You could inject that file again to "parse" new buttons. Their JS looks at all anchor tags when it is run and replaces ones with class="pin-it-button" with their iframe'd button.
this works fine for me: http://www.mediadevelopment.no/projects/pinit/ It picks up all data on click event
I tried to adapt their code to work the same way (drop in, and forget about it), with the addition that you can make a call to Pinterest.init() to have any "new" buttons on the page (eg. ajax'd in, created dynamically, etc.) turned into the proper button.
Project: https://github.com/onassar/JS-Pinterest
Raw: https://raw.github.com/onassar/JS-Pinterest/master/Pinterest.js
As of June 2020, Pinterest updated the pin js code to v2. That's why data-pin-build might not work on
<script defer="defer" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" data-pin-build="parsePins"></script>
Now it works on pinit_v2.js
<script async defer src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit_v2.js" data-pin-build="parsePins"></script>