Adding a jQuery Click handler - javascript

I have following div in a page (I can not modify).
<div id=":0.control">Click me</div>
Now I want to add a jQuery Click handler
$("#:0.control").click(function () {
alert('Clicked');
}
);
Above gives error. Any solution??

Instead of
$("#:0.control")
try
$('div[id="\\:0\\.control"]')
DEMO
or
$("#\\:0\\.control") // better that previous one
DEMO

You can escape special characters in selectors:
$("#\\:0\\.control").click(function () {
alert('Clicked');
});​
Here's a working example.
Note that unless you are using the HTML5 doctype, your ID is invalid. Also note that escaping the special characters is significantly faster than using an attribute selector as in another answer:
The reason for this is that the browser can take advantage of the speed of getElementById, rather than having to rely on querySelector or Sizzle.

This is ugly,but it works:
$(document.getElementById(":0.control"))
In cases, when id is stored in variable, you have to use:
var id = ":0.control";
$(document.getElementById(id))
Otherwise, when you want to use pure jQuery, you need to add additional slashes.
More complex example:
var idArray = [":bla-bla","bla[]","commonId"];
$.each( idArray, function(i,id){
$(document.getElementById(id)) //do some stuff
//Otherwise, when using pure jQuery, we need to add slashes before ':','[',']' characters
});

Related

Im forcing to use getElementsByClassName()[] rather than getElementByClass()

I have 8 divs with id="div1","div2","div3".... and a class=divs. I also have a button with class="div1","div2","div3"......
When I click the button with id="div1", it will first remove all the class="selected" to all div that has a class="divs" then only the div with id="div1" will have the class selected. And so on.....
I want to use document.getElementByClass() for removing class but it don't work in my FIDDLE. :(
Instead, Im forced to use document.getElementsByClassName()[]. But it seems so hard to code since it requires me to put the specific arrays for the classname.
This is exactly I want to achieve FIDDLE
There is no getElementByClass for a reason: unlike id, class is not specified to be unique in a document. Which element would you get? No, you need the ability to get all of them. And if you get an array, that's solved by looping, not by repeating rows for each index:
However, your design is inefficient; and if you're already using jQuery, you can write it very tightly. This would be better:
<button class="divbuttons" data-div="div1">div1</button>
<button class="divbuttons" data-div="div2">div2</button>
...
then you can:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.divbuttons').click(function() {
var div = $(this).data("div");
$('.divs.selected').removeClass('selected');
$('#' + div).addClass('selected');
});
});
This is an easy one. There is no document.getElementByClass
You have document.getElementById or document.getElementByClassName
There's no such thing as getElementByClass() because multiple elements can have the same class. There's getElementById() (elements have unique ids, or at least they're supposed to) and getElementsByClassName(), which returns an array of all elements that match the class specified.
try
$(document).ready(function () {
$("button[class^=div]").click(function () {
$(".divs.selected").removeClass("selected");
$("#" + $(this).attr("class")).addClass("selected");
});
});
DEMO

Selector passing to jQuery function

I have a function in which I want the selector that I am passing to do the enclosed processes. The functions are listed below:
function menuselector (id){
$(id).css('background', 'url(../img/black_denim.png) repeat');
$(id).css('color', '#FFF');
}
function menudeselector (id){
$(id).css('background', 'none');
$(id).css('color', '#CE0101');
}
menuselector('mgi');
mgi is an ID of a div tag
Ids are targeted by using a hash before the id, the same as in CSS.
If you're passing
menuselector('mgi');
You will need to adjust it to make it a valid selector.
$('#' + id).css(...
or you can send the valid selector
menuselector('#mgi');
assuming you have an element with that id (you haven't shown that)
<div id="mgi">
Aside
You shouldn't keep selecting the element. You can either chain
$(id).css('background', 'none').css('color', '#CE0101');
// on new lines for readability if there are a lot of actions
$(id).css('background', 'none')
.css('color', '#CE0101');
or use an object
$(id).css({background: 'none', color: '#CE0101'});
mgi is not a valid selector. You should write:
menusector('#mgi');
or
menuselector('.mgi');
depending on whether you want to select an ID or a class.
You could use popnoodle's solution, if your function should only be applicable to IDs, although making it restrictive like that seems like poor generality.
Just pass '#mgi' if it is an ID:
menuselector('#mgi');

jQuery '#' + data("target") pattern

I've seen this a bunch:
Click me
<div id="content">And something will happen here</div>
With JS like this:
$("#trigger").click(function(){
$("#" + $(this).data("target")).hide();
})
It looks a little weird to me to be doing this string concatenation to create selectors which are then used to get the target element. Is there a better pattern in Javascript (with jQuery available) for setting up handlers on one element which need to know about another target element?
Why you do string concatenation just store the id with #
Click me
$("#trigger").click(function(){
$($(this).data("target")).hide();
})
Similarly you can store any selectors as is in data-target say for ex:- .tab1 etc so that you do not have to perform string concatenation again inside the click or any event.
You can simply use
$('#content').modal('toggle');
Any where in you're code to initiate the modal show and hide,
You can use even "show"/"hide" functionality directly.
I assume you're using Bootstrap and one of the latest versions of jQuery.
Enjoy !
Why not do something like this, a much better approach in my opinion:
// Set the target
$("#trigger").data('target', $('#content'));
// Get the target
$("#trigger").click(function(){
$(this).data("target").hide();
})
If you're setting it from the backend, I would include the hash with the attribute value as others have suggested.
Click me
$("#trigger").click(function(){
var target = $(this).data("target");
$(target).hide();
})
You always have the option to build the selector, looks a bit nicer than concatenating the string inside the selector.
$("#trigger").click(function(){
var selector = "#" + $(this).data("target");
$(selector).hide();
});
A little nicer, not sure if it's what you're looking for.
I would skip the data- completely, thus allowing graceful degradation.
Click me
<div id="content">And something will happen here</div>
with
$("#trigger").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$( $(this).attr("href") ).show();
// note, i'm purposly not using this.href due to a bug in IE that would return the entire href rather than just the hash
})
$(this).attr('data-target', '#myTarget');
this worked for me

Is it possible to grab a link by its href if it doesn't have a class or ID?

I'm using someone else's app and want to change the innerHTML in between any < a>< /a> tag that has a certain href. But these links don't have a class or ID associated with them and I can't edit the code to give them classes or ID's. Is there a way to grab a tag by its href in JavaScript? I wanted to do something similar to this:
var theLink = document.getElementByHref("example.com");
Otherwise, if that is not possible, can I loop through all the links in the page and choose the ones that have the certain href and innerHTML I'm looking for?
You can use a DOM3-attribute-selector (jQuery doc) to get all elements that contain a certain text in their href attribute. It would look like
$('a[href*="example.com"]')
However, that might not be what you actually want - not only urls to that domain might contain this string. You might do something like begins-with:
$('a[href^="http://example.com"]')
but to get an exact and possibly more complex match, you don't get around a custom filter:
$('a[href]').filter( function() {
return this.hostname == "example.com";
// or check other properties of the anchor element
})
Select all elements that have the example.com value in href attribute:
Live Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/NTGQz/
$('a[href*="example.com"]');
You can also try this, just to be more specific and following the OP "ideal" answer:
Live Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ksZhZ/
jQuery.fn.getElementsByHref = function(str){ return $('a[href*="' + str + '"]'); };
$(document).ready(function(){
elems = $(this).getElementsByHref('example.com');
});
jQuery has a lot of selectors. The one you want here is the attribute selector.
$('a[href="example.com"')
You can use an attribute selector:
$('a[href="http://example.com"]')
With JQuery attribute selector, you can do this :
$('a[href="example.com"]')
Try this
$('a[href*="example.com"]');
This will select the link that has example.com in the href attribute..
$('a[href="http:google.com"]')
you can do it with jquery: http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/
ex: linksToGoogle = $('a[href="http://google.com"]');
You can do this without jQuery.
var links = document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="example.com"]');
You can do this natively with querySelectorAll if your users are on IE8+ or any other browser. This method returns an NodeList of matching elements.
document.querySelectorAll('a[href="exact/value.html"]'); // exact match
document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="partial/value.html"]'); // partial match
document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="starts/with"]'); // href starts with
document.querySelectorAll('a[href$=".html"]'); // href ends with

How to use in jQuery :not and hasClass() to get a specific element without a class

I have this line of code:
$('#sitesAccordion .groupOfSites').click(function() {
var lastOpenSite = $(this).siblings().hasClass(':not(.closedTab)');
console.log(lastOpenSite);
});
I get "false" instead of getting one of the other elements (assuming that there is one - and there must be). I guess the problem is with:
.hasClass(':not(.closedTab)');
What is the problem?
My purpose is to create my own accordion (without using jQuery UI)
and I am trying to write it like this:
$('#sitesAccordion .groupOfSites').click(function() {
//Get the last opened tab
var lastOpenSite = $(this).siblings().hasClass(':not(.closedTab)');
//Close last opened tab and add class
lastOpenSite.hide().toggleClass('closedTab');
//Open the current Tab
$(this).children('.accordionContent').toggle('fast');
// remove class from open tab
$(this).toggleClass('closedTab');
});
Is this the best way?
thanks,
Alon
Use the not function instead:
var lastOpenSite = $(this).siblings().not('.closedTab');
hasClass only tests whether an element has a class, not will remove elements from the selected set matching the provided selector.
It's much easier to do like this:
if(!$('#foo').hasClass('bar')) {
...
}
The ! in front of the criteria means false, works in most programming languages.
jQuery's hasClass() method returns a boolean (true/false) and not an element. Also, the parameter to be given to it is a class name and not a selector as such.
For ex: x.hasClass('error');
You can also use jQuery - is(selector) Method:
var lastOpenSite = $(this).siblings().is(':not(.closedTab)');
I don't know if this was true at the time of the original posting, but the siblings method allows selectors, so a reduction of what the OP listed should work.
$(this).siblings(':not(.closedTab)');

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