Re: [jQuery] Taconite Plugin - New and Improved!

2007-02-11 Thread Matt Grimm
Mike, this is an extraordinary idea. I'm still working out exactly how I can implement it into my current projects, but this could very well change the way I use JavaScript in heavy AJAX environments. This allows me to use true AJAX (as opposed to AHAH) while still maintaining the flexibility of

Re: [jQuery] jQuery guru wanted for small contract, good $

2007-02-06 Thread Matt Grimm
This can (and should) be done without jQuery. See the following excellent resources: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/index.htm (Listamatic 1 and 2) http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [jQuery] Textarea character count

2007-01-23 Thread Matt Grimm
What about this (untested): $('textarea').change( function() { $(this).prepend('Current length:nbsp;span id=' + this.id + '_len' + this.value.length + '/spannbsp;characters'); $('#' + this.id + '_len').css('color', (( this.value.length parseInt( this.id.split()[1] )) ? 'red' :

Re: [jQuery] Using $.blockUI() to make modal dialog

2007-01-18 Thread Matt Grimm
May I just say, Mike, in regards to the blockUI plugin: bravo. This is so timely and relevant to my needs it's almost like you read my mind. Many many thanks. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Alsup Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007

Re: [jQuery] Stop an ajax call

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Grimm
Klaus -- brilliant! The abort method on the XHR object absolutely works. I've been searching for that functionality without success, so thanks very much for the tip. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klaus Hartl Sent: Friday, January

Re: [jQuery] Stop an ajax call

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Grimm
To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] Stop an ajax call Matt Grimm schrieb: Klaus -- brilliant! The abort method on the XHR object absolutely works. I've been searching for that functionality without success, so thanks very much for the tip. Great! I wonder if the complete or maybe error

Re: [jQuery] jquery autocomplete and mysql

2006-12-17 Thread Matt Grimm
This is really a PHP question... Your foreach loop is redefining the $returnData variable with every iteration, so you'll only end up returning the last country in the array. It looks like your mysql_fetch_array loop is also flawed in that it writes to the same variables with each loop,

Re: [jQuery] Tabs update: disabling/enabling

2006-11-30 Thread Matt Grimm
Nice. Much cleaner than: $(...).addClass('tabs-hide'); m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klaus Hartl Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:55 AM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: [jQuery] Tabs update: disabling/enabling Hi jQuerians,

Re: [jQuery] Parameters truncated after $.post

2006-11-30 Thread Matt Grimm
How is your data parameter formatted in the $.post call? It should be an object of key/value pairs rather than a request uri string like 'key=valuekey2=value2'. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Baudson Sent: Thursday,

[jQuery] load() doesn't fire ajaxComplete()

2006-11-28 Thread Matt Grimm
Is there a good reason that the AJAX convenience function load() doesn't fire the ajaxComplete method (and its friends)? It doesn't make sense to me that only the $.ajax() method would fire ajaxComplete (et al) when load() is an AJAX method too... m.

Re: [jQuery] Tabs plugin callbacks - what makes most sense?

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Grimm
: [jQuery] Tabs plugin callbacks - what makes most sense? Matt Grimm schrieb: I'm a big fan of this idea, Klaus, and even made a first attempt at integrating my own pre-callback. It's useful to me because I am dynamically loading (via AHAH) the content of each tab and I want the content to load

Re: [jQuery] Tabs plugin callbacks - what makes most sense?

2006-11-22 Thread Matt Grimm
I'm a big fan of this idea, Klaus, and even made a first attempt at integrating my own pre-callback. It's useful to me because I am dynamically loading (via AHAH) the content of each tab and I want the content to load before the tab actually makes the switch. As it is, the tab switches to an empty

Re: [jQuery] Which CMS / Wiki jQuery.com is using

2006-11-14 Thread Matt Grimm
And I believe Drupal is the CMS behind the rest of it. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of howard chen Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:15 AM To: discuss@jquery.com Subject: [jQuery] Which CMS / Wiki jQuery.com is using as title...

[jQuery] Refresh an image with dynamic src URL?

2006-11-13 Thread Matt Grimm
What would be an ideal way to refresh an image whose src attribute is a script that dynamically generates the image? Would it be best to store the value of the src attribute in a variable, remove the img element from the DOM, and append a new image element with the same URL? In my quick tests, it

Re: [jQuery] Refresh an image with dynamic src URL?

2006-11-13 Thread Matt Grimm
an image with dynamic src URL? Is this not working for you? $("img.whatever").attr("src","newurl.gif"); Glen On 11/13/06, Matt Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be an ideal way to refresh an image whose src attribute is ascript that dynamically generat

Re: [jQuery] Refresh an image with dynamic src URL?

2006-11-13 Thread Matt Grimm
an image with dynamic src URL? If you want to defeat the cache you could try appending the current time as a query string: img.src = fileName + ? + (new Date()).getTime(); -blair Matt Grimm wrote: What would be an ideal way to refresh an image whose src attribute is a script that dynamically

Re: [jQuery] Refresh an image with dynamic src URL?

2006-11-13 Thread Matt Grimm
I like this method too, since it puts the work on PHP instead of _javascript_, but unfortunately, in this case, I do not control the image generating script. m. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron HeimlichSent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:34 PMTo: jQuery

Re: [jQuery] Loop through all elements of a form

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Grimm
In order to access the underlying DOM object, you use the .get(n) method on the jQuery object. $(#editarticle/form).get(0).elements.length; $(#editarticle/form).get(0).reset(); Or, using jQuery, you could get all relevant form elements like so: $(#editarticle/form :input); And reset them

[jQuery] Interface Autocompleter throbber idea

2006-11-09 Thread Matt Grimm
I've added just three lines of code to the Interface plugin's Autocompleter to support a new parameter that is the name of a CSS class to apply to the lucky input field while performing an AJAX autocomplete call. This allows a throbber image to be used as the background of the input field, just

[jQuery] Hitting enter in Interface's Autocompleter suggestion box

2006-10-12 Thread Matt Grimm
Is it currently possible for the Interface plugin's Autocompleter to trap enter key presses so that the highlighted suggestion is selected per usual but then the form is not submitted? Without using autofill, it appears that there are two ways to select a suggestion -- clicking with the mouse and

Re: [jQuery] Hitting enter in Interface's Autocompleter suggestion box

2006-10-12 Thread Matt Grimm
anyone else been successful with the build that was posted yesterday? I'm using jQuery 1.0.1, but a quick test with 1.0.2 didn't have any effect either. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Grimm Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:18

Re: [jQuery] Hitting enter in Interface's Autocompleter suggestionbox

2006-10-12 Thread Matt Grimm
Answering my own question... iAutocompleter now requires iUtil, which is (so far as I can see) undocumented. Include that other library and the autocompleter works as expected. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Grimm Sent

Re: [jQuery] form plugin updates

2006-10-10 Thread Matt Grimm
Nice work Mike. How should I go about deleting the FastSerialize wiki page I created on jQuery.com now? A request to John I suppose? m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Alsup Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:10 PM To: jQuery

Re: [jQuery] search for id with '/' character

2006-10-06 Thread Matt Grimm
Your problem is that you prefixed the input selector with #. This works: $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bar]').val(); On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, if I have a form like form input type=text value=test id=content/mytest/ /form How can I get the

Re: [jQuery] 'fast' serialize and 'semantic' serialize method

2006-10-06 Thread Matt Grimm
Nice. Another optimization just came to me, after seeing you filter out the 'option' elements in the semantic selector... you can filter them before they are returned, which speeds it up considerably: $('*:not(option)', this) As a side question, what advantage is there to calling the jQuery

Re: [jQuery] search for id with '/' character

2006-10-06 Thread Matt Grimm
No, that doesn't work, and I'm assuming it has something to do with the forward slash being an XPath selector. m. On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:21 -0400, Wil Stuckey wrote: couldn't you just do: $('#foo/bar').val(); ? -wil On 10/6/06, Matt Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your

Re: [jQuery] Fast form serializer function for review

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
Thanks for catching this Klaus, I've updated the code to normalize tag names. m. On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:21 +0200, Klaus Hartl wrote: Klaus Hartl schrieb: Please make it XHTML as XML compatible (hm, why is it always me complaining about that?)...: There's missing a part, I'm sorry,

Re: [jQuery] Fast form serializer function for review

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
() { to: var f = 'INPUT,TEXTAREA,SELECT,BUTTON'; $(f, this).each(function() { BTW, what do you mean when you say it isn't a plugin? Looks like one to me. :-) -Mike From: Matt Grimm I've put together a fast form serializer function that I'm hoping can get some review from

Re: [jQuery] Fast form serializer function for review

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
The option:selected is the only syntax that has worked for me in the past. The XPath method only gets those options that literally have an attribute of selected in the XHTML. I also agree with you on the matter of excluding this.id as a fallback for n. It's unnecessary and possibly confusing

Re: [jQuery] Fast form serializer function for review

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
Good point, Jörn. Not only would you want to be able to submit an empty string value for an option, but if the value attribute is excluded from the option tag, this.value will return the text between the tags anyway. m. On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:17 +0200, Jörn Zaefferer wrote: Matt Grimm schrieb

Re: [jQuery] Fast form serializer function for review

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
}); }); return a; }; On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:02 -0800, Matt Grimm wrote: Hello, I've put together a fast form serializer function that I'm hoping can get some review from the list for completeness, bugs, a better name, etc. A previous thread revealed quite a performance issue

Re: [jQuery] Parsing XML responses from AJAX calls

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
Disregard. I solved the problem. m. On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 12:56 -0800, Matt Grimm wrote: I was under the impression that the following code should work, but I'm having no luck at all. I have a PHP script that returns a simple XML string and I need to get the value of the one and only element

Re: [jQuery] Parsing XML responses from AJAX calls

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
, for html requests, so I could easily get at the dom of my xhtml. After a while I decided it was just as easy to regex thru the text as it is to $('node',xml). so my advise is to check the typeof xml. Jake On 10/3/06, Matt Grimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression

[jQuery] FastSerialize plugin posted in wiki

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Grimm
FYI, I posted the FastSerialize plugin in the jQuery wiki: http://jquery.com/docs/Plugins/FastSerialize/ Thought it would be more useful on the website until it was decided whether it might be included with the form plugin. Mike (Alsup), is it ultimately your call how this gets incorporated? I

Re: [jQuery] Single Value Attributes

2006-10-02 Thread Matt Grimm
I'm all for that. I've always thought it awkward of XHTML to have the value of those attributes be the same as their name. Naturally, you may want to support the existing syntax as well for backwards compatibility. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[jQuery] Fast form serializer function for review

2006-10-02 Thread Matt Grimm
Hello, I've put together a fast form serializer function that I'm hoping can get some review from the list for completeness, bugs, a better name, etc. A previous thread revealed quite a performance issue with the form plugin's existing serialize function when operating on a form with a large

Re: [jQuery] Getting Selectbox selected value. Works in IE not FF.

2006-09-28 Thread Matt Grimm
This is all that's needed: $('#mySelect').val() If you wanted the text value of the selected option rather than it's value attribute, you could do: $('#mySelect :selected').text() m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rey Bango Sent:

Re: [jQuery] Getting Selectbox selected value. Works in IE not FF.

2006-09-28 Thread Matt Grimm
(); and this: $('#mySelect [EMAIL PROTECTED]').text(); The latter was code that I grabbed from an earlier posting. Rey... Matt Grimm wrote: This is all that's needed: $('#mySelect').val() If you wanted the text value of the selected option rather than it's value attribute, you could do

Re: [jQuery] Form plugin's serialize(): performance issues

2006-09-28 Thread Matt Grimm
Mike, Where are you finding the Firebug timer? I'm not seeing much of a performance boost using the for loop, but without a true timer, it's not a fair test... m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Alsup Sent: Thursday, September 28,

[jQuery] Form plugin's serialize(): performance issues

2006-09-27 Thread Matt Grimm
I've run into a significant performance issue with the form plugin's serialize method; not a bug per se, but definitely a show-stopper for me. The problem is that I have a form with a select element, which has around 250 options. The serialize method grabs *all* child elements of the form before

Re: [jQuery] Form plugin's serialize(): performance issues

2006-09-27 Thread Matt Grimm
support the OR selector '|', otherwise that'd work quite nicely. The problem is that I don't know how this would work without using *, and filtering away what you don't need - while still keeping the order of all the elements that you want. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. --John On 9/27/06, Matt

Re: [jQuery] Get attribute form $()

2006-09-25 Thread Matt Grimm
Or to stay with jQuery objects: $('type', line).eq(0).val() From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair McKenzieSent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:53 PMTo: jQuery Discussion.Subject: Re: [jQuery] Get attribute form $() I don't know about the other stuff, but

Re: [jQuery] ThickBox - closing without using the mouse?

2006-09-12 Thread Matt Grimm
A more browser-compatible way to check for the pressed key code is: if (!e) var e = window.event; keycode = e.keyCode || e.which; That might work for you, Jim. m. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Davis Sent: Tuesday, September 12,

Re: [jQuery] Next Div

2006-09-06 Thread Matt Grimm
This ought to work: $(a.questionLink).toggle(function(){ $(this).next().slideDown(slow); },function(){ $(this).next().slideUp(slow); }); m. On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 13:30 -0700, Lipka, Glen wrote: This is probably simple, but I keep messing it up. I have a list of anchor links