The body of my HTML looks like this:
<body>
<form action='http://www.example.com' method='GET'>
<input type='text' id="text_input"/>
</form>
</body>
After entering a couple values into the field and returning to the site, a user is given autocompletion suggestion from the browser. When you select one, how can I have the form automatically submit?
In this question, they show something similar in jQuery:
$("#text_input").autocomplete({
source: ['apple', 'banana'],
minLength: 2,
select: function(event, ui) {
$("#text_input").val(ui.item.value);
$("#text_input").closest('form').submit(); }
});
However, this uses custom autocompletion suggestions, and not the browsers saved results.
Browser auto-completion isn't generally detectable using JS, from the scripts perspective, it will just appear that the user entered some data.
I think the best thing to do would be re-consider your approach to the problem, however if you defiantly want to do it this way:
The closest thing I can think of to what you're after would be to listen for key presses and changes, and a change that occurs with no key presses can be considered an auto-completion.
e.g.
$(document).ready(function(){
var keyPressed = false;
$("#test").on("keydown", function(){
keyPressed = true;
});
$("#test").on("change", function(){
if(!keyPressed){
alert("Submit");
}
});
});
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/o60nf4s6/
Issues:
Also triggered by pasting using the right click context menu
change event is only fired after the input field loses focus
Any keypress in the input will stop it from submitting, even if auto complete us used. This will only work if the whole input is filled from the browser options.
Related
My contact form is not working correctly. When I enter wrong data, all is working as it should, but when data is correct the input fields are not showing. I need to click them with mouse and then they start showing.
This is what I have tried so far:
$('#submit_btn').click(function() {
if($('#register').find('.wpcf7-mail-sent-ok').length > 0){
$('#name-152').val('Full Name').show('slow');
$('#email-152').val('Email').show('slow');
$('#phone-152').val('Phone Number').show('slow');
}
});
please note that class .wpcf7-mail-sent-okappears only when form is filled submitted and correctly. What confuses me the most is that .find cannot find the descendant .wpcf7-mail-sent-ok, and it is one of the descendants.. I have tested it with console.log(); and alert();
This is Wordpress plugin - Contact Form 7
Any ideas?
The "Contact Form 7" plug-in acts on the submission event to do its magic, like manipulating styles and replacing the standard form submission behaviour by an AJAX-style submission.
As this might happen after the button's click event, and probably on the form's submit event, your code runs too soon.
One way to get around this, is to delay the execution of your code with setTimeout:
$('#submit_btn').click(function() {
setTimeout(function () {
if ($('#register').find('.wpcf7-mail-sent-ok').length) {
$('#name-152').val('Full Name').show('slow');
$('#email-152').val('Email').show('slow');
$('#phone-152').val('Phone Number').show('slow');
}
}, 100);
});
I've been working on trying to trigger an onchange listener with java script in Mozilla Firefox. I've found a lot on Stack Overflow posted about this, but nothing seems to be working for my unique case.
I've created this HTML with a onchange listener from an onchange event using this helpful post (JavaScript OnChange Listener position in HTML markup). Here's my code:
<HTML>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload= function () {
if(window.addEventListener) {
document.getElementsByClassName('search-box')[0].addEventListener('change', loadXMLDoc, false);
} else if (window.attachEvent){
document.getElementsByClassName('search-box')[0].attachEvent("onchange", loadXMLDoc);
}
function loadXMLDoc(){
alert('It worked');
}
}
function addTextCallListener() {
var searchBox = document.getElementsByClassName("search-box")[0];
searchBox.value = "Hello";
}
</script>
</head>
<BODY>
<input type="text" class="search-box" placeholder="Player Search">
<br \>
<button type="button" onclick="addTextCallListener()">Click Me!</button>
</BODY>
</HTML>
I also saved it as this jsfiddle (for some reason I had to keep it all together for it to work, I couldn't break it up into js and html).
https://jsfiddle.net/josephfedor42/crogL0zd/1/
If you play with this jsfiddle you can see that entering text and pressing enter will trigger the listener and the pop up with the message “It worked” will appear.
But if the button “Click Me!” is pressed it only changes the value of the text box, and the onchange listener is not called.
I realize I could easily add an onchange event to this button. But I want to to trigger the listener by programatically/ superficially using javascript in my addTextCallListener() function.
I've tried the simple stuff, like calling
searchBox.onchange();
searchBox.focus();
searchBox.click();
And a combination of these to add and remove the focus. But it doesn't seem to work. I've found quite a few posts on triggering an onchange event, but nothing that works in Firefox.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for that link of a possible duplicated question. I had checked out that link before.
But I gave it a try again. I saved the jsfiddle from them both and neither one work.
My implementation of Dorian's answer
https://jsfiddle.net/josephfedor42/zaakd3dj/
My implementation of Alsciende's answer
https://jsfiddle.net/josephfedor42/xhs6L6u2/
emphasize mine
According to the mdn page about the change event,
The change event is fired for <input>, <select>, and <textarea>
elements when a change to the element's value is committed by the
user.
and to whatwg specs :
When the input and change events apply (which is the case for all
input controls other than buttons and those with the type attribute in
the Hidden state), the events are fired to indicate that the user has
interacted with the control.
Therefore, setting the value of an input is not an action "committed by the user" nor a sign that "the user has interacted with the control", since it was made by the code.
So, even if the specifications for this event are kind of unclear, the event should not fire when you change its value by code.
Something like this should work:
function addTextCallListener() {
var searchBox = document.getElementsByClassName("search-box")[0];
searchBox.value = "Hello";
//fire the event
if (document.createEvent) {
searchBox.dispatchEvent('change');
} else {
searchBox.fireEvent("onchange");
}
}
Here is the code I needed to add to my function addTextCallListener:
var evObj = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents');
evObj.initEvent( 'change', true, true );
searchBox.dispatchEvent(evObj);
I updated the jsfiddle. The working code is here https://jsfiddle.net/josephfedor42/crogL0zd/7/
Replace onchange with change in this part:
document.getElementsByClassName('search-box')[0].attachEvent("onchange", loadXMLDoc);
I'm working on an issue here that only occurs in IE8/9
We have 2 search boxes. One in the header that uses jQuery's Autocomplete, and the other which is specifically for an archiving feature we have on certain pages. What should happen is if the Autocomplete searchbox is in focus and we hit Enter after typing something in, it searches with that value. Easy enough.
However, in IE8/9, no matter which text box has focus, the Enter key will trigger that event.
Here's what we've got:
jQuery(".autocomplete").keydown(function(event) {
if (jQuery(".autocomplete").is(":focus")){
var query;
if (event.which === 13) {
event.preventDefault();
query = this.value;
return window.location.href = "/search?q=" + query;
}
}
});
I've also tried .keypress() and it yields the same result. We're using jQuery 2.0.0
Our team is relatively new to jQuery, so we're probably just doing this wrong.
It should only be firing on searchboxes with the .autocomplete class, and only if that particular box has focus.
Thanks!
I apologize, apparently a different team had added a .js file that was interfering with the operation of this jquery script in our file.
We have a lot of inputs in a document.
We want to open a dialog that generates text and puts that in the currently focused input.
The problem is that, when I click a button or anything else to open the dialog that input loses focus. I can't determine which input has to get the generated text.
$("#button").click(function(){
// something should goes here to prevent stealing inputs focus
});
Is there any solution to prevent stealing focus by that special button?
You could not use a form button and just use say a <span> make it behave like a button?
UPDATE:
You could use something like
$('span').hover(function(){
focused_element = $("*:focus").get(0);
});
$('span').click(function(){
focused_element.focus();
});
Check out my fiddle
Does your field have a unique ID? If it does, use that ID to set the focus back to the field when the dialog's save/close button is clicked.
Don't worry about having the focus stolen as much as resetting it once you are done.
My solution would be to handle every focus and save it in focusEle:
$(function () {
var focusEle;
$('*').focus(function () {
focusEle = this;
});
$('button').click(function (e) {
console.log(focusEle);
var c = confirm('Love the cat :3?');
$(focusEle).focus();
});
});
With HTML as:
<input type="text">
<button>Press me!</button>
Example is working: http://jsfiddle.net/76uv7/
Depending on #ggzone idea
There is only one text field on a HTML form. Users input some text, press Enter, submit the form, and the form is reloaded. The main use is barcode reading. I use the following code to set the focus to the text field:
<script language="javascript">
<!--
document.getElementById("#{id}").focus()
//-->
</script>
It works most of the time (if nobody touches the screen/mouse/keyboard).
However, when the user click somewhere outside the field within the browser window (the white empty space), the cursor is gone. One a single field HTML form, how can I prevent the cursor from getting lost? Or, how to re-focus the cursor inside the field after the cursor is lost? thx!
Darin's answer is right, but doesn't work in Firefox. If you want to steal focus back in Firefox too, you have to delay it until after the event:
<input onblur="var that= this; setTimeout(function() { that.focus(); }, 0);">
Or, better, assigned from JavaScript:
<script type="text/javascript">
var element= document.getElementById('foo');
element.focus();
element.onblur= function() {
setTimeout(function() {
element.focus();
}, 0);
};
</script>
But, I would strongly advise you not to do this. Clicking outside a text box to remove focus from that text box is perfectly normal browser behaviour, which can be of legitimate use (eg. to set search point for ctrl-F, or start a drag-selection, etc). There's very unlikely to be a good reason to mess with this expected behaviour.
<input type="text" name="barcode" onblur="this.focus();" />
You can hook the blur event and refocus the field again. There are very few use cases for doing this, but it sounds like yours may be one of them. Note that you'll probably have to schedule the re-focus via setTimeout or similar, you won't be able to do it within the blur handler itself.
When doing this without affecting the markup, this is easiest if you use a library like Prototype, jQuery, Closure, etc., but you can do it without them (of course), you just have to handle browser differences yourself. For instance, using Prototype:
document.observe("dom:loaded", function() {
var elm = $('thingy');
elm.focus();
elm.observe('blur', function() {
refocus.defer(elm);
});
function refocus(elm) {
elm.focus();
}
});
If you don't mind affecting the markup, you can use the onblur attribute. For instance, this works on IE, Firefox, and Chrome at least (probably others):
HTML:
<input type='text' id='thingy' onblur="refocus(this);">
Script:
function refocus(elm) {
setTimeout(go, 0);
function go() {
elm.focus();
}
}