jsPlumb and dynamically added containers - javascript

Since there's no jsPlumb forum anywhere I hope someone here can help me.
I want to generate this graph from some data I get from a JSON-API, what this API gives me are "devices" with a name and multiple sinks/sources, which I want to display as a list with the device-name in the first row.
So I thought I'd use some JQuery to generate these divs and add the jsPlumb-endpoints I need to the device. Unfortunately I can only get endpoints on existing divs to work but not on my dynamically generated ones. Firebug shows me the error "myOffset is null" in the addEndpoint function and I don't really see anything that's wrong.
I made a fiddle of it here: http://jsfiddle.net/2mcD2/4/

Id of an element is invalid, : is not allowed in ids.
jQuery("#source:foo") // will not work
jQuery("*[id='source:foo']") // will work, but you'll need to modify `jsPlumb` code in order to make it work this way
Solution: do not use : in ids. _ and - are ok.

there's a jsPlumb group here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/jsplumb

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Tooltips not working

OK, I am baffled on how to get Bootstrap 3 Tooltip working.
Bootstrap Tooltip "instructions"
http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#tooltips
Says to trigger using:
$('#example').tooltip(options)
then HTML to write
Hover over me
No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get it working. There is no ID named example in their example, and adding said ID does not work (I wrap the script in a script tag and have added it before and after the anchor).
But, after looking around on Google, I found the following code, which when added makes the Tooltip work as it should.
$(function () { $("[data-toggle='tooltip']").tooltip(); });
So, my question is, How the hell do I get it working with the provided Bootstrap code! What am I missing? They really need to work on their instructions. This should not take this long to figure out when it should be simple!
I was able to recreate this in a fiddle. Check the console on your browser if you are getting javascript errors. Looking at the code you have provided though it hits me that you might be mixing two things together. The options need to be defined in your javascript code and not in HTML, like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
var option = {
title: "example",
placement: "bottom"
};
$("#example").tooltip(option);
});
Well, this is about how to read the document of bootstrap.
$('#example').tooltip(options)
just presents how to use the jquery method, and it is not right for the following html:
Hover over me
The method must be called in order to active the tooltips plugin. So, in order to make the html working with the plugin, you need to do two steps:
add an id into the html, say,
Hover over me
call the jquery method,
$('#tips').tooltip(options)

Removing data attributes from HTML using jQuery

Can't seem to get this one to work...
I have a page that hides certain links. When the DOM is loaded, I'm using jQuery to toggle some of those elements. This is driven by using a data attribute like so:
<div class="d_btn" data-usr='48'>
<div class="hidden_button">
Then, I have the code:
$.each($(".d_btn"), function() {
var btn = $(this).data('usr');
if ( btn == '48' ){
$(this).children('.hidden_button').toggle();
}
The above all works as planned. The problem is that I am trying to remove the data-usr from the class .d_btn once the if statement is evaluated. I've tried the following and nothing works (i.e., after the page is loaded, the source still shows the data-usr attribute:
$(this).removeAttr("data-usr");
$(this).removeData("usr");
I've been working on this for a couple of hours now and...nothing! Help is greatly appreciated!
UPDATE
I've tried the great suggestions of setting the data attribute to an empty string but I'm still not getting the desired result.
To explain a little further, The reason I'm trying to remove the attribute is so when an ajax response adds another item to the page, the previously added items would already have the button either shown or hidden. Upon AJAX response, I'm calling the same function once the DOM is loaded.
Currently, when something is added via AJAX, it toggles all the buttons (showing the ones that were hidden and vice versa.) Ugh...
I'm also fully willing to try alternatives to my approach. Thanks!
UPDATE
Well, the light bulb just flashed and I am able to do what I want to do by just using .show() instead of .toggle()
Anyway, I'd still like to find an answer to this question because the page will be potentially checking hundreds of items whenever something is added - this seems horribly inefficient (even for a computer, hahaha.)
Why don't you set the value to a random value or empty variable instead if removeAttr does not work..
$(this).attr("data-usr" , '');
$(this).prop("data-usr" , '');
Changing the DOM doesn't affect the source. It affects the DOM, which you can view with the Inspector/Developer Tools. Right click => View Source will give you the original source of the page, not the actual current source as modified by JavaScript.
Set it to a blank string:
$(this).attr("data-usr", "");
I second what Kolink said: check the DOM, not the source. (Chrome: Ctrl + Shift + i).
As others have stated. Checking the source will only show the original unedited source for the webpage. What you need to do is check the DOM using developer tools.
I've just checked everything in Chrome's inspector on jsfiddle here and the attribute is definitely being removed as well as the data.

Unable to fire Javascript Event using Watir and how to find element which does not have any attribute

I am new to watir and ruby. I have two questions for which I am unable to get the solution. I have googled and have still not got working solution. Any assistance will be of great help.
Question 1 : How to fire Javascript event.
The html is as mentioned below.
img onclick="javascript:previousScreen(1);" alt="Back" src="/WSWeb/images/someimage.gif"/
I have tried most of the solutions likes, fireevent etc. which was on Google. Please write me a piece of code which will work for the mentioned scenario.
Question 2 : How to click or validate if the element exists for html mentioned below.
Scenario 1 : This is the html text
input onclick="history.go(-1)" type="button" value="Back"/
Scenario 2 : <center> under this-> Text - Login Id. This is all what is present. This is a cell in a table which is in a frame. Please write me a code for both the scenarios.
Well, if you have two questions, post two questions. :)
If the page is public, post a link to it, that is the best way for us to help.
Regarding javascript events, see How to find out which JavaScript events fired?
You can click the button like this:
browser.button(:value => "Back").click
For the center element, you will have to provide more HTML. I am not sure what you need to do with it.
First of all, as to selecting elements that do not have an attribute, see the answers (all three) to this SO question asked a little while back: Accessing an element with no attributes in Watir
With regard to your specific examples/question here: If you refer to the watir wiki's listing of methods supported for selecting elements you will see that an image element (img tag) can be selected by the src. So for your first thing, just do this
browser.image(:src => '/WSWeb/images/someimage.gif').click
if for some reason the click method does not work, then you could try firing the onclick event directly
browser.image(:src => "/WSWeb/images/someimage.gif").fire_event('onclick')
For the second part, you will also notice that value can be used to select 'button' elements which includes input tags of type=button. thus to see if the button is there
browser.button(:value => 'Back').exists? #(will return true or false)
For the second scenario there, Watir does not currently support selecting by most formatting tags like center, so you would need to look at what element contained that text. You say it is a table cell (td) inside a frame (which I don't know how to identify since you provide no html) and if that is the case and I am understanding it right then
browser.frame(:how => 'what').cell(:text => 'Login Id').exists?
should work (presuming the text is actually 'Login Id' and not 'Login ID')

How to use onmouseover?

I have a list being displayed on a JSP. On mouse hover on any of the value i need to show a description corresponding that value. Need to show description not as an alert and also cannot make the values as hyperlink.
eg.
suppose the value is ABC so on mouse hover should show AppleBoyCat.
need to use onmouseover. let me know how to do it..
What do you want to do? If you just want to show a tooltip, you can set the title attribute of any element and it will be displayed as a tooltip.
Also, the abbr tag can be used as tooltips too:
<abbr title="test">stuff</abbr>
You can go about it in two ways:
1 - a hidden dom object (a div for instance) which reveals itself when you roll over whatever
or
2 - you can rewrite the html of the particular element you're mousing over.
You can load this data in when you load everything else (either as Javascript objects, or as markup, though that's much bulkier) or you can asynchronously load the description data from a service when you mouse over (though you'll have more lag).
jQuery is a quick and dirty way to achieve this (more quick than dirty), but straight JS or pretty much any other JS library will do as well.
Perhaps not the cleanest solution but something like this:
<a class='hover' rel='tooltip'>Link</a>
//Some hidden div, putting css inline just for example
<div id='tooltip' style='display:none;'>Content</div>
$(function() {
$('.hover').mouseover(function() {
var tooltip = $(this).attr('rel');
$('#' + tooltip).fadeIn();
});
});
And offcourse add a callback hiding it again. It just takes the value from rel of the link and use as an id for the div to show.
This is a quick and dirty solution, can be made alot smoother if you just work with it a little;)
There also alot of plugins out there allowing the same functionality in a cleaner fashion.
*Edit: Just noticed you added a comment on another post that you can't use jQuery.. shouldn't tag a post with something you're not intending to use.
As TJHeuvel already said, you can simply use the title attribute.
Best approach is to build the list with both the value and title attribute from within JSP, if not possible for some reason, you can build client side array of each value and its corresponding description then using JavaScript dynamically assign the title on mouseover.
Show us some more code to get more/better help.
For simple tooltips, the title attribute is most effective, as pointed out by TJHeuvel
If you need more advanced tooltips with HTML and CSS formatting, I'd suggest you use an external library.
One that works nicely without jQuery ist wz_tooltip download here, documentation here
When included correctly, you can add tooltips by calling the functions Tip() and UnTip() as follows:
Homepage

Problem with jQuery - error when trying to find 2 tags

I have the following DOM structure:
/*:DOC += <div id='testDiv' class='testDivClass'><div id='innerTestDiv'></div></div><span id='testSpan' class='testSpanClass'><span id='innerTestSpan'></span></span>
Now I tried to run jQuery select against them as follow. The first one returned alright, but the second one failed:
// works
var result = $('#testDiv')[0];
alert(result.id);
// failed: id is null or not an object
var result2 = $('#testSpan')[0];
alert(result2.id);
I tried selecting id instead of class and got the same results.
My question is: how can I get the second select to work? Is there some sort of invisible iterator/pointer in jQuery which I need to reset to the beginning of the DOM before the second select?
Thanks.
EDIT: Ok this is the official "does not work" version. testDiv matched, but testSpan did not, hence I got an error saying id is null or not an object error in the second alert.
UPDATE: I did a test by swapping testDiv and testSpan in the html. Now BOTH select failed.
UPDATE2: I have changed the html back to what it used to look like. I'm using JsTestDriver to write up the test, but it is actually not calling anything at the moment. The actual html looks messier than this (more nested tags). I'm trying to get this simplified version to work first. It appears that jQuery was able to get into the first select, whether it'll be span or div, but couldnt get out of it to do the second select. I've replaced jQuery.js and jsTestDriver.jar to no avail.
Thanks.
The .className selector matches by class, not ID.
Therefore, $(span.testSpan) won't match any elements.
You need to change it to $('span.testSpanClass') ot $(span#testSpan') (using the #id selector, which matches ID).
For more information, read the documentation.
I don't know why, but for me your code worked well.
I added $(document).ready(function() { before that code, and when I opened the test page, the alert box showed up perfectly, both of them! I don't know when do you want this alert box showed, but if it is when visitor open the page, just add that code. Otherwise, add
function objectid() {
var result = $('#testDiv')[0];
alert(result.id);
var result2 = $('#testSpan')[0];
alert(result2.id);
}
That code worked well for me, too.
PS: Sorry if you don't understand my bad english.
More than likely, there is something else wrong with the HTML you're actually using. Since you're posting only a tiny bit of the html, we can't actually test your problem. Post the entire page, or at least the smallest piece of it that actually has the problem when you run your test.
I tested the jQuery code you reported on JS Bin, and the code worked fine. As the code is very basic, I don't think the problem is caused by the version of jQuery used.
What I ended up doing is wrapping the entire html with a div or span tag. I found that jQuery could not get out of a div/span tag once it gets into one (in my above example), so I just make it to go into a div/span tag once.
Not sure whether this is a patch or ugly fix, but it solved my problem for now.
Thanks for all the help!
Use "#" to select by id, use "." to select by class...

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