There is already the html() function in jQuery.
The problem I am having with this function is that, in its returned html string, all the self-closing / are stripped off from the elements. For example,
<div>
<input type="text" name="textbox1" value="" />
</div>
Becomes:
<div>
<input type="text" name="textbox1" value="">
</div>
I know this is normal for this function since this is valid in html.
But I would like to have a function that returns valid xml so that the / is still there in the returned string.
It seems jQuery itself does not provide such a function, so I wonder if anyone knows of any plugin that can make this possible.
Thanks in advance.
I think you are misconceiving how browsers interpret HTML. They don't keep a copy of your source file and modify it according to your Javascript. Rather, a browser reads your HTML and parses it into a DOM representation. This corrects any mistakes you may have made in your HTML. When you try to get the HTML of an element, the element is converted to a string according to the current DOCTYPE. Since you probably have an HTML doctype (it's quite hard to get a browser to genuinely treat your document as XHTML), you get HTML returned to you.
Doing this in Javascript is almost certainly not the way to go.
I think this is what I need.
Thank you very much for everyone's reply.
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-clean/
UPDATE 1: I thought this plugin would work but actually it does not. The way I use it is that, I pass it the html string returned by html() and let it fix the tags which do not properly self-close.
However, the way it corrects the tags is not what I need (seems like a bug).
For example, passing it the following html:
<div><input type="text" id="txt1" name="txt1"><label for="txt1">TextBox1</label></div>
It gives:
<div><input type="text" id="txt1" name="txt1"><label for="txt1">TextBox1</label></input></div>
Rather than:
<div><input type="text" id="txt1" name="txt1" /><label for="txt1">TextBox1</label></div>
UPDATE 2: The bug I mention above is already fixed. This plugin works now. If you want to test it out, feel free to paste your html in this page and see if it works for you:
http://www.antix.co.uk/Content/Demos/jQuery-htmlClean/Test.htm
You could try using the native .innerHTML property (you cen get the native element using .get() in jQuery).
Related
I'm trying to call javascript native method getElementsByName to retrieve the list of all elements with the same name (name="").
Here is the code I'm using with Internet Explorer:
std::vector<FB::JSObjectPtr> nameList = DOMdoc->callMethod<std::vector<FB::JSObjectPtr> >("getElementsByName", FB::variant_list_of("name1");
No result is returned. By executing directly the method in javascript, I have the right number of items:
document.getElementsByName("name1")
I also tried to use directly the getElementById which works but returns only one element:
DOMdoc->getElementById("name1")->getJSObject();
Unfortunately I need to retrieve the list of elements for a radiobutton for exemple:
<input type="radio" name="name1" value="value1">Radio 1<br/>
<input type="radio" name="name1" value="value2">Radio 2<br/>
<input type="radio" name="name1" value="value3">Radio 3<br/>
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.
UPDATE
Just tried with getElementsByTagName without more success:
nameList = DOMdoc->callMethod<std::vector<FB::JSObjectPtr> >("getElementsByTagName", FB::variant_list_of("name1"));
You didn't specify which browser you're using; I'm guessing you're probably using IE. If not this may not help.
There are some methods like that that can't be called directly from a plugin in IE, you have to use the correct interface. That's why there is a special method on FB::DOM::Element for calling that method.
Try something like:
std::vector<FB::DOM::ElementPtr> nameList = DOMdoc->getElementsByTagName("name1");
I'm assuming, though you didn't specify, that you got DOMdoc by calling m_host->getDOMDocument()
Good luck
I tried to capture x-path of a dom element with the help of Firebug source.
It has clearly defined the relevant function as getElementXPath() and I was able get the xpath by passing the Web Element.
But it returns a single x-path and the x-path strategy is unpredictable.
It can be a absolute path or relative path with ID.
Say this is our simple HTML page:
<html>
<body>
<form>
First name: <input id="fname" type="text" name="firstname"><br>
Last name: <input id="lname" type="text" name="lastname">
</form>
</body>
</html>
I am searching for the xpath of the 1st text box here:
//*[#id="fname"]
This is what we get using firebug; as well as using my script which uses the getElementXPath() of Firebug code.
But in Selenium IDE there is a drop down box with a list of suggested paths for a single web element.
id=fname () - id
name=firstname - name
css=#fname - css
//input[#id='fname'] - xpath:attributes
//input - xpath:position
I went through it's code and found that Google AJAXSLT is the default library they are using. And also it says : use “javascript-xpath” for the newer, faster engine.
I checked both scripts but so far I was not able to find any direct function which returns an array of paths.
Is there any simple standalone function like Firebug's getElementXPath() in those libraries?
If i correctly understand you want to try your xpaths in firebug, then try FirePath
Example:
This is my first time using jquery and while this is a fairly simple task I'm stuck already.
I've got a input box with the time of day in it. I would like to create a button to grab the time and send it to a variable (setTime) so I can use the time elsewhere in the script.
However I'm having trouble the variable to pass, I've added an alert window but all I get is either a blank alert or an "undefined" alert.
The first line Start Time.... works fine its the setTime stuff that's broken.
Page header:
setTime = $('#setTime').text();
$('#formTime').timeEntry({show24Hours: true});
Page body:
<p>Start Time <input type="text" size="2" id="formTime" class="spinners" value="" /> </p>
<input type="button" value="Set Time" onclick="$('#setTime').val('#formTime');" />
<input type="button" value="Show Date" onclick="alert(setTime);" />
Thanks
You have to make a few changes to your code.
Update your Html by adding some ids for example.
<p>
Start Time <input type="text" size="2" id="formTime" class="spinners" value="" />
</p>
<input id="setTime" type="button" value="Set Time" />
<input id="showTime" type="button" value="Show Date" />
Personally I don't like assigning script to events within the html controls as they become hard to maintain and add clutter to the page.
You can write script at the bottom of the html page within a script tag or better yet, use an external js file. External js files will also keep your Html clean and your scripts unobtrusive.
var setTime = 0;
var $fromTime = $("#formTime")
$("#setTime").off("click").on("click", function(){
setTime = $fromTime.val();
});
$("#showTime").off("click").on("click", function(){
alert(setTime);
});
See working DEMO
Using jQuery can be confusing at times but the on-line documentation is fantastic.
#setTime means "The element with the id 'setTime'" - you have no element with that id, and the control you are trying to get the value of has no id at all.
timeEntry is not a jQuery method, so will error when you try to call it. If you are using a plugin that you think should add that method then you should say so.
.val('#formTime') will set the value of a form control to the string #formTime. If you want to get the value, don't pass that method an argument … and do assign the return value of the method call to something.
You should probably work through an introduction to programming and JavaScript.
I'm looking to create a form which contains a dynamic number of input text boxes. I would like each text box to form part of an array (this would in theory make it easier for me to loop through them, especially as I won't know the number of text fields that will eventually exist). The HTML code would like something like:
<p>Field 1: <input type="text" name="field[1]" id="field[1]"></p>
<p>Field 2: <input type="text" name="field[2]" id="field[2]"></p>
<p>Field 3: <input type="text" name="field[3]" id="field[3]"></p>
<p>Field 4: <input type="text" name="field[4]" id="field[4]"></p>
<p>Field 5: <input type="text" name="field[5]" id="field[5]"></p>
This data would then be sent to a PHP script and would be represented as an array - or at least, that's the theory.
So my first question is, is this achievable using HTML? Are forms designed to work that way?
If the answer to that is "yes", how would I then go about accessing each of those using jQuery or failing that, plain old JavaScript?
I've attempted to achieve this using the following jQuery code:
someval = $('#field[1]').val();
and
someval = $('#field')[1].val();
and the following JavaScript:
someval = document.getElementById('related_link_url')[1].value;
But I've not had any luck.
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
I should note that from a Javascript point of view, I've had it working where the ID of each element is something like field_1, field_2 etc. However, I feel that if I can achieve it by placing each text box into an array, it would make for tidier and easier to manage code.
Give each element a class and access the group using jQuery:
<p>Field 1: <input type="text" name="field[1]" class="fields"></p>
<p>Field 2: <input type="text" name="field[2]" class="fields"></p>
<!-- etc... -->
jQuery:
$("input.fields").each(function (index)
{
// Your code here
});
This will run the anonymous function on each input element with a classname of "fields", with the this keyword pointing to the current element. See http://api.jquery.com/each/ for more info.
First of all, id attribute cannot contains [ or ] character.
There is lots of ways to get jQuery/plain JavaScript references to these elements. You can use descendant selector:
<fieldset id="list-of-fields">
<!-- your inputs here -->
</fieldset>
$("#list-of-fields input");
document.getElementById("list....").getElementsByTagName("input");
You can also use attribute selector:
$("input[name^=field]");
I'm not sure whether that's the only way but I think in plain JavaScript you'll have to fetch all input elements (document.getElementsByTagName) and then loop through array of these elements and check each element (whether it has name attribute which value starts with field).
I have a form validation routine in JS which cycles through elements of a the first form on the page. I read the size of the elements array like this:
maxi=document.forms[0].elements.length;
This works fine in IE returning 23. In FF it always returns 0 and no validation at all is performed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Move your javascript after the mark up or make sure that it runs after the document is loaded. Sounds like in FF the code is running before the form has been added to the DOM.
You might also consider using a javascript library, such as jQuery (I would recommend this), MooTools, Prototype, etc. to iron out a lot of the inevitable cross-browser issues you will have. Using jQuery, and the validation plugin, the validation code is very simple, using CSS classes to help with validation.
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() { // run on document load
$('form').validate(); // use validation plugin to validate form
});
</script>
<form ...>
<input type="text" id="txt" name="txt" class="required" /> <!-- a required element -->
<input type="text" id="num" name="num" class="required number" /> <!-- a required, numeric element -->
...
</form>
You should try some interactive javascript console to test issues like this -
but, for this particular thing, you could use the "for ...in" form of for to iterate over the elements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreach#JavaScript
Probably, however, it is the "elements" property which is non-standard there, so you will need to check the DOMs to get to a better way to retrieve the form widgets as objects.
And finally: beware of cleint side verification: it is often a burden to users and, if special care is not taken, it is to ease to have your forms stop working on a variety of browsers/platforms due to a verification which is mostly meaningless anyway (since you must verify the lenght of data entered server side in either case)