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How to hide certain characters within an html input list?

I have an html input list, with an associated datalist, defined as follows:
<input list="mylist" id="my-input" name="friend-name"
placeholder="Begin typing friend's name here..."
required class="form-control">
The list itself (and the associated datalist) is working fine. However, each of my entries are of the form: "String [numeric_id]"
What I am wondering is if there is any way that I can somehow hide
the [numeric_id] part before the form is submitted.
I have looked at the pattern attribute, but that seems to limit the
actual data allowed in the input, which isn't what I want - I just
want the part between square brackets [] to be hidden, but still
submitted to the form.
It would be ok to move it to another input of type=hidden as well.
Is there any possible way to do that?
#isherwood, here is my form tag:
<form action="/chat_forwarding/modal_edit_msg.php" id="fwd-form" method="POST" class="form-inline" style="display: block;">

If you're not using any framework that support binding, you should listen to input events and update a hidden input based on that.
This is a function that may give you the idea:
let realInput = document.getElementById('real-input');
let userInput = document.getElementById('user-input');
userInput.addEventListener('input', function(value) {
const inputValue = value.target.value;
realInput.value = inputValue; // update the hidden input
const userInputResult = inputValue.match(/\[[^\[]*\]/); // the regex for [numberic_id]
if (userInputResult) {
userInput.value = inputValue.substring(0, [userInputResult.index - 1]); // -1 is to remove the space between the 'string' and the '[numeric_id]'
}
});

I should have mentioned that my input is also using Awesomplete (and jQuery). For this reason, binding normal events like keyup did not work (the event would fire whenever a user typed a key). I was able to achieve the functionality I wanted with the awesomplete-selectcomplete event as follows (this will add a hidden input element with value of the id from a string of the form "String [id]"):
$("#my-input").on('awesomplete-selectcomplete',function(){
var fullStr = this.value;
//alert(fullStr);
var regex = /\[[0-9]+\]/g;
var match = regex.exec(fullStr);
//alert(match[0]);
if (match != null) // match found for [id]
{
var fullName = fullStr.substr(0,fullStr.lastIndexOf("[")-1);
var x = match[0];
var id = x.substr(1, x.lastIndexOf("]")-1);
//alert(id);
$('#fwd-form').prepend('<input type="hidden" name="h_uid" value="' + id + '">');
$('#my-input').val(fullName);
}
});

How to check if a page comes after clicking the back button using jQuery?

I have a form where I am calculating the total amount using jQuery.
The function I created for that is updateTotal();
and the form action is another page and the action page has this button:
<button class="btn btn-success" onclick="history.go(-1);" type="submit" name="edit">EDIT</button>
so when the user clicks on the EDIT button page goes back to the form again (first page) and all the filled up details are there except the repetitve fields created using jQuery.
The sample form is here in js fiddle
I just want to run this function updateTotal(); if the user comes to the form by clicking the EDIT (basically browse go back) button..
Is there any way to do this in jQuery?
UPDATES FOR FUTURE REFERENCE - I SOLVED IT LIKE THIS
html:
<input type="text" id="amount" name="amount[]" placeholder="Amount" required="required" class="form-control inputChangeVal reqF reqFamount" data-js-input-type="number" />
and the jQuery :
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var hiddenTot = jQuery('.reqFamount').val() ;
jQuery(".totalAmount").val(hiddenTot);
});

Define a hidden field to store the computed value.
<input type="hidden" id="hiddenTotal" />
Then store the calculated value to the hidden field with Id 'hiddenTotal'.
function updateTotal() {
var price = 0;
$(".inputChangeVal").each(function() {
var t = parseFloat(jQuery(this).val(), 10);
price = price + t;
});
var total = price.toFixed(2);
$(".totalAmount").val(total);
$("#hiddenTotal").val(total);
}
Then when the browse back is triggered the hiddenfield is automatically filled by the browser.
Next check when the document is ready, read the value of hiddenTotal and write to totalAmount.
$(document).ready(function (){
// read value and set value of totalAmount to hiddentotal;
var hiddenTotal = $("#hiddenTotal").val() || 0; //use the hiddenTotal value or if not present set 0 as the default value
$(".totalAmount").val(hiddentotal)
}
Now totalAmount is restored. This even works when you leave the page and return using your browsers history.

Changing input box also need to find check box checked or not in JS

I have input box along with checkbox in table <td> like below,
<td>
<input class="Comment" type="text" data-db="comment" data-id="{{uid}}"/>
<input type="checkbox" id="summary" title="Check to set as Summary" />
</td>
Based on check box only the content of input box will be stored in DB.
In the JS file, I tried like
var updateComment = function( eventData )
{
var target = eventData.target;
var dbColumn = $(target).attr('data-db');
var api = $('#api').val();
var newValue = $(target).val();
var rowID = $(target).attr('data-id');
var summary = $('#summary').is(':checked');
params = { "function":"updatecomments", "id": rowID, "summary": summary };
params[dbColumn] = newValue;
jQuery.post( api, params);
};
$('.Comment').change(updateComment);
But the var summary always returning false.
I tried so many ways prop('checked'),(#summary:checked).val() all are returning false only.
How to solve this problem?

Looks like you have multiple rows of checkboxes + input fields in your table. So doing $('#summary').is(':checked') will return the value of first matching element since id in a DOM should be unique.
So, modify your code like this:
<td>
<input class="Comment" type="text" data-db="comment" data-id="{{uid}}"/>
<input type="checkbox" class="summary" title="Check to set as Summary" />
</td>
And, instead of $('#summary').is(':checked'); you can write like this:
var summary = $(target).parent().find(".summary").is(':checked');
By doing this, we are making sure that we are checking the value of checkbox with the selected input field only.
Update: For listening on both the conditions i.e. when when checking checkbox first and then typing input box and when first typing input box and then checked:
Register the change event for checkbox:
// Whenever user changes any checkbox
$(".summary").change(function() {
// Trigger the "change" event in sibling input element
$(this).parent().find(".Comment").trigger("change");
});

You have missed the jQuery function --> $
$('#summary').is(':checked')
('#summary') is a string wrapped in Parentheses. $ is an alias for the jQuery function, so $('#summary') is calling jquery with the selector as a parameter.

My experience is that attr() always works.
var chk_summary = false;
var summary = $("#summary").attr('checked');
if ( summary === 'checked') {
chk_summary = true;
}
and then use value chk_summary

Change all the occurrences of
eventData
To
event
because event object has a property named target.
And you should have to know change event fires when you leave your target element. So, if checkbox is checked first then put some text in the input text and apply a blur on it, the it will produce true.

Use like this
var summary = $('#summary').prop('checked');
The prop() method gets the property value
For more details, please visit below link.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6170016/2240375

Getting input hidden value with JQuery

I have a javascript snippet in which I'd like to retrieve the value of a hidden input located in the first column of selected row :
var global_id = $(this).find("td:first").html();
console.log("value=" + global_id);
I get as result :
value =<input id="id" name="id" type="hidden" value="2">
When I try
var global_id = $(this).find("td:first").val();
console.log("value=" + global_id);
I get as result :
value =
So, I need to know :
Why in the second way, the variable is empty
How can I resolve my code to retrieve the first input hidden value?

You need to reference the actual input element, not the containing element. This will find the input element if it is hidden using type="hidden", using css or using jQuery's hide()
var global_id = $("td:first input:hidden:first", this).val();
console.log("value=" + global_id);

How to assign value of textbox to another textbox in html?

I want to assign value of text box in another text box's value present in the immediate next line. How to do that using html and javascript?.
Eg:
input type = "text" name = "test" value = "pass">
input type = "hidden" name = "hiddentest" value = "(here i have to get the value of previous textbox)"/>
Please help me..

Assuming the two textboxes have IDs of "textbox1" and "textbox2", respectively:
var tb1 = document.getElementById('textbox1');
var tb2 = document.getElementById('textbox2');
tb1.value=tb2.value;

First, put a function into your page that will handle it:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function setHiddenValue()
{
document.getElementById('txtHidden').value = document.getElementById('txtVisible').value;
}
</script>
Next, hookup the event on the visible textbox to call the function whenever the text changes:
<input type="text" onChange="javascript:setHiddenValue();"></input>

document.getElementById('hiddentest').value = document.getElementById('test').value ;