[jQuery] [tooltip] Tooltip plugin not behaving in IE7

2009-12-14 Thread fredriley
Hi It looks like the 'quirkiness' of IE is rearing its ugly little head again, unless I'm doing something really dopey. If you view the test doc at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/jquery_tooltip_plugin_test.html in a proper browser such as Firefox or Opera, the Tooltip

[jQuery] Thanks to all jQuery developers

2009-06-23 Thread fredriley
I don't know if this is said often enough as I'm a relative newbie to jQuery, but I'd just like to say a big THANK YOU!! to all those involved in the jQuery project - developers, documentation writers, contributors to this group, and anyone else I've forgotten. Whilst, for me at least, jQuery was

[jQuery] Re: jQuery UI dialog not behaving

2009-06-19 Thread fredriley
Thanks for the reply, Charlie. Sorry I've not got back on it until now. On Jun 11, 10:32 pm, Charlie charlie...@gmail.com wrote: try taking the dialog constructor out of the click functions maybe load is firing before the dialog call is complete this seems to be the norm, not trying to build

[jQuery] Re: jQuery UI dialog not behaving

2009-06-19 Thread fredriley
Thanks for the reply, Charlie. Sorry I've not got back on it until now. On Jun 11, 10:32 pm, Charlie charlie...@gmail.com wrote: try taking the dialog constructor out of the click functions maybe load is firing before the dialog call is complete this seems to be the norm, not trying to build

[jQuery] jQuery UI dialog not behaving

2009-06-11 Thread fredriley
Sorry to post again, but again jQuery has me defeated completely despite using simple code. This time I'm trying to use the excellent UI library, and in particular dialogue windows. All I want to do is open an external file in a dialogue, to save using standard popup windows. I've got a test up

[jQuery] Re: Can jQuery parse XML locally?

2009-06-09 Thread fredriley
what it is but I think it is a security thing in IE. Once you put it on a server though, it should work (at least it did for me). On Jun 4, 1:51 pm, fredriley fred.ri...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 2, 6:42 pm, jsuggs jsu...@gmail.com wrote: Basic answer, yes.  If you copied and pasted

[jQuery] Click event on dynamically-generated link

2009-06-04 Thread fredriley
Sorry to post again to this group, but again jQuery has me stumped on what seems like a simple task. I've a test doc up at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/xml/jquery_xml3.html and if you click on any of the static links (class=rlo_link) you'll get an alert, meaning that the

[jQuery] Re: Click event on dynamically-generated link

2009-06-04 Thread fredriley
On Jun 4, 3:50 pm, waseem sabjee waseemsab...@gmail.com wrote: $(.mylinkclass).live(click, function() { alert(it Worked); }): Thanks very much for the swift and helpful reply. I'd not come across 'live' before, but looking at the docs http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live it's plainly what I

[jQuery] Re: Click event on dynamically-generated link

2009-06-04 Thread fredriley
Thanks to you as well for the swift reply. On Jun 4, 4:04 pm, MorningZ morni...@gmail.com wrote: I'd suggest to understand why your dynamic objects are wired up, thoroughly read this article http://www.learningjquery.com/2008/03/working-with-events-part-1 Thanks, I'll read it carefully.

[jQuery] Re: Can jQuery parse XML locally?

2009-06-04 Thread fredriley
On Jun 2, 6:42 pm, jsuggs jsu...@gmail.com wrote: Basic answer, yes.  If you copied and pasted the example html, then the url parameter references labels.xml, which would have to reside in the same directory as where you saved the html file. Also, don't forget that you also need the jquery

[jQuery] Can jQuery parse XML locally?

2009-06-02 Thread fredriley
Ok, perhaps that's a provocative subject line, but it is my basic question. I'm testing jQuery's capacity for parsing XML files, and have immediately hit the error: Access to restricted URI denied code: 1012 This came simply from replicating the example at

[jQuery] Re: Can jQuery parse XML locally?

2009-06-02 Thread fredriley
On Jun 2, 6:42 pm, jsuggs jsu...@gmail.com wrote: Basic answer, yes.  If you copied and pasted the example html, then the url parameter references labels.xml, which would have to reside in the same directory as where you saved the html file. Also, don't forget that you also need the jquery

[jQuery] [tooltip] Blocking tooltips

2009-05-28 Thread fredriley
Hi all I'm using the Tooltip plugin (http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/ jquery-plugin-tooltip/) on a test page (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ ~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/jquery_formtest1.html). It works fine as it stands. I want the user to be able to toggle tooltips on/off, and a demo on the

[jQuery] Re: [tooltip] Blocking tooltips

2009-05-28 Thread fredriley
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks, Jörn. I suppose I'd have stumbled across that solution eventually, but I really wanted to know *why* it wasn't working, which you've now explained. I had a look in the plugin docs for block() but couldn't see it mentioned. Is it an 'undocumented feature', or have I

[jQuery] [tooltip]

2009-04-01 Thread fredriley
I've a wee problem with Jörn's excellent Tooltip plugin, to do with image maps. This problem, I think (the example links now 404), was also reported by John on the Tooltip plugin page (http:// bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/). Simply, with an image map the tooltips appear a

[jQuery] [tooltip] Tooltips out of position with imagemaps

2009-04-01 Thread fredriley
[Aargh! Sorry, I forgot to add a proper subject line to the message I've just posted, so it got tagged onto another thread. Here we area again, hopefully in a new thread.] I've a wee problem with Jörn's excellent Tooltip plugin, to do with image maps. This problem, I think (the example links now

[jQuery] Re: [tooltip]

2009-04-01 Thread fredriley
Sorry, please ignore this message, which I posted without a proper subject line hence it's appending to this thread. I've reposted it in a new thread with the subject [tooltip] Tooltips out of position with imagemaps. Cheers Fred

[jQuery] Re: Tooltips out of position with imagemaps

2009-04-01 Thread fredriley
DOUBLE AARRGGH!! Sorry, I just realised my simple, stupid mistake - I'd forgotten to link in the jquery.tooltip.css file in the HTML docs. Now I have done so, the tooltips work fine. D'OH!!! :(( So there's no problem at all. Thanks again to Jörn for this and other plugins, which are all the

[jQuery] Re: Documentation on comparative operators?

2009-01-20 Thread fredriley
On Jan 19, 4:28 pm, MorningZ morni...@gmail.com wrote: If you look @ the document for .is() http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/is#expr Ah (light bulb goes off above head), now I get it. It hadn't occurred to me to look in the Traversing section of the docs. You really do have to internalise

[jQuery] Documentation on comparative operators?

2009-01-19 Thread fredriley
Hi My first message on this board after some weeks learning, and fighting with, jQuery. My main question is: is there any documentation on simple comparative operators in jQuery? I'm thinking of =, , , , that sort of thing. I'm aware that these symbols aren't used in jquery, so that to test

[jQuery] Re: Selecting an element whose ID is in a variable

2008-10-28 Thread fredriley
the usual JS string methods to get what you need. -- Josh - Original Message - From: fredriley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jQuery (English) jquery-en@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:13 PM Subject: [jQuery] Selecting an element whose ID is in a variable This has got

[jQuery] Selecting an element whose ID is in a variable

2008-10-27 Thread fredriley
This has got to be a FAQ, but I can't see it in the FAQ so here goes, and apologies if it's a stupid question but I'm a relative newbie to jQuery: How can I select an element whose id is stored in a constructed string variable? What I mean is something like the following. In a document I've got

[jQuery] Re: [autocomplete]

2008-07-17 Thread fredriley
On Jul 16, 6:54 pm, Jörn Zaefferer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or get a copy of Learning jQuery and read half an hour in the morning or evening. Jörn shrug A half hour for a techie genius, perhaps. For the rest of us mortals, rather longer. It's a complex system is jQuery, as are so many of the

[jQuery] Re: [autocomplete]

2008-07-16 Thread fredriley
[apologies if this reply appears twice - my session had ended when I hit post the first time so I wasn't sure if I'd made it as it didn't appear on a page refresh.] On Jul 15, 9:36 pm, Jörn Zaefferer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out the demo (http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/),

[jQuery] Re: [autocomplete]

2008-07-16 Thread fredriley
On Jul 15, 9:36 pm, Jörn Zaefferer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out the demo (http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/), pick the example that comes closest to your requirement, and take a look at the code for that one. Firebug helps a lot there. Thanks for the reply, Jörn, and sorry

[jQuery] Re: [autocomplete]

2008-07-16 Thread fredriley
Thanks a lot, Jörn. I did try twice to post a detailed reply to your reply, but nothing's appeared here so it looks like it's fallen into a cyber black hole. No bother. Incorporating your very useful help I've managed to create a revised and working test at:

[jQuery] [autocomplete]

2008-07-15 Thread fredriley
Hi I'm new to jQuery and to this list. This is a question I sent to another web developer's list yesterday, after spending many hours trying and failing to get the Autocomplete (http://docs.jquery.com/ Plugins/Autocomplete) jQuery plugin to do what I wanted: ~ Ok, I give in - I've been