I'm using the jQueryify bookmarklet on a page so that I can call jQuery functions from the console. But everytime I invoke a jQuery function on a selected object, I get the error:
"TypeError: jQuery("li")[0].children[0].html is not a function
[Break On This Error] jQuery('li')[0].children[0].html();
I have tried this in FireBug as well as Google Chrome's Webkit console.
You are no longer working with jQuery objects when using square braces.
jQuery("li")[0]
This returns you the 1st li as a DOMElement, not a jQuery object.
jQuery("li")[0].children[0]
This returns the 1st li's 1st child as a DOMElement, not a jQuery object.
.html()
This function only works for jQuery objects. For DOMElements, you can use the .innerHTML property.
I suggest instead of dealing with DOMElements, you should continue working with jQuery objects. Try using this instead:
jQuery('li').eq(0).children().eq(0).html()
It looks like you are trying to call a jQuery function, html, on a DOM object children[0]. Try wrapping that in a jQuery object and then calling html
var temp = jQuery("li")[0].children[0];
var html = jQuery(temp).html();
Check the result of jQuery("li")[0].children[0] , it's a regular DOM object NOT a jQuery object. Without seeing your HTML i can't recommend a better selector but a cheap and dirty fix would be
jQuery(jQuery('li')[0].children[0]).html();
This will convert the DOM object result into a jQuery object which has the .html() function.
Accessing the array elements on the jquery object (using []) returns a DOMElement, which obviously doesn't have jquery's methods. You probably want to use eq() instead.
Try following
jQuery(jQuery("li")[0].children[0]).html();
or better one
jQuery("li:eq(0)").children(':eq(0)').html();
or another one
jQuery("li:eq(0)").children().eq(0).html();
even this one will work
jQuery("li").eq(0).children().eq(0).html();
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I have this code in javascript
var greet;
greet = function() {
var textoNombre;
textoNombre = document.getElementById("textoNombre");
return alert(textoNombre.value);
};
what is working on the HTML document. But if I change document.getElementById("textoNombre") by the jQuery version $("#textoNombre") it just dont work. The alert says "undefined".
I have the jQuery script linked on the head of the HTML before to my custom js file.
This is a very basic question but I tried different things and no one work, can you help me please? Thank you in advance.
That's because jQuery objects don't have a value property, the equivelant is $('#someId').val().
To get the underlying DOM object, you can use $('#someId')[0]. This is because jQuery objects are actually like arrays, and their elements are the DOM objects themselves. That means $('#someId')[0].value would work as you'd expect.
jQuery objects are not DOM objects and don't share all their properties.
To get the current value of a form control, you would use the .val() method, not the .value property.
When you want to get the HTML of an entire DOM element (wrapper included), you can do the following (as explained here):
$('#myElementId')[0].outerHTML
But what you can't do is call outerHTML on $(this) inside e.g. a click listener or selector function body scope:
$(this).outerHTML //Doesn't complete in IntelliSense, returns undefined in browser
or
$(this)[0].outerHTML //Correction, this DOES work, but it doesn't complete in IntelliSense
because IntelliSense won't show innerHTML or outerHTML in those circumstances, although with vanilla JavaScript you can do:
document.getElementById($(this).attr('id')).outerHTML
So... what's up with that?
outerHTML is a DOM property; jQuery doesn't expose all DOM properties.
If you have a jQuery object, you can only directly access those properties and methods that jQuery exposes, and vice versa for DOM objects.
In object-oriented terms, jQuery objects don't inherit from DOM objects, they contain them.
Saying $x[0] gets you the DOM object for the first element represented by a jQuery object.
You can use directly this to access outerHTML of the current object instead of indirectly going through $(this) as this represents the DOM object (which has outerHTML property) whereas $(this) represents jQuery object.
this.outerHTML
jQuery selector returns an array-like jQuery object which has no outerHTML property.
However, the jQuery resulting array contains DOM elements.
It means that you can actually access it this way.
$(".someClass")[0].outerHTML // it works for me
Update:
It works for me in every browser.
I can access array-like jQuery object in a click event handler as well.
$(".someClass").click(function()
{
alert($(this)[0].outerHTML); // it works me too
});
Here is my JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/13btf60p/
Update 2:
OK, now I get your question. It should have worked.
Do you really need an IntelliSense to complete such a plain and simple construction?
I will add what I found to be the correct solution to what ended up being a simple flaw in the default Visual Studio settings for future reference.
Since I didn't want to let this go, I searched further and found out that, by default, jQuery IntelliSense is somewhat deplorable out of the box in Visual Studio 2013.
Under
Tools > Options > Text Editor > Javascript > IntelliSense > References
I set
Reference Group: "Implicit (Web)"
and added an existing jQuery file. This solved all issues of my question and IntelliSense now suggests all members and methods correctly, although this should have simply worked out of the box instead of costing everyone a bunch of time.
this.outerHTML is enough.
If you use getElementById maybe you can use:
var table = document.getElementById('blablabla');
can you help me understand why this is not working?
var elementTab1 = $('#tab1 .item-media.modificato');
elementTab1[0].addClass('selezionato');
this through this error
TypeError: undefined is not a function (evaluating 'elementTab1[0].addClass('selezionato')')
Thanks
elementTab1 is already a jQuery object. It contains an array of matched elements in the DOM. Accessing the first index using [0] will return a native element with access to the native JavaScript API (and not jQuery's).
jQuery does provide a nice way to grab items from the array though. It is .eq().
elementTab1.eq(0).addClass('selezionato');
Accessing an element of a JQuery object (via your elementTab1[0]) call returns the DOM element, not a JQuery element.
DOM elements do not have an .addClass method.
The following code should work for you:
$(elementTab1[0]).addClass(".selezionato");
Alternately, just skip JQuery and use the native DOM APIs:
document
.querySelector("#tab1 .item-media.modificato")
.classList
.add(".selezionato");
I'm just starting with JQuery and am working through a tutorial vid. At one point the presenters go for javascript instead of a JQuery selector. Just wondering why the javascript getElementById below works fine when passing an object to a function, but the second one doesn't?
Thanks!
// works
addTask(document.getElementById('taskText'), evt);
// doesn't
addTask($('#taskText'), evt);
getElementById() returns a DOM element reference.
jQuery's selector returns a jQuery object. You can get the element reference from the jQuery object using
$('#taskText').get(0);
See http://api.jquery.com/get/
To add to the other answer, regarding the result, if you want to use jQuery (which is easier to read), you can get the dom node directly like so:
addTask($('#taskText')[0], evt);
$('#taskText') returns a jQuery object reference.
document.getElementById('taskText') returns a DOM element reference.
If your addTask() function doesn't know how to convert them to what it needs, then that would be the issue since one of them will need a conversion.
If you want to get the first DOM element reference from the jQuery object, you can do so with this:
$('#taskText').get(0)
So these two should be identical:
$('#taskText').get(0)
document.getElementById('taskText')
Both are not exactly same
document.getElementById('taskText'); //returns a HTML DOM Object
var contents = $('#taskText'); //returns a jQuery Object
var contents = $('#taskText')[0]; //returns a HTML DOM Object
so you have to change it to get HTML Dom Object
addTask($('#taskText')[0], evt);
As #Phil and #jfriend00 have pointed out, document.getElementById('taskText') is a DOM element, and $('#taskText') is a jQuery object. The latter is an object of all DOM elements that match the selector.
Think of it as a zero based array, you could pass in the DOM element by doing this:
addTask($('#taskText')[0], evt);
I have an object that should be a valid jQuery object. When I look at the variable in FireBug it contains all the jQuery functions I'd expect (clone, remove, removeat, etc.). However, I don't see html() as a valid function and when I do this:
stringValue = myjQueryObject.html();
It does fail, saying html() is not a function. However if I do something like this:
stringValue = myjQueryObject[0].innerHTML;
It will correctly pass back the object, minus the parent div and text (which I would expect, seeing as how it is just getting the innerHtml). What do am I missing here?
As noted below, it was an external library that was generating myjQueryObject that had previously returning a valid jQuery object and was updated ... incorrectly. For posterity's sake, I've updated my unit tests to verify that the external library returns a correct jQuery object, make sure this doesn't return null or undefined:
myjQueryObject.jquery
Thanks all! Had a bit of a freakout when my code suddenly broke this morning.
Either something is modifying the jQuery object prototype, or you have a different library loaded.
Take your object, and test for the jQuery version like this:
alert( myjQueryObject.jquery ); // should give the jQuery version number
EDIT:
Additionally, you state that there's a removeAt method. jQuery doesn't have one of those, unless you mean removeAttr().
Are you sure it's a jquery object? Wrap it in $() again and .html() should exist.
it's [0].innerHTML or .get(0).innerHTML, in that innerHTML is a property not a method.
You should make sure that jquery exists by doing alert( jQuery == $) and you can check for the .jquery property.
That's odd; try $(myjQueryObject).html();. If that works, the object isn't really a jQuery node.
If you still can't figure out why the object lost the html() method, post the code which creates it. Then, we might be able to help.
How are you setting myjQueryObject?
<div id='myElement'></div>
//Good Javascript, Incorrect jQuery
myjQueryObject = document.getElementById('myElement');
myjQueryObject.innerHTML = '<b>My HTML Here</b>';
//Correct jQuery
myjQueryObject = $('#myElement');
myjQueryObject.html('<b>My HTML Here</b>');
//Compact Version of Correct jQuery
$('#myElement').html('<b>My HTML Here</b>');