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How to access an HTML element that is dynamically filled with values?

I've read lots of stackoverflow questions with no luck. My problem is, I have an HTML page in which I have
<select id="myid"></select>
and there, there's a Firebase command that retrieves names of values i need, and put it inside the <option> like HERE:
reference.on("child_added", function (childSnapshot){
var key = childSnapshot.key;
var opt = document.createElement('option');
opt.textContent = key;
document.getElementById('myid').appendChild(opt);
});
Now, i need to somehow access these values, that by the way are correctly appearing in both HTML and my site, however:
var val = document.getElementById('myid').value;
console.log(val);
It always returns blank in console. I don't know how else can I access it. Whenever I type those values in <option> by myself in HTML, everything works as it should and console returns the names that are in database.
#edit: as far as i tried to crack it, it seems to do with the fact that javascript cannot access elements, that for javascript itself aren't yet loaded, but i tried doing window.onload and other similar ones and they don't help.

You can use AngularJS, with directive $scope.watch, i will write a simple example of how to use and the link of documentation, if you have any question talk back to me!
function MyController($scope) {
$scope.myVar = 1;
$scope.$watch('myVar', function() {
alert('hey, myVar has changed!');
});
$scope.buttonClicked = function() {
$scope.myVar = 2; // This will trigger $watch expression to kick in
};
}
AngularJS Documentation
I hope help with this :)

CQ5 AEM: how to get a component by name within a dialog using javascript

I know this will probably a simple question, but I'm new to CQ5 and AEM in general.
I have a cq:Widget node which is a simple textfield.
<rowtitlevalue
jcr:primaryType="cq:Widget"
fieldLabel="Row Title Value"
name="./rowtitlevalue"
xtype="textfield"
disabled="true"/>
Now at the moment within my JavaScript, I'm currently accessing it via
var textfield = panel.findByType('textfield')[1];
which works fine (there's another textfield before this one, hence the 1 in the array.
MY QUESTION:
how do I look for this field using it's NAME attribute within my javascript.
Any help would be appreciated.
Also, I'm using this object to run the following:
if (show != undefined) {
textfield.enable();
textfield.show();
}
else if (show == undefined) {
textfield.disable();
textfield.hide();
}
The JavaScript is located within the Component Based ClientLibs.
And this is the Listener that I have under the checkbox that defines the value of SHOW within the javascript (which is working fine).
<listeners
jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
loadcontent="function(field,rec,path){Ejst.toggleRowTitle(field);}"
selectionchanged="function(field,value){Ejst.toggleRowTitle(field);}"/>
Please let me know if you see any problems with this.
Appreciate it in advance

The CQ.Dialog API defines the getField( String name) method which returns a field with the given name. In case more than one field with the same name exists, it returns an array of those fields.
Thus finding parent of xtype dialog instead of panel as shown below would solve this.
Ejst.toggleRowTitle = function(checkbox) {
var dlg = checkbox.findParentByType('dialog');
var rowTitleField = dlg.getField('./rowtitlevalue');
// perform required operation on rowTitleField
}

i did something like that a few days ago and my solution was to make a js file on the same level of the component and with the same name of the component with the information that i need.
Something like this:
The file will be called rowtitlevalue.js and the content would be:
"use strict";
use(function() {
var data = {};
data.rowtitlevalueData = properties.get("rowtitlevalue");
//more properties if needed...
return {
data: data
}
});
then where i need to use it in javascript, i need the following tags:
<sly data-sly-use.data="rowtitlevalue.js">
<script type="text/javascript">
var myVariable = ${data.rowtitlevalueData};
</script>
</sly>

prevent javascript from breaking when xml has an empty node value

I have example the following xml:
<LOCAL_AUTHORITY>
<NAME>Derby</NAME>
<REGION></REGION>
<IRD>22%</IRD>
<LOCAL_AUTHORITY>
I have the following javascript:
localAuthorities=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("LOCAL_AUTHORITY");
alert(localAuthorities[0].getElementsByTagName("REGION")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
alert('This get triggered so javascript is not broken');
My question is that the javascript breaks unless you give region a value in the xml. Kind reagrds to any responders.. how do i prevent it from breaking?

You need to make sure there is something there before you read it. basic idea:
var nodes = localAuthorities[0].getElementsByTagName("REGION")[0].childNodes;
var value = nodes.length===1 ? nodes[0].nodeValue : "";
alert(value);

You can do :
localAuthorities=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("LOCAL_AUTHORITY");
// validate if there is region or not
if (localAuthorities[0].getElementsByTagName("REGION")[0].val()){
alert(localAuthorities[0].getElementsByTagName("REGION")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
alert('This get triggered so javascript is not broken');
}

Returning a value to another function

I am new to jQuery. I have created a form where I hide some fields. I have created a function on the click of a button field. Here in this function definition I unhide the hidden fields one being my text field and another a button. I code that I use is:
finishOrder: function() {
document.getElementById("create-pwd").style.display = "block"
document.getElementById("finish-ok").style.display = "block" // this is my another button
// do further processing
},
Now on the click of another button (please see the comment "this is my another button") I call another function like this:
FinishcheckPassword: function() {
var pas = document.getElementById("pos-password")
var user = new db.web.Model("res.users").get_func("read")(this.session.uid, ['password']).pipe(function(result) {
if(pas.value == result.password){
return true
});
},
After the if condition returns true value, I want to the control to be transferred to the first function where I can do further processing. Is it possible, if yes how can this be achieved? Any help will be appreciated.

Sure, something like this:
$('#finish-ok').click(function(){
if(FinishcheckPassword()){
finishOrder();
}
}
Of course, this is probably not exactly the right code for you. The fact that you are assigning all your functions with : rather than = suggests that they are inside of some larger object. Therefore, they'd have to be called like myObject.finishOrder(). But the general approach of what I wrote above will work.
As a couple side notes, you have tagged the question with jQuery and refer to it in your post, but there isn't actually a single line of jQuery in your code.

Variable not updating in script string, yet it updates

Very confused here.
I have a search box which reads a list of school names from my database. When I select a school, the id (from the db) gets put in a hidden textbox.
I also have a search box which reads a list of courses from my database. However, I made the query so that it only reads the courses from the selected school.
It does that, in theory.
I was planning to pass the school id, which I grab from the hidden box, to the search script which in turn passes it to my database query. However, the variable I put my school id in doesn't seem to be updating.. yet it does. Let me explain.
I come on the page. The school for my test account has id 1. The id number in my hidden box is indeed 1. I search for a school which I know has some courses assigned to it: the id number in the box changes to 3.
I have a JS variable called school_id which I declared outside of my $(document).ready. I assume that means it's global (that's what I got taught even though SO told me once it isn't really the correct way to do this. Still have to look into that). I wrote a function which updates this variable when the school search box loses focus:
$("#school").blur(function() {
school_id = $("#school_id").val();
});
A quick javascript:alert(school_id); in my browser bar also shows the updated variable: it is now 3 instead of 1.
Onto the search script part of my page (excerpt of the script):
script:"/profiel/search_richting?json=true&limit=6&id=" + school_id + "&"
As you can see, I pass the school_id variable to the script here. However, what seems to be happening is that it always passes '1', the default variable when the page loads. It simply ignores the updated variable. Does this string get parsed when the page loads? In other words, as soon as the page loads, does it actually say &id=1? That's the only idea I can come up with why it would always pass '1'.
Is there a way to make this variable update in my script string? Or what would be the best way to solve this? I'm probably missing out on something very simple here again, as usual. Thanks a lot.
EDIT
Updated per request. I added a function getTheString as was suggest and I use the value of this function to get the URL. Still doesn't work though, it still seems to be concatenating before I get a chance to update the var. HOWEVER, with this code, my ajax log says id:[object HTMLInputElement], instead of id:1. Not sure what that means.
<script type="text/javascript">
var school_id;
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#school").blur(function() {
school_id = $("#school_id").val();
});
// zoekfunctie
var scholen = {
script:"/profiel/search_school?json=true&limit=6&",
varname:"input",
json:true,
shownoresults:false,
maxresults:6,
callback: function (obj) { document.getElementById('school_id').value = obj.id; }
};
var as_json = new bsn.AutoSuggest('school', scholen);
var richtingen = {
script: getTheString(),
varname:"input",
json:true,
shownoresults:true,
maxresults:6
};
var as_json2 = new bsn.AutoSuggest('studierichting', richtingen);
});
function getTheString() {
return "/profiel/search_richting?json=true&limit=6&id=" + school_id + "&";
}
</script>

This is because the URL is static, it is not updated as the ID changes.
You should update the URL as part of the code you wrote to get the ID:
$("#school").blur(function() {
school_id = $("#school_id").val();
// update URL here ...
});

Aren't you concatenating script:"/profiel/search_richting?json=true&limit=6&id=" + school_id + "&" before the event is fired and the var updated?

Okay. So the problem was my third party plug-in instead of the code I wrote. I fixed this by editing the code of the autoSuggest plugin so it now includes my id field in the AJAX request.
var url = this.oP.script+this.oP.varname+"="+encodeURIComponent(this.sInp)+"&id="+ $("#school_id").val();
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me out!