Javascript - GetColoumnValue - IE6 problem - javascript

I have a js function named "GetListColumnValue". This function causes some problems with IE6. Is there any way to avoid the problem? (I thnk the problem is occured because of the concat) Here is the code sample. The last line is my solution which I am not sure that it works well. Any suggestions? Thanks.
function GetListColumnValue(listName, columnName) {
return document.getElementById(listName + "_" + columnName).value;
}
var DISCOUNT_QUANTITY = GetListColumnValue("lstRecords", "DISCOUNT_QUANTITY");
var DISCOUNT_QUANTITY = document.getElementById("lstRecords_DISCOUNT_QUANTITY");

IE6 has many many problems, but simple JS string concat isn't one of them. I don't think that's your problem.
You didn't specify what exactly the problem is, but looking at the two code samples you provided, they will do different things:
The first one (ie the function) returns the object.value, whereas the second one (ie setting it directly), you've just returned the object.
So the two code blocks set DISCOUNT_QUANTITY to different things. If you remove the .value from the function, it should work exactly the same as the other code block.
Hope that helps.

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What makes those two invocations of addEventListener differ, resulting in one having an effect and the other not?

I was trying to write a Greasemonkey script that hooks to onclick of a specific element. Here's the code that doesn't work (seems to be ignored silently, has no observable effect):
img = document.evaluate('//img [#title="Play / Pause"]', document.body).iterateNext()
result = img.addEventListener("click", OnPlay)
On one chat, I got a similar, but working solution:
Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('img[title="Play / Pause"]')).forEach(elem => elem.addEventListener("click", OnPlay))
Apart from one being functional and the other imperative, what made one of them work and the other one not? The console seems to give me no clues.
I was just poking in the dark which did contain the answer though. So, that the question does not remain answerless, I'm adding this.
The issue apparently was that both scripts are not equivalent, and the iterateNext() only returns one element and not multiple.

Javascript: Array not shifting, multiple setTimeout functions (JSON)

I'm really stuck on this javascript question!
So I'm making a web page that will be completely animated (so it can be used for display for example in a television). That animation will be configurable by the user (stored in a database).
Right now, I've already made the code to store the configuration and to get the configuration (I do an AJAX call and save the configuration in an array of json objects) and everything is as it should be.
The problem is in the animation in which I go through the array and use setTimeout function to create animations. To iterate through the array I rotate it
(I use array.push(array.shift()) according to the answer here).
The first time the intervalmaster function is used, everything goes according to plan, but when the function is called again I need to rotate the array once more (because of the last animation) and the array just doesn't rotate!
Bellow I've left a portion of the code that I'm using that reproduces the problem I'm getting. I've also added the array jsonanima with some possible values (In reality the array is probably much bigger and with higher values).
I really don't understand what is happening, I've also considered that this could be a problem of the multiple setTimeout functions because I've read somewhere (couldn't find the link, sorry!) that is not really advised to use multiple setTimeout.
If that's the case is there any other way to do this?
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: Thanks to the comment from mplungjan I've realized that if change the console.log(jsonanimate) to console.log(JSON.stringfy(jsonanima)) it outputs the correct values (the json array rotated). This got me even more confused! Why do I need to JSON.stringfy to get the array in the correct order?!
Anyway, can't test this with the full code now as I'm not in the office, tomorrow I'll give more feedback. Thank you mplungjan.
EDIT2: Finally solved my problem! So the thing was the call to the function recursivegroup (recursivegroup(0);), this call was made before I rotated the array, so when restarting the animation the array would still have the incorrect values and every sub-sequential value was wrong.
A special thanks to mplungjan and trincot for the comments that helped me debug this problem.
Bellow I leave the code corrected so anybody with the same problem can check it out.
jsonanima=[{"VD":5,"A":10,"diff":0.25},{"L":7,"IE":8,"diff":0.25}];
function intervalmaster(flag){
function recursivegroup(index)
{
if(index==0)
{
//animateeach(jsonanima,0);
}
setTimeout(function(){
//HERE IT WORKS
jsonanima.push(jsonanima.shift());
console.log(JSON.stringify(jsonanima));
//animateeach(jsonanima,0);
//removed the if statement, since it was irrelevant as mplungjan noted
recursivegroup(index+1);
},(jsonanima[0]['diff'])*60*1000);
}
//Changed this
//recursivegroup(0);
var mastertime=0;
for(var key in jsonanima)
{
mastertime+=(jsonanima[key]['diff']);
}
console.log(mastertime,flag);
console.log(JSON.stringify(jsonanima));
if(flag==true)
{
jsonanima.push(jsonanima.shift());
console.log(JSON.stringify(jsonanima));
}
//changed to here
recursivegroup(0);
masterinterval=setTimeout(function(){intervalmaster(true)},mastertime*60*1000);
}
intervalmaster(false);

"in" operator showing functions in javascript

in my code I was always doing
for(i in vector)...
and it always worked, but the problem is that it somehow changed and now my for shows all the values but also the properties, like "remove" that is a function, and it is breaking my whole code.
I don't know why it suddenly changed, because I didn't do anything and I'm getting crazy with this already.
Do you guys know what is happening with my application?
Another thing is that the code only get this problem on my computer.
If I clone my repository again and try it works for while but then starts the problem again.
Thank you.
The in operator has always had this behaviour. Just check that the property exists directly on the object instead of on the prototype:
for (var i in vector) {
if (vector.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
// Property exists on object
}
}
That should solve your issues.
Tom

javascript performance for Array

i tried to figure out, what is different between two versions of a small code-snippet in execution. Do not try to understand, what this is for. This is the final code after deleting all the other stuff to find the performance problem.
function test(){
var start=new Date(), times=100000;
var l=["a","a"];
for(var j=0;j<times;j++){
var result=document.getElementsByTagName(l[0]), rl=result.length;
for(var i=0;i<rl;i++){
l[0]=result[i];
}
}
var end=new Date();
return "by=" + (end-start);
}
For me this snippets takes 236ms in Firefox, but if you change l[0]=result[i]; to l[1]=result[i]; it only takes 51ms. Same happens if I change document.getElementsByTagName(l[0]) to document.getElementsByTagName(l[1]). And if both are change the snippet will be slow again.
After using Google Chrome with DevTools/Profiles I see that a toString function is added when executing the slow code. But i have no chance to get which toString this is and why it is needed in that case.
Can you please tell me what is the difference for the browser so that it will take 5 times longer than the other?
Thanks
If you only change one of the indexes to 0 or 1, the code doesn't do the same thing anymore. If you change both indexes, the performance remains identical.
When using the same index for reading and writing, what happens is that the value stored in l[0] is used in the next call to getElementsByTagName, which has to call toString on it.
In the code above you use l[0] to search for an element. Then you change l[0] und search again and so on. If you now change only one of the two uses (not both!) to l[1], you don't change what you are searching for, which boosts the performance.
That is why when you change both it is slow again.

How to increase speed of getElementById() function on IE or give other solutions?

I have a project using Javascript parse json string and put data into div content.
In this case, all of itemname variables is the same div's id.
If variable i about 900, I run this code in Firefox 3 for <10ms, but it run on IE 7 for >9s, IE process this code slower 100 times than Firefox
I don't know what happen with IE ?
If I remove the line document.getElementById(itemname), speed of them seems the same.
The main problem arcording to me is document.getElementById() function?
Could you show me how to solve this prolem to increase this code on IE ?
Thank in advance.
var i = obj.items.length-2;
hnxmessageid = obj.items[i+1].v;
do{
itemname = obj.items[i].n;
itemvalue = obj.items[i].v;
document.getElementByid(itemname);
i--;
}while(i>=0);
Are you really noticing any latency?
gEBI is natively very very fast, I don't think you can avoid it anyway for what you're doing. Could you provide a low-down of what you're doing precisely? It looks like you're using a loop, but can you post exactly what you're doing inside of the loop, what your common goal of the script is?
document.getElementByid(itemname) is the fastest way to get a single element from the DOM in any real application you will sould not see any problems with using it, if you do see a problem you need to rethink you code a little it possible to acomplish any task with just a handfull of calls for this method. You can present you full problem if you like so I could show you an example
At least cache the reference to document:
var doc = document;
for(;;) {
doc.getElementById(..);
}

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