why is this javascript not working - javascript

I'm trying to build a function for adding bread crumbs to my site's navigation. However, right now I have two problems. 1) For some reason the crumb array only holds 2 crumbs at a time, and 2), even though the html elements are stored in the crumbs array, only the new crumb's HTML is rendered. The other crumb renders as:
[object HTMLLIElement]
// script
function add_crumb(name) {
// get current bread crumbs
var crumbs = $('#breadcrumbs ul li').toArray();
// no current bread crumbs, so we don't need an arrow image
if (crumbs.length == 0) {
var new_crumb = "<li class='crumb' style='display:inline'> " + name + " </li>";
} else {
var new_crumb = "<li class='crumb' style='display:inline'><img class='bc_arrow' src='images/icons/breadcrumb_arrow.png' width='19' height='18'> " + name + "</li>";
}
// add new bread crumb to array
crumbs.push(new_crumb);
// render
$('#breadcrumbs').html('<ul>' + crumbs.join('') + '</ul>');
}
Anyways, I've side stepped the second problem by creating a new blank array and calling .innerHTML on each element (even though I don't understand why I have to do this since jQuery's site says the elements are stored like so:
[<li id="foo">, <li id="bar">]
But if someone could please help me figure out why it's only storing two bread crumbs at a time, I would really, really appreciate it.
Thanks

HTML Element Objects are not strings, you cannot simply concat them to a string using .join. Try appending them.
$('#breadcrumbs').html('<ul />').find("ul").append(crumbs);

$('#breadcrumbs ul li').toArray(); gives you an array of HTMLLIElements.
You should take a different approach altogether. No need for any arrays:
if($('#breadcrumbs ul li').length){
$('#breadcrumbs ul').append(
"<li class='crumb' style='display:inline'>"
+ name +
"</li>");
}else{
$('#breadcrumbs ul').append(
"<li class='crumb' style='display:inline'>"
+ "<img class='bc_arrow' src='images/icons/breadcrumb_arrow.png' width='19' height='18'>" +
+ name +
"</li>");
}

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Converting String to HTML - string to " a href" element

Hello I am having some trouble getting some HTML links to add to my HTML page. I have tried searching around but nothing has helped thus far.
My page will initially load a snippet:
<div style="display: inline-block; color: rgb(0, 255, 144)">Roster: </div>
<span id="teamRoster"></span>
<br />
Which appears like Roster: in the View
Right now my snippet has been modified to add names:
var rosterListings = "";
for (var i = 0; i < teamRoster.length; i++) {
rosterListings = rosterListings + teamRoster[i] + ", ";
}
$("#teamRoster").text(rosterListings);
Which will update my View to Roster: John, Frank, Susan, ect..
However, I am trying to now add <a href> tag's around each person and turn them all into actual links. My attempt looks like this
var rosterListings = "";
for (var i = 0; i < teamRoster.length; i++) {
rosterListings = rosterListings + " <a href='" + idList[i] + "'>" + teamRoster[i] + "</a>,";
}
$("#teamRoster").text(rosterListings);
which displays as
Roster: <a href='#'>John</a>, <a href='#'>Frank</a>, ect..
I understand why this occurring since I am setting actual text/strings, but is there a way to convert this string into HTML elements? I have tried a few $.parseHTML code snippets that I found from Googling but I must be implementing them all wrong.. :(
Any help appreciated, Thank you!
Well, solution is quite obvious
Just replace
$("#teamRoster").text(rosterListings);
With:
$("#teamRoster").html(rosterListings);
Because if you use it as a text then it will treat it as the text and if you write html then it will treat it as a html
The problem is that you're using .text(), which will insert only text into the span, as seen here.
You need to use .html() if you want what is inserted to actually render as HTML.
So, try this:
$("#teamRoster").html(rosterListings);
Demo
Also note that the way you've set up your for loop causes an extra comma to be placed at the end of the list; I've fixed that here by checking whether it's the last element:
if (i !== teamRoster.length - 1) {
rosterListings = rosterListings + " <a href='" + idList[i] + "'>" + teamRoster[i] + "</a>,";
} else {
rosterListings = rosterListings + " and <a href='" + idList[i] + "'>" + teamRoster[i] + "</a>.";
}
As Just code points out, you want to use the html method, not the text method. html() is jQuery's wrapper for innerHTML, which injects the string as html.
Here is a jsFiddle showing the difference:
http://jsfiddle.net/89nxt/
$("#teamRosterHtml").html("<a href='#'>John</a> <a href='#'>Frank</a>");
$("#teamRosterText").text("<a href='#'>John</a> <a href='#'>Frank</a>");

How to get the total of the list ordered, with Javascript

I'm making a code of a online delivery webpage, and I having a hard time trying to figure out how to output the total of the list ordered by the user.
function ListOrder(){
document.getElementById('order').innerHTML += "<div id=\"YourOrders\">" + + document.getElementById('FoodName').value + document.getElementById('quantity').value + document.getElementById('Totality').value + "</div><br>";}
Edited: I want to know how I can get the sum of the total price. So, I placed a parseInt between the document.getElementById('Totality').value . It looks like this now,
function ListOrder(){
document.getElementById('order').innerHTML += "<div id=\"YourOrders\">" + + document.getElementById('FoodName').value + document.getElementById('quantity').value + parseInt(document.getElementById('Totality').value) + "</div><br>";}
Can someone help me make a function or something for that? Javascript only, please. I'm still kinda new at it.
function ListOrder(){
document.getElementById('order').innerHTML +=
"<div id=\"YourOrders\">" +
parseInt(document.getElementById('FoodName').value) +
parseInt(document.getElementById('quantity').value) +
parseInt(document.getElementById('Totality').value) +
"</div><br>";
}
the kernel of your code should look like the following (double + operator deleted, reformatted):
function ListOrder(){
document.getElementById('order').innerHTML +=
"<div id=\"YourOrders\">" + (
document.getElementById('FoodName').value
+ document.getElementById('quantity').value
+ document.getElementById('Totality').value
)
+ "</div><br>"
;
}
You've phrased your question in a way that suggests you wish to output an order list assembled from the content of all (html) elements with certain ids.
this won't work reliably:
Ids should be document unique.
The Js functions you use do not iterate over lists.
instead, proceed along the following lines (which assume that you import jquery, a cross-browser dom-handling and ajax library (which you should use anyway :)):
function ListOrder(){
var e_orders = $("<div id=\"YourOrders\">");
$("#order").append(e_orders);
$(".FoodName").each ( function ( idx_fn, e_fn ) {
$(e_orders).append(
$("<div/>").append(
$(e_fn).val()
+ $(e_fn).nextAll('.quantity').val()
+ $(e_fn).nextAll('.Totality').val()
);
);
$(e_orders).append("<br>");
});
return e_orders;
}
The code template assumes that the source data are elements with value attributes being marked with css classes quantity, Totality and 'FoodName``, that these elements are siblings and unique within a container element for each item incl. quantity information. It should be flexible enough to be tailored to your actual needs and html structure.

Javascript: Subtracting items from shopping cart result in negative value

I've got this shopping cart script that I'm trying to revise. Trouble is, whenever I try to delete more than one item from the cart, I get a negative value. The cart never goes back to zero when all items are deleted. I can add items fine.
Here is the fiddle.
Below is a code snippet of this feature. The full code is in the fiddle as it is easier to explain by showing you a demo of the problem I am having.
function addToCart(id, container_id, corTitle, corPrice, credit_hrs) {
var amount = parseFloat(corPrice);
var hours = parseFloat(credit_hrs);
var remove = "<button type=\"button\" class=\"remove\"></button>";
var selected_product = "<div class=\"item \">"
+ "<div class=\"title\">"
+"<div class=\"remove\"><button type=\"button\" title=\"remove from cart\" class=\"remove-from-cart\" alt=\"Remove Course\" ></button></div>"
+ corTitle
+ " for $" + corPrice
+ "</div>"
+ "<input name=\"containerId\" value=\"" + container_id
+ "\" type=\"hidden\">" + "</div>";
$(selected_product).insertBefore("#subtotals");
register("add", amount, hours);
$(".remove-from-cart").click(function() {
$(this).parents(".item").slideUp("slow");
console.log(this);
register("subtract", amount, hours);
$(toId(id)).removeAttr("disabled").fadeTo("slow", 1);
$(this).parents(".item").remove();
});
}
The problem appears to be that the click handler attached to the remove button is invoked multiple times when a remove button is clicked. The duplicate invocation of register("subtract", amount, hours) causes the total to go negative. How can I fix this?
The problem is that you re-run $(".remove-from-cart").click(...) each time you add an item to the cart, so all existing remove buttons get an extra handler.
Use jQuery to parse to HTML into a jQuery-wrapped DOM structure, and then use that as a context for your .remove-from-cart selector (as demonstrated in this working fiddle). That way, the .remove-from-cart selector will only apply to your newly-added item.
var selected_product = "<div class=\"item \">" + ...;
// jQuery-wrapped DOM structure
var $prod = $(selected_product)
$prod.insertBefore("#subtotals");
register("add", amount, hours);
// use $prod as jQuery context argument,
// so `.remove-from-cart` only looks in this DOM tree
$(".remove-from-cart", $prod).click(function() {
...
});

JQuery click event firing multiple times

I know that there's lot here on already on multiple click events being fired off, I think I've read them all but still can't see what's going wrong here.
Hope fully I'm missing something obvious that someone else can pick up easily...
Some background
My code works inside an Enterprise Social Networking platform and creates a BI dashboard for content analysis (about a 1000 lines of the stuff, mostly domain specific, so too much to post in it's entirety).
The part that is causing me grief is the function that builds the dashboard visualisation itself.
Here goes...
function makePage(){
$("#policyCount").text(policyCount);
var docTypes=getGlobalDocTypes(polOwners); //returns a constrained vocab array
var statusTypes=getGlobalStatusTypes(polOwners); //returns a constrained vocab array
$.each(polOwners,function(){ // polOwners is a global array that contains the BI data to be visualised
html=""
var ownerName = this.name.split(":")[1]; // name is a str in format "Owner:HR"
html += "<div id='" + ownerName + "' class='ownerData'>";
html += "<div class='ownerHeading'>" + ownerName + "</div>";
html += this.policies.length + " Policy documents maintained<br />"; // policies is an array of docs managed by owner
divIDReview = "dboard_" + ownerName + "reviewchart";
html += "<div id='" + divIDReview + "' class='dboardelement'></div>";
divIDType = "dboard_" + ownerName + "typechart";
html += "<div id='" + divIDType + "' class='dboardelement'></div>";
divIDStatus = "dboard_" + ownerName + "statuschart";
html += "<div id='" + divIDStatus + "' class='dboardelement'></div>";
html += "<div id='" + ownerName + "ToggleTable' class='toggletable' owner='" + ownerName + "'>";
html += "Click to display all " + ownerName + " documents<br /></div>";
html += "<div id='" + ownerName + "polTable' class='poltable'>";
html += getPolTable(this.policies); // Returns an HTML table of doc metadata
html += "</div>";
html += "</div>";
  $("#owners").append(html); // When this function is called #owners is an empty div
$(".toggletable").mouseover(function(){
$(this).css({'cursor':'pointer','text-decoration':'underline'});
});
$(".toggletable").mouseout(function(){
$(this).css( {'cursor':'default','text-decoration':'none'});
});
$(".toggletable").each(function(i, elem){
$(elem).click(function(){
if ($(this).next(".poltable").css("display")=="none"){
// Currently hidden - so show
if (debug){console.log($(this).attr("id") + " was clicked")}
$(this).html("Click to hide " + $(this).attr('owner') + " documents<br/>");
$(this).next(".poltable").css("display","block");
} else {
if (debug){console.log($(this).attr("id") + " was clicked")}
$(this).html("Click to display all " + $(this).attr('owner') + " documents<br />");
$(this).next(".poltable").css("display","none");
}
});
});
// the next section calls functions that use the Google vis api to draw pie charts
drawPie(300,200, "Review Status", "Status", "Policies", getReviewStatus(this.policies), ["green","orange","red"], divIDReview);
drawPie(300,200, "Document Types", "Type", "Docs", getDocTypes(this.policies, docTypes), [], divIDType);
drawPie(300,200, "Document Status", "Status", "Docs", getStatusTypes(this.policies, statusTypes), [], divIDStatus);
});
}
Hopefully that's enough to illustrate the problem.
You'll see that the code builds a dashboard display for each polOwner consisting of three pie charts and an option to hide or display a table of underlying data.
I started by applying the click event to the .toggletable class. When that fired multiple times I used the method described on another answer here with the .each to attach a unique event to each instance of the class.
So, what happens?
There are currently 9 polOwners and at first glance, the click event only seems to be toggling the display state of every other table. The console log however shows that this is because it is firing 9 times for the first instance, 8 for the second, 7 for the third etc. with the odd numbers leaving the table in the alternate state (when this works the display will change to a .toggle animation).
For info, While I'm a text editor person, I do have a copy of MS Expression Web 4 which is a useful tool for error checking HTML. I've pasted in a copy of the entire generated markup (nearly 4000 lines) and can't see any bad nesting or structure errors.
Any ideas folks?
You've got some nested loops:
// jQuery each on polOwners
$.each(polOwners,function(){
// ... code that appends .toggletable class
// jQuery each on .toggletable class
$(".toggletable").each(function(i, elem){
// code that runs on the toggletable element
});
});
For each polOwner you are adding a div with the toggletable class. Then inside there you are looping through each div with a toggletable class and adding a click event.
This adds 1 click for the first polOwner, 2 for the second, three for the third and so on.
Move the toggletable each outside of the polOwner each and you should be good

jQuery: trying hook a function to the onclick when page loads

I have seen a similar question, HERE and have tried that, but I can't seem to get it working.
Here is my code for dynamically generating table rows.
for (var contribution = 0; contribution < candidate.contributions.length - 1; contribution++) {
var id = candidate.contributions[contribution].donor_id;
var uid = candidate.contributions[contribution].user_id;
$("#history-table").append(
"<tr onclick='" + parent.viewEngine.pageChange('public-profile', 1, id, uid) + ";>" +
"<td class='img-cell'>" +
"<img class='profile-avatar-small' src='/uploads/profile-pictures/" +
candidate.contributions[contribution].image + "' alt='' /></td><td class=''>" +
"<h2>" + candidate.contributions[contribution].firstname +
" " + candidate.contributions[contribution].lastname + "</h2></a><br/><br/>" +
"<span class='contribution-description'>" + candidate.contributions[contribution].contribution_description + "</span></td>" +
"<td><h3>$" + formatCurrency(candidate.contributions[contribution].contribution_amount) + "</h3></td></tr>");
}
This still executes the click event as soon as the page loads, which is not the desired behavior. I need to be able to click the tr to execute the click event.
Pass the whole thing as a string:
"<tr onclick='parent.viewEngine.pageChange(\'public-profile\', 1, " + id + ", " + uid + ");>" // + (...)
But, as you are using jQuery, you should be attaching the click handler with .on().
(I really don't recommend using inline event handlers like that, especially when you're already using jQuery, but anyway...)
The problem is that you need the name of the function to end up in the string that you are passing to .append(), but you are simply calling the function and appending the result. Try this:
...
"<tr onclick='parent.viewEngine.pageChange(\"public-profile\", 1, " + id + "," + uid + ");'>" +
...
This creates a string that includes the name of the function and the first couple of parameters, but then adds the values of the id and uid variables from the current loop iteration such that the full string includes the appropriately formatted function name and parameters.
Note that the quotation marks around "public-profile" were single quotes but that wouldn't work because you've also used single quotes for your onclick='...', so you should use double-quotes but they need to be escaped because the entire string is in double-quotes.
I'm wondering if you might be better simplifying things a bit.
If your rows are being dynamically added, then try putting some kind of meta-data in the <tr> tag, e.g. something like this:
<tr id="id" name="uid">
Then try the following with your jQuery (v.1.7 required):
$('#history-table tr').on('click', function(){
parent.viewEngine.pageChange('public-profile', 1, this.id, this.name);
});
This will likely require modification depending on how your page rendering works but it's a lot cleaner and easier to read having been removed from your main table markup.
Well that's because you're executing the function, not concatenating it. Try:
onclick='parent.viewEngine.pageChange("public-profile", 1, id, uid);'
Take this ->
$("#contribution-" + uid).click(function(){
parent.viewEngine.pageChange('public-profile',1, id, uid);
});
And do two things:
1) Move it outside of the 'for' statement
As soon as the for statement is executed, the click function will be executed as well. The click function is not being supplied as a callback function in this for statement.
2) Change it to ->
$("tr[id^='contribution-'").on('click', function(){
var idString = $(this).attr("id").split("-"); //split the ID string on every hyphen
var uid = idString[1]; //our UID sits on the otherside of the hyphen, so we use [1] to selec it
//our UID will now be what we need. we also apply our click function to every anchor element that has an id beginning with 'contribution-'. should do the trick.
parent.viewEngine.pageChange('public-profile',1, id, uid);
});
This is my solution.

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