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Generate Bootstrap tooltip on-the-fly

I have a page with a text and some words in the text can change dynamically. These words have an element and should have a tooltip. When the user hovers the word (or I guess on a touch device clicks it), a tooltip should be generated using generateSpecialMarkupElement($(element).text()). Once the HTML has been rendered to the DOM another JavaScript function has to be called replaceMarkupHTML().
I don't have control over these functions unfortunately.
Now I'm wondering if there is a simple way in bootstrap get this done. For instance a before event to run the first function and an after event to call the second one.
Here is a simple example text and simplified versions of the functions:
http://jsfiddle.net/8aqz5auk/1/
So is there a bootstrap-way of hooking/intercepting this kind of thing? Or is there maybe another simple way it could be done?
Edit: I just had an idea. When bootstrap shows a tooltip, it seems to inject an element into the DOM. The interesting part is the container with the class 'tooltip-inner'. So I tried to listen on the body for new elements matching '.tooltip-inner' to be injected and whenever that happens I try to manipulate it:
$('body').on('DOMNodeInserted', '.tooltip-inner', function () {
var el = $(this)
el.html("") // empty the tooltip element
el.append(generateSpecialMarkupElement(el.text())) // insert the generated markup element
replaceMarkupHTML() // replace the markup element with normal html
});
Unfortunately it doesn't work. It just throws a a million errors and the site freezes when I try it.
Edit 2:
Thanks to Chris Barr, I got a little bit closer: http://jsfiddle.net/8aqz5auk/2/
But the tooltip doesn't always show up and the position of the tooltip seems to be kind of wrong (shows up on top of the word, rather then next to/above/below/...).

You might want to look into the tooltip events listed in the docs: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/javascript/#tooltips-events
$('.elements-with-tooltips').on('show.bs.tooltip', function () {
// do something…
})
You can run a function: before being shown, after being shown, before hiding, after hiding, and when the element is inserted into the DOM.

(JavaScript ?) Display div with different content on choice?

I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to display a div when I click on a single link (which will change the way css style) with variable content (eg a sub-div with service1, service2, service3 ). This div will be displayed also propose several offers that will only display the div payment when one of these offers will be selected.
It's maybe hard to explain (i'm not english so sorry for really noob level), so maybe with this image you will "understand" a little bit more:
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2015/38/1442422045-fonctionnement.jpg
I confess to being a bit lost with JavaScript for this kind of thing. I know it's probably achievable, but how? :-(
Thank you for your help folks!

If you want to go the way with altering CSS with javascript, assuming you are not creating the variable content on the fly, have the divs css for display set to none.
#divID {
display = none;
}
Then set an event listener on your link to change the display style to block.
document.getElementById("linkID").addEventListener("click", function() {
document.getElementById("divID").style.display = "block";
}

Ok so I created a crude representation of what you asked without much effects. But the fiddle I created completely functions as you intended. If you click buttons on div 1 the content of div 2 gets updated. If you click anything on div2 the information is displayed in div3. Here is the example: Working Example
window.function1 = function(){
var edits = document.getElementById('2');
edits.style.background="aliceblue";
}
//SAMPLE CODE TO EDIT ANY ELEMENT BY REFERRING BY ID. CALL SUCH FUNCTION ONCLICK
Please check the example to understand it fully.

jquery UI draggable element placeholder

I'm trying to add a draggable image wrap inside a <div> to a content editable <div>. My problem is when I make the <div> draggable; it keeps the place holder. Space is reserved even if I moved the object, and I want to disable that. How can I do it?
This is my code:
var cont = $('<div/>').draggable().attr('contenteditable',false);
var img = $('<img/>').attr('src',file.url).attr('height','100px').attr('width','150px');
img.appendTo(cont);
cont.appendTo('#front');
img.resizable();

Would need some more code (html) to test this, but offhand I'd say try one of the following:
1) try setting the helper property to original: $('').draggable({helper:'original'});
2) try setting your draggable as a sortable with of course helper at original: $('').sortable({helper:'original'});
Also I don't see where you've connected your drag and drop zones, use the {connectWith: '.dropzone'} when you initiate your system.
I'd like to actually try it out before I tell you what to do, but that's what I'd try first.

Firefox add <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

EDIT: This isn't happening because of the ajax call. I changed it to use a value from a TinyMCE component for fun and I get the same thing.
content = tinyMCE.get('cComponent').getContent(); //content at this point is <p>test</p>
valueToDisplay = content;
If I do:
jQuery(selector).html(valueToDisplay);
I get:
<p><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">test</a></p>
Has anyone ever seen this before using Firefox 3.6.10 and jQuery 1.4.2, I am trying to change a link text using the result from a jQuery ajax call.
I get the result expected from the ajax call:
function getValueToDisplay(fieldType){
var returnValue;
jQuery.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "index.cfm",
async:false,
data: "fieldtype="+fieldType,
success:function(response){
returnValue = response;
}
});
return returnValue;
}
If I check the value at this point I get the expected value
console.log(returnValue) //output this --> <p>Passport Photo</p>
However when I use jQuery(selector).html to insert it inside of an existing anchor
I get:
<p><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Passport Photo</a></p>
I have been trying to figure out where that xmlns anchor is added but can't narrow it down to anything specific.
EDIT: I have tried forcing dataType:"html" in the ajax call...no change.

Your selector represents something that is, or is in an a tag.
A much more minimal version of your problem would be:
html:
<a id="test"></a>
js:
$('#test').html('<p>test</p>');
result:
<a id="test"><p><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">test</a></p></a>
Change things around so you aren't putting p tags in an a tag, or do the following:
$('#test').empty().append('<p>test</p>');

I would like to extend the answer, as of why is happening, and provide a workaround.
Doing a GreaseMonkey script i was trying to change the content of an element, perhaps not changing per se but adding more elements as the tag had only an IMG inside.
Original:
<a onclick=something><img src=url></a>
What i tried to do was to insert a DIV element that would wrap the already IMG and another new SPAN second child, so the objetive was to end up with this:
<a onclick=something><div><img src=url><span>text</span></div></a>
Using the innerHTML property it would be like this:
ANode.innerHTML = '<div>' + ANode.innerHTML + '<span>text</span></div>';
but instead i got:
<a onclick=something><div><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><img src=url><span>text</span></a></div></a>
Looking at the answers here did help a bit although there's no real explanation. After a while i noticed something that does not happens with the example in the question, which now i believe is the key to this issue. I was the same as jfrobishow thinking where was it happening, i thought there was something wrong concatenating the ANode.innerHTML.
Answering, at the original question, the part of narrowing it down to where does this happens, notice that the out-of-nowhere <A> was enclosing both the IMG and the new SPAN nodes, so this made me curious, the unwanted <A> was being added just before the DIV element was "built". So from this, the original example, and my following workaround you can notice that this happens when you insert a new BLOCK node inside an Anchor, as both DIV and P (original example) elements are BLOCK elements.
(If you don't know what i mean by BLOCK is from the display property of an element http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_display.asp)
The obvious workaround is to replace the type of node you're inserting, to a non-block element, in my case the problem was the DIV i wanted, but of course it depends on the objective of your script, most of the things are there by design, i put a DIV because i needed it, so i fixed it turning that DIV into another SPAN ( which is an inline element) but i still needed to behave like a block element so put the style, this is what worked for me:
ANode.innerHTML = '<span style="display:block;">' + ANode.innerHTML + '<span>text</span></span>';
So, plainly, this problem is not from scripting (Javascript for me) but from style (CSS) stuff.
BTW, this happened at Firefox 3.6.18, notice this does not happens at Firefox 5.0.

The problem is placing block elements inside an anchor tag.
This is not valid HTML, even though most browsers will parse it fine.
You just need to use a <span></span> element inside the anchor, instead of a <div> or <p>.

This is happening because in your <html> you declared a XML Namespace (xmlns). If the xmlns anchor is not breaking anything, just leave it there.
Also, don't use async:false, make a callback function to be called on success.

EDIT: Actually that just fixed the issue with that particular value... it started happening on other values where it used to be fine.
Somehow this fixed the issue.
Changed
jQuery(selector).html(valueToDisplay)
to
jQuery(selector).html(
function(index, oldHtml)
{
return valueToDisplay;
}
);
According to the doc, if I read it right it should be doing the same thing as I am not using oldHtml in the function. (http://api.jquery.com/html/).
From the doc: "jQuery empties the element before calling the function; use the oldhtml argument to reference the previous content."

Try changing dataType in your ajax call to "text"

Using .append() instead of .html() fixed the issue for me. Never seen this before today. Why is it adding the extra xmlns? I tried changing my dataType to "text" as well, but it didn't work. It was really messing up my CSS styles as well, but using .append() completely resolved the issue. Thanks!
UPDATE: I needed to completely replace the content of my div with the result of an .ajax() query. .append() by itself wasn't sufficient, as it would just add to the content, so I found another workaround:
First clear the div:
$("#myDiv").html("");
Then, append the content using .append():
$("#myDiv").append("My content");
It's not perfect, but it works.

Javascript getElementById - reading works, altering doesn't

So, I have this pretty complex ajax thing going.
It loads new html (including div tags and all) to show up on the page.
I included a 'more' link to load additional data.
This more link links to my javascript function. The 'more' link is located in a div, which I gave a unique id. The next time the load function is called, I use document.getElementById(the id).style.display="none"; to "remove" this div from the look of the page.
I set error traps for this, the div with that id is found without problems, but javascript fails to change my style property.
I tested alert(document.getElementById(the id).innerHTML); and that worked without problems - hence the title of the question.
So, does anyone have any ideas/do I need to offer more information? The main problem is that it doesn't throw any errors anywhere, yet it fails to complete the task I asked...
Here's a bit of code to go with it -
try
{
var myidthing = "morelink" + ContentStart.toString(); //the id is correct
var div = document.getElementById(myidthing);
if (!div)
{
}
else
{
div.style.display="none"; //this doesn't work, but doesn't raise an error
alert(div.innerHTML); //this works without problem
}
}
catch(theerr)
{
alert(theerr);
}
------------------------->EDIT<-------------------------
I'm incredibly sorry if I upset any people.
I'm also angry at myself, for it was a stupid thing in my code. Basically, I had a variable that stored the contents of a parent div. Then I (succesfully) removed the div using the removeChild() method. Then my code pasted the contents of that vaiable (including the div I wanted gone) back into the parent div.
I switched around the order and it works fine now.
Again, excuse me for this.

Throwing out a few ideas of things to look for:
You said the div is generated by javascript. Is it possible the div you are targeting is not the one you think you are? It could be you are targeting another div, which is already hidden, or obstructed... or maybe the innerHTML you are displaying goes with a different element than the one you intend to target. Put an alert or script breakpoint in the if(!div) case, also, and see if it's going down that path.
If the above code is only a stripped-down version of your actual code, check your actual code for typos (for example: style.display = "none;";)
Using the FireBug plugin for FireFox, inspect the target element after the operation completes, and make sure that the display: none appears in the style information. If not, use FireBug's debugger to walk through your javascript, and see if you can figure out why.
Use FireBug to break on all script errors, in case there is another error causing this behavior.

Try empty quotes instead of 'none' and see if that works?:
document.getElementById('element_id').style.display="";
Failing that, don't change the style, just add a class which hides the element.