I'm building a script dynamically (which is why it ends up in a var) but I've simplified this example. The problem I'm having is that the browser interprets the span tags inside the script as actual spans, rather than as part of the script. I've looked at all kinds of resources on escaping characters and html encoding/decoding, but either those aren't relevant issues or I'm just not getting it.
How can I write the span inside the dynamically-generated script so that the browser interprets it as part of the script and not as a span tag that it should render?
page.html file
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var formScript = ' $(document).on("ready", function () {';
formScript += $().BuildScript();
$("script#dynamic-script").append(formScript + '});');
});
</script>
<script id="dynamic-script"></script>
functions.js file
(function ($) {
$.fn.BuildScript = function () {
var stmtsToAdd = '';
stmtsToAdd += '$("#X").on("change", function () {' +
' if ($(this).val() == "1" && !$("#label-and-control_Y").is(":visible")) {' +
' $("#label-and-control_Y").show("fast");' +
' $("#control_Y").addClass("required");' +
' $("#control_Y").closest("div.control").prev().empty.append("<span class="required-field-indicator">");' +
' }' +
'});';
return stmtsToAdd;
}
})(jQuery);
variations
I have also tried using a variety of special characters, both with and without escaping backslashes (just in case I was misunderstanding something), with always the same result
"\u003cspan class=\\u0022required-field-indicator\\u0022\u003eRequired\u003c\/span\u003e"
"\x3cspan class=\x22required-field-indicator\x22\x3eRequired\x3c/span\x3e"
I also read that jQuery's html() was decoding, which is why I've tried append(), text(), and appendChild().
result
Whenever I add the code below as a widget to my blog, the slider (Welcome...) on it will stop working. The slider should scroll through a few different images. I've read that 'no.conflict' will fix this problem but for the life of me haven't a clue where to put the code.
Recent Videos Widget
<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<style type="text/css">
div.PBTytC {clear:both;padding:5px;font-size:12px;}
div.PBTytC.odd {background-color: #;}
div.PBTytC_thumb {position:relative;float:left;margin-right:8px;line-height:1;}
div.PBTytC_thumb img {width:76px;height:78px;border:0px solid #55A66B;}
div.PBTytC_title {font-weight:none;}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var PBTYoutubeUserName = "XXX";
var PBTYoutubeMAXResults = 3;
var PBTYoutubeAllow = "";
var PBTYoutubeDisallow = "";
var PBTYoutubeWgetIsEmpty = "No entries";
$(document).ready(function() {
$.getJSON("http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=58c841d14337ba4fbf693abd9701dc49&_render=json&max-results="+PBTYoutubeMAXResults+"&allow="+PBTYoutubeAllow+"&disallow="+PBTYoutubeDisallow+"&user="+PBTYoutubeUserName+"&_callback=?", function(response) {
var htm = "";
for(var i=0;i<response.count;i++) {
var item = response.value.items[i];
htm += '<div class="PBTytC';
if(i%2 == 1) htm += ' odd';
htm += '"><div class="PBTytC_thumb"><a target="_blank" href="' + item.link + '"><img title="' + item.title + '" src="' + item.thumb + '"/></a></div>';
htm += '<div class="PBTytC_title"><a target="_blank" href="' + item.link + '">' + item.title + '</a></div>';
htm += '<div class="PBTytC_description">' + item.description + '</div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div>';
}
if(htm == "") htm = PBTYoutubeWgetIsEmpty;
$("#PBTytWdtLoad").html(htm);
});
});
</script>
<div id="PBTytWdtLoad">Loading...</div>
Here is the link to my blog: Link
Thanks for reading and hopefully helping me out.
Including JQuery twice can cause issues. The code fragment above and your blog both have a script tag for query. Try adding it to your blog without including JQuery again.
As for the plugin not working:
Your site includes JQuery; Then it has a lot of scripts that use JQuery; Then it has a script that changes the JQuery operator so that $ isn't use since this will cause conflicts with other scripts using the variable $ in another way. Considering the amount of scripts on your site I'm surprised you don't have more issues.
Anyway after your last script tag you can't use $ in your scripts you have to use jQuery instead. For example:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery.getJSON("http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
If you go through your whole script and change '$' to 'jQuery' then that will help with your script where it is in your page now, with the current page listed at your blog.
Really though, this is just putting a band-aid on a bigger problem. It's worth thinking about what scripts you really need.
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 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>
I have a javascript variable I need to create like this:
var HTMLContent = '<div class="className">HTML Content</div>';
How can I format it in an easier to read format because I'm going to want to create multiple lines of HTML.
e.g.
var HTMLContent = '
<div class="className">
HTML Content
</div>
';
Is something like that possible?
It would also be good if I could import via URL e.g. var HTMLContent = 'http://domain.com/page.html';
var longStr = "You can split\
the string onto multiple lines\
like so";
An example using your HTML would be:
var longStr =
'<div class="className">\
HTML Content\
</div>';
To load external HTML, check out jQuery's load method:
$('#result').load('ajax/test.html');
In your page markup, add a hidden template div, like:
<div id="contentTemplate" style="display: none;">
<div class="className">
HTML_CONTENT
</div>
</div>
...then in your JavaScript, you can do something like:
var newContent = 'The content for the new element';
var templateContent = document.getElementById("contentTemplate").innerHTML;
var htmlContent = templateContent.replace("HTML_CONTENT", newContent);
You could also use an AJAX request to pull the value of newContent from a URL to get your dynamic content loading working. If you plan on doing this, however, then I suggest you investigate using a framework like jQuery, which can greatly simplify this process.
You can also use backticks
function myFunc() {
var HTMLContent =`
<div class="className">
<div>HTML Content</div>
</div>
`;
document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = (HTMLContent);
}
myFunc()
<div id="demo"></div>
var HTMLContent =
'<div class="className">' +
'HTML Content' +
'</div>';
You can do something like:
var HTMLContent = '<div class="ClassName">' +
'HTML Content' +
'</div>';
You can use escape characters:
var HTMLContent = '<div class="className">\n\tHTML Content\n</div>';
I may have misinterpretted the question, you want the javascript to be more readable, not the html stored in the variable?
var HTMLContent = "" +
"<div class=\"className\">\n" +
" HTML Content\n" +
"</div>\n" +
"";
This way, the script that writes it it pretty and the code it writes will be pretty too if someone were to view-source.