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Google Docs Apps Script getBackgroundColor(Offset)

Let's say I have some sentences in Google Docs. Just one sentences as an example:
"My house is on fire"
I actually changed the background color so that every verb is red and every noun blue.
Now I want to make a list with all the verbs and another one with the nouns. Unfortunately getBackgroundColor() only seems to work with paragraphs and not with single words.
My idea was, to do something like this (I didn't yet have the time to think about how to do the loop, but that's not the point here anyway):
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var body = doc.getBody();
var paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
var colorVar = paragraphs[0].getText().match(/\w+/).getBackgroundColor(); // The regEx matches the first word. Next I want to get the background color.
Logger.log(colorVar);
}
The error message I get goes something like this:
"The function getBackgroundColor in the text object couldn't be found"
Thx for any help, or hints or comments!

You want to retrieve the text from a paragraph.
You want to retrieve each word and the background color of each word from the retrieved the text.
In this case, the color is the background color which is not getForegroundColor().
You want to achieve this using Google Apps Script.
If my understanding is correct, how about this answer? Please think of this as just one of several possible answers.
At first, the reason of your error is that getBackgroundColor() is the method of Class Text. In your script, getBackgroundColor() is used for the string value. By this, the error occurs.
In this answer, for achieving your goal, each character of the text retrieved from the paragraph is scanned, and each word and the background color of each word can be retrieved.
Sample script:
function myFunction() {
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var body = doc.getBody();
var paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
var textObj = paragraphs[0].editAsText();
var text = textObj.getText();
var res = [];
var temp = "";
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
var c = text[i];
if (c != " ") {
temp += c;
} else {
if (temp != "") res.push({text: temp, color: textObj.getBackgroundColor(i - 1)});
temp = "";
}
}
Logger.log(res) // result
}
When you run the script, the text of 1st paragraph is parsed. And you can see the result with res as an object.
In this sample script, the 1st paragraph is used as a test case. So if you want to retrieve the value from other paragraph, please modify the script.
References:
getBackgroundColor()
getBackgroundColor(offset)
editAsText()
If I misunderstood your question and this was not the direction you want, I apologize.

Here's a script your welcome to take a look at. It highlights text that a user selects...even individual letters. I did it several years ago just to learn more about how documents work.
function highLightCurrentSelection() {
var conclusionStyle = {};
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.BACKGROUND_COLOR]='#ffffff';
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.FOREGROUND_COLOR]='#000000';
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY]='Calibri';
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE]=20;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.BOLD]=false;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT]=DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.LEFT;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT]=DocumentApp.VerticalAlignment.BOTTOM;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING]=1.5;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.HEIGHT]=2;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.LEFT_TO_RIGHT]=true;
var br = '<br />';
var selection = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection();
var s='';
if(selection) {
s+=br + '<strong>Elements in Current Selection</strong>';
var selectedElements = selection.getRangeElements();
for(var i=0;i<selectedElements.length;i++) {
var selElem = selectedElements[i];
var el = selElem.getElement();
var isPartial = selElem.isPartial();
if(isPartial) {
var selStart = selElem.getStartOffset();
var selEnd = selElem.getEndOffsetInclusive();
s+=br + 'isPartial:true selStart=' + selStart + ' selEnd=' + selEnd ;
var bgcolor = (el.asText().getBackgroundColor(selStart)=='#ffff00')?'#ffffff':'#ffff00';
el.asText().setBackgroundColor(selStart, selEnd, bgcolor)
}else {
var selStart = selElem.getStartOffset();
var selEnd = selElem.getEndOffsetInclusive();
s+=br + 'isPartial:false selStart=' + selStart + ' selEnd=' + selEnd ;
var bgcolor = (el.asText().getBackgroundColor()=='#ffff00')?'#ffffff':'#ffff00';
el.asText().setBackgroundColor(bgcolor);
}
var elType=el.getType();
s+=br + 'selectedElement[' + i + '].getType()= ' + elType;
if(elType==DocumentApp.ElementType.TEXT) {
var txt = selElem.getElement().asText().getText().slice(selStart,selEnd+1);
var elattrs = el.getAttributes();
if(elattrs)
{
s+=br + 'Type:<strong>TEXT</strong>';
s+=br + 'Text:<span style="color:#ff0000">' + txt + '</span>';
s+=br + 'Length: ' + txt.length;
s+=br + '<div id="sel' + Number(i) + '" style="display:none;">';
for(var key in elattrs)
{
s+= br + '<strong>' + key + '</strong>' + ' = ' + elattrs[key];
s+=br + '<input type="text" value="' + elattrs[key] + '" id="elattr' + key + Number(i) + '" />';
s+=br + '<input id="elattrbtn' + Number(i) + '" type="button" value="Save Changes" onClick="setSelectedElementAttribute(\'' + key + '\',' + i + ');" />'
}
s+='</div>Show/Hide';
}
}
if(elType==DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH) {
var txt = selElem.getElement().asParagraph().getText();
var elattrs = el.getAttributes();
if(elattrs)
{
s+=br + '<strong>PARAGRAPH Attributes</strong>';
s+=br + 'Text:<span style="color:#ff0000">' + txt + '</span> Text Length= ' + txt.length;
for(var key in elattrs)
{
s+= br + key + ' = ' + elattrs[key];
}
}
}
s+='<hr width="100%"/>';
}
//var finalP=DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().appendParagraph('Total Number of Elements: ' + Number(selectedElements.length));
//finalP.setAttributes(conclusionStyle);
}else {
s+= br + 'No Elements found in current selection';
}
s+='<input type="button" value="Toggle HighLight" onclick="google.script.run.highLightCurrentSelection();"/>';
//s+='<input type="button" value="Exit" onClick="google.script.host.close();" />';
DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('htmlToBody').append(s).setWidth(800).setHeight(450).setTitle('Selected Elements'));
}

Only show objects in array that contain a specific string

I was trying to make something where you can type a string, and the js only shows the objects containing this string. For example, I type Address1 and it searches the address value of each one then shows it (here: it would be Name1). Here is my code https://jsfiddle.net/76e40vqg/11/
HTML
<input>
<div id="output"></div>
JS
var data = [{"image":"http://www.w3schools.com/css/img_fjords.jpg","name":"Name1","address":"Address1","rate":"4.4"},
{"image":"http://shushi168.com/data/out/114/38247214-image.png","name":"Name2","address":"Address2","rate":"3.3"},
{"image":"http://www.menucool.com/slider/jsImgSlider/images/image-slider-2.jpg","name":"Name3","address":"Address3","rate":"3.3"}
];
var restoName = [], restoAddress = [], restoRate = [], restoImage= [];
for(i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
restoName.push(data[i].name);
restoAddress.push(data[i].address);
restoRate.push(data[i].rate);
restoImage.push(data[i].image);
}
for(i = 0; i < restoName.length; i++){
document.getElementById('output').innerHTML += "Image : <a href='" + restoImage[i] + "'><div class='thumb' style='background-image:" + 'url("' + restoImage[i] + '");' + "'></div></a><br>" + "Name : " + restoName[i] + "<br>" + "Address : " + restoAddress[i] + "<br>" + "Rate : " + restoRate[i] + "<br>" + i + "<br><hr>";
}
I really tried many things but nothing is working, this is why I am asking here...

Don't store the details as separate arrays. Instead, use a structure similar to the data object returned.
for(i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
if (data[i].address.indexOf(searchedAddress) !== -1) { // Get searchedAddress from user
document.getElementById("output").innerHTML += data[i].name;
}
}
Edits on your JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/76e40vqg/17/
Cheers!

Here is a working solution :
var data = [{"image":"http://www.w3schools.com/css/img_fjords.jpg","name":"Name1","address":"Address1","rate":"4.4"},
{"image":"http://shushi168.com/data/out/114/38247214-image.png","name":"Name2","address":"Address2","rate":"3.3"},
{"image":"http://www.menucool.com/slider/jsImgSlider/images/image-slider-2.jpg","name":"Name3","address":"Address3","rate":"3.3"}
];
document.getElementById('search').onkeyup = search;
var output = document.getElementById('output');
function search(event) {
var value = event.target.value;
output.innerHTML = '';
data.forEach(function(item) {
var found = false;
Object.keys(item).forEach(function(val) {
if(item[val].indexOf(value) > -1) found = true;
});
if(found) {
// ouput your data
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = item.name
output.appendChild(div);
}
});
return true;
}
<input type="search" id="search" />
<div id="output"></div>

Setting text input as a variable in Javascript

I'm trying to use my text input as a string variable and use that variable as a part of a URL to pull up JSON data but I can't seem to get it to work properly.
I don't know if I'm setting the variables incorrectly but any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
$(document).ready(function() {
var p = document.querySelector('p');
var input = document.getElementById('search').value;
$("#go").click(function() {
if (input === '') {
p.style.backgroundColor = 'transparent';
p.classList.add = 'hide';
p.innerHTML = '';
} else {
$.getJSON("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&datatype=json&limit=5&search=" + input + "&callback=?", function(data) {
p.innerHTML = "<br> Click the links below";
p.classList.remove('hide');
var i = 0
for (i; i < 5; i++){
if (data[3][i] !== undefined){
p.innerHTML += '<h2> <a href ="' + data[3][i] + '" target = "_blank">' + data[1][i] + '<br>' + '<h3>' + data[2][i] + '</h3>' + '</h2>'
} else {
p.innerHTML = ' <h2> No matching result </h2>';
}
}
});
}
});
});

At the time you assign the variable value, it is empty because it is run when the site is loaded and there is probably no text in the search box yet. You want the content at the time #go is clicked, so just assign it inside the click event handler:
$(document).ready(function() {
var p = document.querySelector('p');
// the text field value is empty at this point
$("#go").click(function() {
// this is run when user clicks #go
var input = document.getElementById('search').value;
if (input === '') {
p.style.backgroundColor = 'transparent';
p.classList.add = 'hide';
p.innerHTML = '';
}
else {
// encode user input
$.getJSON("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&datatype=json&limit=5&search=" + encodeURIComponent(input) + "&callback=?", function(data) {
p.innerHTML = "<br> Click the links below";
p.classList.remove('hide');
var i = 0
for (i; i < 5; i++){
if (data[3][i] !== undefined){
p.innerHTML += '<h2> <a href ="' + data[3][i] + '" target = "_blank">' + data[1][i] + '<br>' + '<h3>' + data[2][i] + '</h3>' + '</h2>'
}
else {
p.innerHTML = ' <h2> No matching result </h2>';
}
}
});
}
});
});
Additionally, you should always encode user input if you include it in a URI. Otherwise you'll experience unexpected behaviour when using any non alphanumerical character (including whitespace) in the search box. For a more detailed explanation of how and why, see the documentation.

Jquery not appending values correctly

I have a fixed set of input fields on page load. I have checkboxes with values displayed and when someone checks the checkbox the values are added to the input field. If all the input fields are filled, a new one is created. My problem is that, the checkbox values are inserted correctly in existing input fields and if the value exceeds,a new input field is created but values are not inserted immediately when the input field is created.Only on the next click is the values inserted in the newly created input field. Here's the code
<script>
function fillin(entire,name,id,key) {
if (entire.checked == true) {
var split_info = new Array();
split_info = name.split(":");
var div = $("#Inputfields"+id);
var till = (div.children("input").length)/4;
var current_count = 0;
for (var j=0;j<till;j++) {
if (document.getElementById("insertname_"+j+"_"+id).value == "" && document.getElementById("insertnumber_"+j+"_"+id).value == "") {
document.getElementById("insertname_"+j+"_"+id).value = split_info[0];
document.getElementById("insertnumber_"+j+"_"+id).value = split_info[1];
break;
} else
current_count = current_count+1;
if (current_count == till) {
var x= addnew(id);
x =x+1;
$("#Inputfields"+id).find("#insertname_"+x+"_"+id).value = split_info[0];
alert($("#Inputfields"+id).find("#insertname_"+x+"_"+id).value);
document.getElementById("insertname_"+x+"_"+id).text = split_info[0];
//alert(document.getElementById("insertname_"+x+"_"+id).value);
//document.getElementById("insertnumber_"+x+"_"+id).value = split_info[1];
}
}
} else {
}
}
</script>
<script>
function addnew(n) {
//var id = $(this).attr("id");
var div = $("#Inputfields"+n);
var howManyInputs = (div.children("input").length)/4;
alert(howManyInputs);
var val = $("div").data("addedCount");
var a = '<input type="search" id="insertinstitute_'+(howManyInputs)+'_'+n+'" placeholder="Institute" class="span3">';
var b = '<input type="search" id="insertname_'+(howManyInputs)+'_'+n+'" placeholder="name" class="span3">';
var c = '<input type="search" name="" id="insertnumber_'+(howManyInputs)+'_'+n+'" placeholder="number" class="span3">';
var d = '<input type="search" name="" id="insertarea_'+(howManyInputs)+'_'+n+'" placeholder="area" class="span3">';
var fin = a+b+d+c;
$(fin).appendTo(div);
div.data("addedCount", div.data("addedCount") + 1);
return howManyInputs;
}
</script>
UPDATED: Thank you all. I was able to find the bug. The culprit was x =x+1;. It should have been x

The problem is probably here:
document.getElementById("insertname_"+x+"_"+id).text
There's no text property in elements. There's textContent (not in IE8-), innerText (in IE) and innerHTML. There's the text method in jQuery, though. So you can either do:
document.getElementById("insertname_"+x+"_"+id).innerHTML = ...
or
$("#insertname_"+x+"_"+id).text(...);
Also, these lines:
$("#Inputfields"+id).find("#insertname_"+x+"_"+id).value = split_info[0];
alert($("#Inputfields"+id).find("#insertname_"+x+"_"+id).value);
.value there should be replaced with .val(), because those are jQuery objects.

I have reworked a lot of your code for a lot of reasons. Compare the two.
function fillin(entire, name, id, key) {
if (entire.checked) {
var split_info = [];
split_info = name.split(":");
var div = $("#Inputfields" + id);
var till = (div.children("input").length) / 4;
var current_count = 0;
var j = 0;
for (j = 0; j < till; j++) {
var myj = j + "_" + id;
if ($("#insertname_" + myj).val() === "" && $("#insertnumber_" + myj).val() === "") {
$("#insertname_" + myj).val(split_info[0]);
$("#insertnumber_" + myj).val(split_info[1]);
break;
} else {
current_count = current_count + 1;
}
if (current_count === till) {
var x = addnew(id) + 1;
div.find("#insertname_" + x + "_" + id).val(split_info[0]);
alert(div.find("#insertname_" + x + "_" + id).val());
$("#insertname_" + x + "_" + id).val(split_info[0]);
}
}
}
}
function addnew(n) {
var div = $("#Inputfields" + n);
var howManyInputs = (div.children("input").length) / 4;
alert(howManyInputs);
var myi = (howManyInputs) + '_' + n + '"';
var val = div.data("addedCount");
var a = '<input type="search" id="insertinstitute_' + myi + ' placeholder="Institute" class="span3">';
var b = '<input type="search" id="insertname_' + myi + ' placeholder="name" class="span3">';
var c = '<input type="search" name="" id="insertnumber_' + myi + ' placeholder="number" class="span3">';
var d = '<input type="search" name="" id="insertarea_' + myi + ' placeholder="area" class="span3">';
var fin = a + b + d + c;
$(fin).appendTo(div);
div.data("addedCount", val + 1);
return howManyInputs;
}

get text from attribute and format it

I have a div elements with data-seat and data-row property:
<div class='selected' data-seat='1' data-row='1'></div>
<div class='selected' data-seat='2' data-row='1'></div>
<div class='selected' data-seat='3' data-row='1'></div>
<div class='selected' data-seat='1' data-row='2'></div>
<div class='selected' data-seat='2' data-row='2'></div>
I want print friendly message for selected seats:
var selectedPlaceTextFormated ='';
$(".selected").each(function () {
var selectedPlace = $(this);
selectedPlaceTextFormated += "Row " + selectedPlace.attr("data-row") + " (seat " + selectedPlace.attr("data-seat") + ")\n";
});
alert(selectedPlaceTextFormated);
This code works well and shows the following:
Row 1 (seat 1)
Row 1 (seat 2)
Row 1 (seat 3)
Row 2 (seat 1)
Row 2 (seat 2)
But, I want group seats by row, i.e I want the following:
Row 1(seats: 1,2,3)
Row 2(seats: 1,2)
also, order by row number. How can I do this?
Thanks. DEMO

Here is the code
var selectedPlaceTextFormated ='';
var row_array = [];
$(".selected").each(function () {
var selectedPlace = $(this);
if (!row_array[selectedPlace.attr("data-row")]){
row_array[selectedPlace.attr("data-row")] = selectedPlace.attr("data-seat");
}
else row_array[selectedPlace.attr("data-row")] += ','+selectedPlace.attr("data-seat");
});
for (row in row_array){
alert("Row "+ row +"(seat " + row_array[row] + ")\n" );
}
And here the link to the working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3gVHg/

First of all, jQuery is kind enough to automatically grab data- attributes into its data expando object, that means, you can access those data via:
jQueryObject.data('seat');
for instance.
Your actual question could get solved like
var $selected = $('.selected'),
availableRows = [ ],
selectedPlaceTextFormated = '',
currentRow,
currentSeats;
$selected.each(function(_, node) {
if( availableRows.indexOf( currentRow = $(node).data('row') ) === -1 ) {
availableRows.push( currentRow );
}
});
availableRows.forEach(function( row ) {
selectedPlaceTextFormated += 'Row ' + row + '(';
currentSeats = $selected.filter('[data-row=' + row + ']').map(function(_, node) {
return $(this).data('seat');
}).get();
selectedPlaceTextFormated += currentSeats.join(',') + ')\n';
});
jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gJFJW/3/

You need to use another variable to store the row, and format accordingly.
var selectedPlaceTextFormated ='';
var prevRow = 0;
$(".selected").each(function () {
var selectedPlace = $(this);
var row = selectedPlace.attr("data-row");
var seat = selectedPlace.attr("data-seat");
if(prevRow == row){
selectedPlaceTextFormated += "," + seat;
}
else{
if(selectedPlaceTextFormated != ''){
selectedPlaceTextFormated += ')\n';
}
selectedPlaceTextFormated += "Row " + row + " (seat " + seat;
prevRow = row;
}
});
selectedPlaceTextFormated += ')\n';
alert(selectedPlaceTextFormated);
Check http://jsfiddle.net/nsjithin/R8HHC/

This can be achieved with a few slight modifications to your existing code to use arrays; these arrays are then used to build a string:
var selectedPlaceTextFormated = [];
var textFormatted = '';
$(".selected").each(function(i) {
var selectedPlace = $(this);
var arr = [];
selectedPlaceTextFormated[selectedPlace.attr("data-row")] += "," + selectedPlace.attr("data-seat");
});
selectedPlaceTextFormated.shift();
for (var i = 0; i < selectedPlaceTextFormated.length; i++) {
var arr2 = selectedPlaceTextFormated[i].split(",");
arr2.shift();
textFormatted += "Row " + (i + 1) + " seats: (" + arr2.join(",") + ")\n";
}
alert(textFormatted);
​
Demo

I'd just do this:
var text = [];
$(".selected").each(function () {
var a = parseInt($(this).data('row'), 10),
b = $(this).data('seat');
text[a] = ((text[a])?text[a]+', ':'')+b;
});
var selectedPlaceTextFormated ='';
$.each(text, function(index, elem) {
if (!this.Window) selectedPlaceTextFormated += "Row " + index + " (seat " + elem + ")\n";
});
alert(selectedPlaceTextFormated);
FIDDLE