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Click events from two scripts on same element?

Edit: I think I got the solution! I want to try and fix this myself before I ask for further help = )
First script inhibits the second one from functioning as the click event from the first one overides the second one. Because the second one does not function it is impossible to open the drop down menu to select a list item to trigger the first scripts click.
What I tried was replacing all return false statements with event.stopPropagation(). Didnt work however. Tried re-ordering my scripts but that failed as well. I was thinking of making my second script target another parent div but that didnt work either.I also tried event.stopImmediatePropagation() and .bind methods.
Any idea?
First script that makes the drop down function. Contains click event.
function DropDown(el) {
this.f = el;
this.placeholder = this.f.children('span');
this.opts = this.f.find('ul.dropdown > li');
this.val = '';
this.index = -1;
this.initEvents();
}
DropDown.prototype = {
initEvents : function() {
var obj = this;
obj.f.on('click', function(event){
$(this).toggleClass('active');
return false;
});
obj.opts.on('click',function(){
var opt = $(this);
obj.val = opt.text();
obj.index = opt.index();
obj.placeholder.text(obj.val);
});
},
getValue : function() {
return this.val;
},
getIndex : function() {
return this.index;
}
}
$(function() {
var f = new DropDown( $('#f') );
$(document).click(function() {
// all dropdowns
$('.filter-buttons').removeClass('active');
});
});
Second script that does the filtering, also contains click event:
jQuery(document).ready(function(e) {
var t = $(".filter-container");
t.imagesLoaded(function() {
t.isotope({
itemSelector: "figure",
filter: "*",
resizable: false,
animationEngine: "jquery"
})
});
$(".filter-buttons a").click(function(evt) {
var n = $(this).parents(".filter-buttons");
n.find(".selected").removeClass("selected");
$(this).addClass("selected");
var r = $(this).attr("data-filter");
t.isotope({
filter: r
});
evt.preventDefault();
});
$(window).resize(function() {
var n = $(window).width();
t.isotope("reLayout")
}).trigger("resize")
});
html structure
<div id="f" class="filter-buttons" tabindex="1">
<span>Choose Genre</span>
<ul class="dropdown">
<li>All</li>
<li>Electronic</li>
<li>Popular</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

This doesn't really solve your problem but I was bored while drinking my coffee and felt like helping you write your dropdown plugin a little nicer
My comments below are inline with code. For uninterrupted code, see DropDown complete paste.
We start with your standard jQuery wrapper (function($){ ... })(jQuery)
(function($) {
// dropdown constructor
function DropDown($elem) {
First we'll make some private vars to store information. By using this.foo = ... we expose things (probably) unnecessarily. If you need access to these vars, you can always create functions to read them. This is much better encapsulation imo.
// private vars
var $placeholder = $elem.children("span");
var $opts = $elem.find("ul.dropdown > li")
var value = "";
var index = -1;
Now we'll define our event listeners and functions those event listeners might depend on. What's nice here is that these functions don't have to access everything via this.* or as you were writing obj.f.* etc.
// private functions
function onParentClick(event) {
$elem.toggleClass("active");
event.preventDefault();
}
function onChildClick(event) {
setValue($(this));
event.preventDefault();
}
function setValue($opt) {
value = $opt.text();
index = $opt.index();
$placeholder.text(value);
}
Here's some property descriptors to read the index and value
// properties for reading .index and .value
Object.defineProperty(this, "value", {
get: function() { return value; }
});
Object.defineProperty(this, "index", {
get: function() { return index; }
});
Lastly, let's track each instance of DropDown in an array so that the user doesn't have to define a special listener to deactivate each
// track each instance of
DropDown._instances.push(this);
}
This is the array we'll use to track instances
// store all instances in array
DropDown._instances = [];
This event listener deactivate each "registered" instance of DropDown
// deactivate all
DropDown.deactiveAll = function deactiveAll(event) {
$.each(DropDown._instances, function(idx, $elem) {
$elem.removeClass("active");
});
}
Here's the document listener defined right in the plugin! The user no longer has to set this up
// listener to deactiveAll dropdowns
$(document).click(DropDown.deactiveAll);
Might as well make it a jQuery plugin since everything in our DropDown constructor relies upon jQuery. This let's the user do var x = $("foo").dropdown();
// jQuery plugin
$.fn.dropdown = function dropdown() {
return new DropDown($(this));
};
Close the wrapper
})(jQuery);
Now here's how you use it
$(function() {
var x = $('#f').dropdown();
// get the value
f.value;
// get the index
f.index;
});
Anyway, yeah I know this doesn't really help you with your click listeners, but I hope this is still useful information to you. Off to the Post Office now!

I think you're going to need to simplify this to figure out what's going on. There's actually not enough information to see what elements the events are being attached to here.
For argument's sake, open the console and try the following:
$(document).on('click', function() { console.log('first'); return false; });
$(document).on('click', function() { console.log('second'); return false; });
Then click in the page. You'll see that both events are triggered. It might well be that your code is actually attaching the events to different elements (you don't say anywhere). If that's the case then you need to understand how event bubbling works in the DOM.
When you trigger an event, say a click on an element, that event will fire on that element, and then on it's parent, then grandparent etc all the way to the root node at the top.
You can change this behaviour by calling functions in the event itself. evt.stopPropagation tells the event to not bubble up to the ancestor nodes. evt.preventDefault tells the browser not to carry out the default behaviour for a node (eg, moving to the page specified in the href for an A tag).
In jQuery, return false from an event handler is a shortcut for, evt.preventDefault and evt.stopPropagation. So that will stop the event dead in its tracks.
I imagine you have something like:
<div event_two_on_here>
<a event_one_on_here>
</div>
If the thing that handles event_one_on_here calls stopPropagation then event_two_on_here will never even know it has happened. Calling stopPropagation explicitly, or implicitly (return false) will kill the event before it travels to the parent node/event handler.
UPDATE: In your case the issue is that the handler on .filter-buttons a is stopping the propagation (so #f doesn't get to run its handler).
$(".filter-buttons a").click(function(evt) {
// your code here...
// Don't do this - it stops the event from bubbling up to the #f div
// return false;
// instead, you'll probably just want to prevent the browser default
// behaviour so it doesn't jump to the top of the page ('url/#')
evt.preventDefault();
});

attach an event to the body when ul is visible, then remove it when invisible

I have a <ul> that when clicked, toggles the visibility of another <ul>. How can I attach an event to the body of the page when the <ul>s are revealed so that the body will hide the <ul>.
I am new to writing these sorts things which bubble, and I cannot figure out why what I have done so far seems to work intermittently. When clicked several times, it fails to add the class open when the secondary <ul> is opened.
And of course, there may be an entirely better way to do this.
$(document).on('click', '.dd_deploy', function (e) {
var ul = $(this).children('ul');
var height = ul.css('height');
var width = ul.css('width');
ul.css('top', "-" + height);
ul.fadeToggle(50, function () {
//add open class depending on what's toggled to
if (ul.hasClass('open')) {
ul.removeClass('open');
} else {
ul.addClass('open');
}
//attach click event to the body to hide the ul when
//body is clickd
$(document).on('click.ddClick', ('*'), function (e) {
e.stopPropagation();
//if (ul.hasClass('open')) {
ul.hide();
ul.removeClass('open')
$(document).off('click.ddClick');
// }
});
});
});​
http://jsfiddle.net/JYVwR/

I'd suggest not binding a click event in a click event, even if you are unbinding it. Instead, i would do it this way:
http://jsfiddle.net/JYVwR/2/
$(document).on('click', function (e) {
if ( $(e.target).is(".dd_deploy") ) {
var ul = $(e.target).children('ul');
var height = ul.css('height');
var width = ul.css('width');
ul.css('top', "-" + height);
ul.fadeToggle(50, function () {
//add open class depending on what's toggled to
if (ul.hasClass('open')) {
ul.removeClass('open');
} else {
ul.addClass('open');
}
});
}
else {
$('.dd_deploy').children('ul:visible').fadeOut(50,function(){
$(this).removeClass("open");
})
}
});​
If you need to further prevent clicking on the opened menu from closing the menu, add an else if that tests for children of that menu.

You dont' really need all that code. All you need is jquery's toggle class to accomplish what you want. simple code like one below should work.
Example Code
$(document).ready(function() {
$('ul.dd_deploy').click(function(){
$('ul.dd').toggle();
});
});​​​​
Firstly, you are defining a document.on function within a document.on function which is fundamentally wrong, you just need to check it once and execute the function once the document is ready.
Secondly why do you want to bind an event to body.click ? it's not really a good idea.
Suggestion
I think you should also look at the hover function which might be useful to you in this case.
Working Fiddles
JSfiddle with click function
JSfiddle with hover function

JQuery - using .on with element insertion

I have a function which creates a tooltip for specific objects. Currently, I am running a tooltip function after ajax insertions to create and append the new tooltip objects. I am curious if there is a way to use .on() to auto-run the tooltip function on insertion, rather than manually running it.
For instance:
$('[title]').on('inserted', function(){
tooltip(this);
});
I did some reading and it looks like custom triggers might be the way to go, but I'd love if it something like this existed :)

Here's the pseudo code as per request.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('body').on('added','*',function() {
console.log($(this),'has been added');
});
$('body').append('<div>This is the first div</div>');
});
(function($) {
fncs = {
append:$.fn.append,
appendTo:$.fn.appendTo
// etc.
}
// we're assigning the original functions in this
// object to be executed (applied) later
$.fn.append = function() {
fncs.append.apply(this,arguments);
$(this).children().last().trigger('added');
return $(this);
}
$.fn.appendTo = function() {
fncs.appendTo.apply(this,arguments);
return $(this);
// no need to trigger because this function calls the one
// above for some reason, and it's taking care of the
// triggering the right element(s I think)
}
})(jQuery);

This is not the response you're looking for, but I would not attach tooltips directly on elements. Instead I would use a class for the ones I want the tooltip to show on mouseover and use the .on() event handler in the following way:
$('body').on('mouseover','.tooltip',function() {
// show tooltip
console.log($(this).data('tooltip'));
return false;
}).on('mouseout','.tooltip',function() {
// hide tooltip
return false;
});
So that whatever you add to the body (not necessarily as a direct child) will trigger this event handler.
I would probably just create an additional function to assign the tooltip data to each element along with the class.
$.fn.extend({
tooltip:function(text) {
text = text || '';
return $(this).each(function() {
$(this).data('tooltip',text).addClass('tooltip');
});
}
});
$('#someID').tooltip("Click me!");
$('button').tooltip("I'm a button");

How to do early binding for event handler in JavaScript? (example with jQuery)

JavaScript's late binding is great. But how do I early bind when I want to?
I am using jQuery to add links with event handlers in a loop to a div. The variable 'aTag ' changes in the loop. When I click the links later, all links alert the same message, which is the last value of 'aTag'. How do I bind a different alert message to all links?
All links should alert with the value that 'aTag' had when the event handler was added, not when it was clicked.
for (aTag in tagList) {
if (tagList.hasOwnProperty(aTag)) {
nextTag = $('');
nextTag.text(aTag);
nextTag.click(function() { alert(aTag); });
$('#mydiv').append(nextTag);
$('#mydiv').append(' ');
}
}

You can pass data to the bind method:
nextTag.bind('click', {aTag: aTag}, function(event) {
alert(event.data.aTag);
});
This will make a copy of aTag, so each event handler will have different values for it. Your use case is precisely the reason this parameter to bind exists.
Full code:
for (aTag in tagList) {
if (tagList.hasOwnProperty(aTag)) {
nextTag = $('');
nextTag.text(aTag);
nextTag.bind('click', {aTag: aTag}, function(event) {
alert(event.data.aTag);
});
$('#mydiv').append(nextTag);
$('#mydiv').append(' ');
}
}

You can also make a wrapper function that takes the text to alert as a parameter, and returns the event handler
function makeAlertHandler(txt) {
return function() { alert(txt); }
}
and replace
nextTag.click(function() { alert(aTag); });
with
nextTag.click(makeAlertHandler(aTag));

You need to keep a copy of this variable, like this:
for (aTag in tagList) {
if (tagList.hasOwnProperty(aTag)) {
nextTag = $('');
nextTag.text(aTag);
var laTag = aTag;
nextTag.click(function() { alert(laTag); });
$('#mydiv').append(nextTag);
$('#mydiv').append(' ');
}
}
The aTag variable is changing each time you loop, at the end of the loop it's left as the last item in the loop. However, each of the functions you created point at this same variable. Instead, you want a variable per, so make a local copy like I have above.
You can also shorten this down a lot with chaining, but I feel it clouds the point in this case, since the issue is scoping and references.

Is there an easier way to reference the source element for an event?

I'm new to the whole JavaScript and jQuery coding but I'm currently doing this is my HTML:
<a id="tog_table0"
href="javascript:toggle_table('#tog_table0', '#hideable_table0');">show</a>
And then I have some slightly ponderous code to tweak the element:
function toggle_table(button_id, table_id) {
// Find the elements we need
var table = $(table_id);
var button = $(button_id);
// Toggle the table
table.slideToggle("slow", function () {
if ($(this).is(":hidden"))
{
button.text("show");
} else {
button.text("hide");
}
});
}
I'm mainly wondering if there is a neater way to reference the source element rather than having to pass two IDs down to my function?

Use 'this' inside the event. Typically in jQuery this refers to the element that invoked the handler.
Also try and avoid inline script event handlers in tags. it is better to hook those events up in document ready.
NB The code below assumes the element invoking the handler (the link) is inside the table so it can traverse to it using closest. This may not be the case and you may need to use one of the other traversing options depending on your markup.
$(function(){
$('#tog_table0').click( toggle_table )
});
function toggle_table() {
//this refers to the element clicked
var $el = $(this);
// get the table - assuming the element is inside the table
var $table = $el.closest('table');
// Toggle the table
$table.slideToggle("slow", function () {
$el.is(":hidden") ? $el.text("show") : $el.text("hide");
}
}

You can do this:
show
and change your javascript to this:
$('a.tableHider').click(function() {
var table = $(this.name); // this refers to the link which was clicked
var button = $(this);
table.slideToggle("slow", function() {
if ($(this).is(':hidden')) { // this refers to the element being animated
button.html('show');
}
else {
button.html('hide');
}
});
return false;
});
edit: changed script to use the name attribute and added a return false to the click handler.

I'm sure this doesn't answer your question, but there's a nifty plugin for expanding table rows, might be useful to check it out:
http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/07/20/Expand-table-rows-with-jQuery-jExpand-plugin.aspx