Access elements inside a Layout View - javascript

I am currently working on a website which uses MVC model.
I have a Layout page and 4 pages(home,contactus,aboutus,ourwork) which use this Layout. I am having this situation where I want to use the html element defined in layout page in one of the page(ex. home).
use in the sense modify certain property of that element(using javascript).
example:
lets say there is a button defined in layout page and i want to change the display property of the button when some action happens in home page

Yes, it is possible! You have to create a global Javascript file and add that into the layout body and select the element you want, e.g.:
If the element id is readm, put the script into that file:
var readm= $("#readm");
Include the script file src into the layout body, e.g.:
If the filename is accesselement.js:
<script src="accesselement.js">
Use the variable name in your view in which that element is required.
That's it.

Related

Insert schema data inside html tag with javascript

I am wondering if there is a way to insert text, schema data in particular, into a html div tag using javascript. I know there are methods for modifying existing values inside a tag such as class, href, title, but can't seem to find a way to add something new.
Basically I have <div id="main"> and I want to modify it to be <div id="main" itemtype="http://schema.org/SomeCategory" itemscope> and to be able to remove it later.
The context for such a need is using fetch / js to replace parts of webpages rather than reloading the entire page. The product pages use the schema notation, whereas general info pages do not, though all templates use the "main" div.
Unbeknownst to me, the innerHTML function attached to the body tag allows me to change actual div tags using replace. So it is simple:
input ='<div id="main">';
output='<div id="main" itemtype="http://schema.org/SomeCategory" itemscope>';
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(input,output);

JavaScript DIV Editing Destroys Functionality of Other Elements

So my website is built using a company's software called Inksoft which leaves me very little to work in the way of customization. So I have to do many workarounds.
Here is my site's homepage.
The header on top of the page only has two links right now. "Products" and "Design Studio". My goal is to add an "About Us" link and "Buyers Guide" to the header as well.
I cannot add new content to the header using Inksoft's backend. So I coded a workaround to replace the content of existing DIV's within the header to say and link to where I want them to go.
The only issue is, the responsive mobile-nav loses functionality when this is implemented. As seen here on this test page.
The test page has the About Us in the top header, added by the use of this code:
<script>
$("#header-nav-designs").html('<document.write="<li id="header-nav-studio"><font color="#000000">About Us</font></li>');
</script>
So, the simplified question is: how do I implement this code without losing the responsive functionality of the nav bar?
The jQuery .html function will replace the HTML inside the target element. If you want to just append the one value, you likely want to .append to the element.
In addition, you aren't setting the HTML to a valid html string. You probably just want to get rid of the <document.write=" at the beginning of the string. The rest of it looks fine with just a cursory glance.
So:
<script>
$("#header-nav-designs").append('<li id="header-nav-studio"><font color="#000000">About Us</font></li>');
</script>
Edit:
After looking at it a little more, it appears as though the $('#header-nav-designs') that you are selecting is already an <li> which means you need to either select the parent <ul> list or you can use the jquery .after function instead.
<script>
$("#header-nav-designs").after('<li id="header-nav-studio"><font color="#000000">About Us</font></li>');
</script>
And as someone else commented above, you are getting an error on the page. It appears as though you are trying to get an element with the id divID and the appending some html to it, but there is no element with the id divID and so you are getting an error saying that you can't read the property innerHTML of null as the call to document.getElementById is returning null (element not found).
Element id header-nav-designs witch your code is referring have CSS style on line 170:
#header-nav-designs {display:none;}
The element will be hidden, and the page will be displayed as if the element is not there. With display:none;
If I understand you correctly your code selector points to wrong element id. It should point $(".header-nav > ul"). Document.write is not needed inside jQuery you need to give only an valid html string as argument.
jQuery html function erase html that is all ready inside element and replace it with html string given as argument. You have to use append if you want to add more html but not remove what is allready in element.
$(".header-nav > ul").append('<li><font color="#000000">About Us</font></li>');
$(".header-nav > ul").append('<li><font color="#000000">Buyers Guide</font></li>');

Accessing id of dynamic x3d inline element

I am trying to access x3d nodes with javascript. I am adding further x3d elements with the following code:
var scene = document.getElementById('scene');
inline = document.createElement('inline');
inline.setAttribute('nameSpaceName', 'myX3d');
inline.setAttribute('url', '1_2__0_elem.x3d');
inline.setAttribute('mapDEFToID', 'true');
inline.setAttribute('render', 'true');
inline.setAttribute('load', 'true');
scene.appendChild(inline);
The elements get displays and it works fine. But now I want to change the attributes inside 1_2__0_elem.x3d, but I always get null as return value of document.getElementById("myX3d__inner"). It works when I am adding it without javascript. Is there a way to access the id of dynamic elements with js?
Thanks in advance, clax
I found an alternative way to solve my problem (access during render time with javascript). I used php to write all files of interest in the main x3d file. I set the render tag "false" and the load tag "true". On client side the attribute render tag gets changed to "true" by an user request. If too many files are inside the main .x3d file load can be set to false or can be deleted by php.

Static content in website

I've got a website and I'd like to make a part of it static. What happens is that the header, the menu bar and the footer are consistent in every page. I'd like to have them always loaded and when I click the menu button, it will only reload what is the body of the site.
Is there a simple chunck of code that can early achieve this? Something in js or ajax? I'm sorry but I don't have enough experience in these languages to accomplish something on my own. I've already tried to check jQuery library but it's still pretty confusing to me.
Thank you.
I think you don't even need Ajax or css!! Just use iFrames!! They are awesome, what happens is that u only design one page as the holder of your static content (Header-Menu ...) and put one iFrame in there as a place holder for any page you want to load in it, u should use proper css code to place the iFrame where you want, now, for every link in your menu, just set the "target" attribute equal to your iFrame's name and all the links will be loaded in that iFrame and your page won't be reloaded with every link click... I'll be back with some code...
Just add in every page a div container with ID for header, menubar and footer and just load it with this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#header').load('header.html');
$('#menubar').load('menubar.html');
$('#footer').load('footer.html');
});
Just make sure that the html files don't have html, head or body tags within, only the HTML-Code you would write inside the div. It's just like the include function in PHP.
EDIT:
For easy and simple implementation store the code above inside a .js file (e.g. include.js) and add this inside every head just below the include of all other scripts of your html files:
<script type="text/javascript" src="include.js"></script>
EDIT2:
Another solution ist to load the content of the page instead of the header, menubar, footer.
Here you take the same specifications (no html, body, etc. tags inside your content html files)
Name your content div e.g. <div id="content"></div>
Your navbar for example:
<div id="navbar">
Content1
Content2
</div>
JavaScript Code:
$(document).ready(function() {
//Click on a link that's child of the navbar
$('#navbar > a').click(function() {
//Get the html file (e.g. content1.html)
var file = $(this).attr('href');
//Load this file into the #content
$('#content').load(file);
return false;
});
});
You should consider the use of Server Side Included : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/ssi.html
It's not quite easy to understand (as it refer to apache configuration), but this is a really great solution.
In a nutshell, you include parts of html code in you main page :
<!--#include virtual="/footer.html" -->
You won't have to use or understand all JQuery Framewol, user agent won't have to parse (if they are able to !) Javascript.
This is a pretty good replacement of PHP / ASP / Java for this kind of purpose.
You could use ajax to request the body of each page. But this is only one possibility - there are many. An other approach could be to create you page content using a script language (php, perl) serverside and employ a function there which adds footer, header and anything else to each page.
If you have an idea of Jquery then use click event on menu links to load the page in a div like the following syntax may help you.
$(document).ready(function(){
$("a.menu").click(function(){
$("#bodyContent").load("http://abc.com/your-linked-page.html");
});
});
To load the url dynamically use the following code:
In your menu bar the link looks like:
Home
In your Jquery code:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("a.menu").click(function(){
url = $(this).attr("title"); // here url is just a variable
$("#bodyContent").load(url);
});
});
Step 1: Add Jquery file into your html page.
Step 2: Use the above jquery code and change your menu link to the new what i said here.
Step 3: If you done it correctly, It will work for you.
How about a traditional iframe?
In your menu:
<a target="body" href="URL_to_your_Menu1_page">Menu1</a>
and then further in the document:
<iframe name="body" src="URL_to_homepage"></iframe>
You may use frameset and frames and organize you pages accordingly. So, frames containing menus can always be at display and while displaying contents on click of menu u may set target to frame in which you would like to load the contents.

Best way to move html content from .js file to .html file - completed

I have links such that when the user clicks on them, the DOM is quckly updated using the methods below.
Basically, I just set the innerHTML document to the text and the page updates.
However I would like html code with other html code when applicable. This is the only place in my .js file that has a significant amount of text. How do I move this?
/*
link - quick dom links - would like to find a way to move this into xhtml where it belongs
*/
function o2(a,b)
{
return document.getElementById(a).innerHTML=b;
}
function l1()
{
........
I would recommend putting all of the possible HTML into your HTML file. Assign a unique id to each element and use CSS to hide them all or all but one by default (using 'display: none'). Then your javascript function can simply change CSS based on which html fragment you need to be visible.

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