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How to loop through HTML elements and populate a Json-object?

I'm looping through all the html tags in an html-file, checking if those tags match conditions, and trying to compose a JSON-object of a following schema:
[
{ title: 'abc', date: '10.10.10', body: ' P tags here', href: '' },
{ title: 'abc', date: '10.10.10', body: ' P tags here', href: '' },
{ title: 'abc', date: '10.10.10', body: ' P tags here', href: '' }
]
But I'd like to create the new entry only for elements, classed "header", all the other elements have to be added to earlier created entry. How do I achieve that?
Current code:
$('*').each((index, element) => {
if ( $(element).hasClass( "header" ) ) {
jsonObject.push({
title: $(element).text()
});
};
if( $(element).hasClass( "date" )) {
jsonObject.push({
date: $(element).text()
});
}
//links.push($(element))
});
console.log(jsonObject)
Result is:
{
title: 'TestA'
},
{ date: '10.10.10' },
{
title: 'TestB'
},
{ date: '10.10.11' }
I'd like it to be at this stage something like:
{
title: 'TestA'
,
date: '10.10.10' },
{
title: 'TestB'
,
date: '10.10.11' }
UPD:
Here's the example of HTML file:
<h1 class="header">H1_Header</h1>
<h2 class="date">Date</h2>
<p>A.</p>
<p>B.</p>
<p>С.</p>
<p>D.</p>
<a class="source">http://</a>
<h1 class="header">H1_Header2</h1>
<h2 class="date">Date2</h2>
<p>A2.</p>
<p>B2.</p>
<p>С2.</p>
<p>D2.</p>
<a class="source">http://2</a>
Thank you for your time!

Based on your example Html, it appears everything you are trying to collect is in a linear order, so you get a title, date, body and link then a new header with the associated items you want to collect, since this appears to not have the complication of having things being ordered in a non-linear fasion, you could do something like the following:
let jsonObject = null;
let newObject = false;
let appendParagraph = false;
let jObjects = [];
$('*').each((index, element) => {
if ($(element).hasClass("header")) {
//If newObject is true, push object into array
if(newObject)
jObjects.push(jsonObject);
//Reset the json object variable to an empty object
jsonObject = {};
//Reset the paragraph append boolean
appendParagraph = false;
//Set the header property
jsonObject.header = $(element).text();
//Set the boolean so on the next encounter of header tag the jsobObject is pushed into the array
newObject = true;
};
if( $(element).hasClass( "date" )) {
jsonObject.date = $(element).text();
}
if( $(element).prop("tagName") === "P") {
//If you are storing paragraph as one string value
//Otherwise switch the body var to an array and push instead of append
if(!appendParagraph){ //Use boolean to know if this is the first p element of object
jsonObject.body = $(element).text();
appendParagraph = true; //Set boolean to true to append on next p and subsequent p elements
} else {
jsonObject.body += (", " + $(element).text()); //append to the body
}
}
//Add the href property
if( $(element).hasClass("source")) {
//edit to do what you wanted here, based on your comment:
jsonObject.link = $(element).next().html();
//jsonObject.href= $(element).attr('href');
}
});
//Push final object into array
jObjects.push(jsonObject);
console.log(jObjects);
Here is a jsfiddle for this: https://jsfiddle.net/Lyojx85e/
I can't get the text of the anchor tags on the fiddle (I believe because nested anchor tags are not valid and will be parsed as seperate anchor tags by the browser), but the code provided should work in a real world example. If .text() doesn't work you can switch it to .html() on the link, I was confused on what you are trying to get on this one, so I updated the answer to get the href attribute of the link as it appears that is what you want. The thing is that the anchor with the class doesn't have an href attribute, so I'll leave it to you to fix that part for yourself, but this answer should give you what you need.

$('*').each((index, element) => {
var obj = {};
if ( $(element).hasClass( "header" ) ) {
obj.title = $(element).text();
};
if( $(element).hasClass( "date" )) {
obj.date = $(element).text()
}
jsonObject.push(obj);
});

I don't know about jQuery, but with JavaScript you can do with something like this.
const arr = [];
document.querySelectorAll("li").forEach((elem) => {
const obj = {};
const title = elem.querySelector("h2");
const date = elem.querySelector("date");
if (title) obj["title"] = title.textContent;
if (date) obj["date"] = date.textContent;
arr.push(obj);
});
console.log(arr);
<ul>
<li>
<h2>A</h2>
<date>1</date>
</li>
<li>
<h2>B</h2>
</li>
<li>
<date>3</date>
</li>
</ul>

Always use map for things like this. This should look something like:
let objects = $('.header').get().map(el => {
return {
date: $(el).attr('date'),
title: $(el).attr('title'),
}
})

How to get id of selected row in autocomplete JQuery UI

I would like to get the row id of selected item in my autocomplete function, I get the values of my source from a php variable.
<script>
$(function() {
var availableTags = [ <? php echo($toto); ?> ];
$("#foo").autocomplete({
source: availableTags
});
});
</script>
I already tried this function but it does not seem to work. In fact, when I add it to my script, my autocomplete won't work anymore.
<script>
$(function () {
var availableTags = [ <? php echo($ListeNomsFormateeFinale); ?> ];
$("#nomClient").autocomplete({
source: availableTags
select: function (event, ui) {
$("#textfield1").val(ui.item.label); // display the selected text
$("#textfield2").val(ui.item.value); // display selected id
return false;
}
});
});
</script>
What am I doing wrong here? and is there a quick fix to this problem?
Edit:
I actualy needed to add a comma after source: availableTags, I also deleted the return false. but it dosen't return the id of the selected row, it actually writes the same value in the two textfields textfield1 and textfield2

From : Api Jquery UI - Autocomplete - option source
Array: An array can be used for local data. There are two supported formats:
An array of strings: [ "Choice1", "Choice2" ]
An array of objects with label and value properties: [ { label: "Choice1", value: "value1" }, ... ]
The label property is displayed in the suggestion menu. The value will be inserted into the input element when a user selects an item. If just one property is specified, it will be used for both, e.g., if you provide only value properties, the value will also be used as the label.
The second point (2.) give a way to store the "id" (or something else) of the selected object. By example :
var yourSource = [ { label: "Choice1", id: "id1" } ];
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<form>
<input type="text" id="fooInput" />
</form>
<div id="result">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var yourSource = [
{
label: "A",
id: "id1"
},
{
label: "B",
id: "id2"
}];
$("#fooInput").autocomplete({
source: yourSource,
select: function(event, ui) {
var e = ui.item;
var result = "<p>label : " + e.label + " - id : " + e.id + "</p>";
$("#result").append(result);
}
});
</script>
So try to format your data source like this :
var source = [ {label:"Foo", id:"1"}, ... ];

Inline editing - save new values on button click

I have following code for jQuery DataTables:
Contact.DataTable = $('#otable').DataTable( {
"ajax": {
"url" : '/Contact/' + Contact.id,
"dataSrc": function(check) {
return check.data;
},
},
"responsive": true,
"columns": [
{ "data": "id"},
{ "data": "category", "sClass": "category" },
{ "data": "name", "sClass": "name" },
{ "data": "lname" },
{
"render": function ( data, type, method, meta ) {
return Contact.saveContact(method);
}
},
]
} );
Datatable - dropdown - inline edit:
$('#otable tbody').on('click', '.category', function () { //second column
var row = this.parentElement;
if(!$('#otable').hasClass("editing")){
$('#otable').addClass("editing");
var data = Contact.DataTable.row(row).data();
var $row = $(row);
var thiscategory = $row.find("td:nth-child(2)");
var thiscategoryText = thiscategory.text();
thiscategory.empty().append($("<select></select>",{
"id":"category" + data[0],
"class":"in_edit"
}).append(function(){
var options = [];
$.each(Categories, function(key, value){
options.push($("<option></option>",{
"text":value,
"value":value
}))
})
return options;
}));
$("#category" + data[0]).val(thiscategoryText)
}
})
;
For changing values in dropdown
$('#otable tbody').on("change", ".in_edit", function(){ //Inline editing
var val = $(this).val();
$(this).parent("td").empty().text(val);
$('#otable').removeClass("editing");
});
Below code for saving new values(after inline edit) while clicking save:
$('#divsave').on("click", ".saveContact", function() {
var data = Contact.DataTable.row($(this).closest('tr')).data();
// Here I have to get new values after inline editing - but getting old values
});
My problem is : while clicking edit, in 'data', I am getting old values in the row of datatable, not the modified value after inline edit
datatable view - 1:
datatable - dropdown in column:
datatable after inline editing:
What I need: Save modified row while clicking 'save' image - currently it saves older value before inline editing(datatable view - 1)

When using dataTables it is generally a very bad idea to manipulate the DOM <table> or any content by "hand" - you should always go through the dataTables API.
Thats why you are getting "old values" - you have manipulated the content of the <table>, or so it seems - dataTables are not aware of those changes.
In a perfect world you should refactor the setup completely (i.e to use the API) but I guess you can solve the issue by using invalidate() on the row being changed in order to refresh the dataTables internals :
$('#otable tbody').on("change", ".in_edit", function(){ //Inline editing
var val = $(this).val();
$(this).parent("td").empty().text(val);
//add this line to refresh the dataTables internals
Contact.DataTable.row($(this).parent("tr")).invalidate();
//
$('#otable').removeClass("editing");
});

Simple jquery plugin for converting json to html

I need to append this json data to an html element.
[
{
"website":"google",
"link":"http://google.com"
},
{
"website":"facebook",
"link":"http://fb.com"
}
]
How to convert this easily using any plugin.Presently,I couldn't find any simple plugins in jquery,So please help me friends.
Thanks in advance..........

Hi you can use jPut jQuery Plugin (http://plugins.jquery.com/jput/)
Create a HTML jPut Template
<div jput="template">
{{website}}
</div>
<div id="main">
</div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
var json=[{"website":"google","link":"http://google.com"},
{"website":"facebook","link":"http://fb.com"}];
$('#main').jPut({
jsonData:json, //your json data
name:'template' //jPut template name
});
});
</script>

jPut is easy to use comparing to normal parsing.
if there is lots of data to be appended it is very difficult to append using $.each loop.
in jPut just need to create template & to print the data just put the object name in {{}}.

With jQuery, you could do something like this:
data = $.parseJson(json);
$.each(data, function(key, obj) {
htmlElement = $(''+website+'');
$('body').append(htmlElement);
})

Why use a plugin for this? No need to write a plugin to go around this. Just simply loop it through & do what you wan't with the data. Here is an example:
var data = [
{
"website":"google",
"link":"http://google.com"
},
{
"website":"facebook",
"link":"http://fb.com"
}
];
var html = '';
$.each(data, function (index, item) {
html += '' + item.website + '';
});
$('body').append(html);

If you're expecting it to be an anchor tag then -
Html -
<div id="siteContainer"></div>
JS-
var sites = [
{
"website":"google",
"link":"http://google.com"
},
{
"website":"facebook",
"link":"http://fb.com"
}
]
var $container = $('siteContainer');
$(sites).each(function(item, index){
var name = item['website'];
var link = item['link'];
var anchorTag = '' + name + '');
$container.appendTo(anchorTag);
});

NO need plugin, simply iterate with each function and append anchor tag with any selector tag.
var links = [
{
"website":"google",
"link":"http://google.com"
},
{
"website":"facebook",
"link":"http://fb.com"
}
];
$.each(links, function(index, object){
$("<a></a>").attr("href", object.link).
text( object.website).css("margin", "5px").appendTo("body");
})

no plugin needed, can be done without jquery too
<div id="container">
</div>
<script>
var data = [
{
"website":"google",
"link":"http://google.com"
},
{
"website":"facebook",
"link":"http://fb.com"
}
]
document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = ''+data[0]['website']+' >> '+data[0]['link']+' <br> '+data[1]['website']+' >> '+data[1]['link']
</script>

Pulling parts of JSON out to display them in a list

I have the following JSON:
var questions = {
section: {
"1": question: {
"1": {
"id" : "1a",
"title": "This is question1a"
},
"2": {
"id" : "1b",
"title": "This is question2a"
}
},
"2": question: {
"1": {
"id" : "2a",
"title": "This is question1a"
},
"2": {
"id" : "2b",
"title": "This is question2a"
}
}
}
};
NOTE: JSON changed based on the answers below to support the question better as the original JSON was badly formatted and how it works with the for loop below.
The full JSON will have 8 sections and each section will contain 15 questions.
The idea is that the JS code will read what section to pull out and then one by one pull out the questions from the list. On first load it will pull out the first question and then when the user clicks on of the buttons either option A or B it will then load in the next question until all questions have been pulled and then do a callback.
When the button in the appended list item is clicked it will then add it to the list below called responses with the answer the user gave as a span tag.
This is what I have so far:
function loadQuestion( $section ) {
$.getJSON('questions.json', function (data) {
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var item = data[i];
if (item === $section) {
$('#questions').append('<li id="' + item.section.questions.question.id + '">' + item.section.questions.question.title + ' <button class="btn" data-response="a">A</button><button class="btn" data-response="b">B</button></li>');
}
}
});
}
function addResponse( $id, $title, $response ) {
$('#responses').append('<li id="'+$id+'">'+$title+' <span>'+$response+'</span></li>');
}
$(document).ready(function() {
// should load the first question from the passed section
loadQuestion( $('.section').data('section') );
// add the response to the list and then load in the next question
$('button.btn').live('click', function() {
$id = $(this).parents('li').attr('id');
$title = $(this).parents('li').html();
$response = $(this).data('response');
addResponse( $id, $title, $response );
loadQuestion ( $('.section').data('section') );
});
});
and the HTML for the page (each page is separate HTML page):
<div class="section" data-section="1">
<ul id="questions"></ul>
<ul id="responses"></ul>
</div>
I've become stuck and confused by how to get only the first question from a section and then load in each question consecutively for that section until all have been called and then do a callback to show the section has been completed.
Thanks

Do not have multiple id's in html called "section."
Do not have multiple keys in your JSON on the same level called "section". Keys in JSON on the same level should be unique just as if you are thinking about a key-value hash system. Then you'll actually be able to find the keys. Duplicate JSON keys on the same level is not valid.
One solution can be section1, section2, etc. instead of just section. Don't rely on data-section attribute in your HTML - it's still not good if you have "section" as the duplicate html id's and as duplicate JSON keys.
If you have only one section id in HTML DOM, then in your JSON you must also have just one thing called "section" e.g.:
var whatever = {
"section" : {
"1": {
"question" : {
"1" : {
"id" : "1a",
"title" : "question1a"
},
"2" : {
"id" : "2a",
"title" : "question2a"
}
}
},
"2": {
"question" : {
"1" : {
"id" : "1a",
"title" : "aquestion1a"
},
"2" : {
"id" : "2a",
"title" : "aquestion2a"
}
}
}
}
}
console.log(whatever.section[1].question[1].title); //"question1a"
To get question, do something like this:
function loadQuestions(mySectionNum) {
$.getJSON('whatever.json', function(data){
var layeriwant = data.section[mySectionNum].question;
$.each(layeriwant, function(question, qMeta) {
var desired = '<div id="question-' +
qMeta.id +
'"' +
'>' +
'</div>';
$("#section").append(desired);
var quest = $("#question-" + qMeta.id);
quest.append('<div class="title">' + qMeta.title + '</div>');
//and so on for question content, answer choices, etc.
});
});
}
then something like this to actually get the questions:
function newQuestion(){
var myHTMLSecNum = $("#section").attr('data-section');
loadQuestions(myHTMLSecNum);
}
newQuestion();
//below is an example, to remove and then append new question:
$('#whatevernextbutton').on('click',function(){
var tmp = parseInt($("#section").attr('data-section'));
tmp++;
$("#section").attr('data-section', tmp);
$("#section").find('*').remove();
newQuestion();
});

Technically your getJSON function always retrieves the same data. Your code never compares the id given to the id you're extracting.
Your getJSON should look something like:
function loadQuestion( $section ) {
for (var i = 0; i < questions.section.length; i++) {
var item = questions.section[i];
if (item.id === $section) {
for (var j = 0; j < item.questions.length; j++) {
$('#questions').append('<li id="' +
item.questions[i].id + '">' +
item.questions[i].title +
' <button class="btn" data-response="a">A</button><button class="btn" data-response="b">B</button></li>'
);
}
}
}
}
Modify your JSON to:
var questions = {
section: [{
id: 1,
questions: [{
id: "1a",
title: "This is question1a"
},{
id: "2a",
title: "This is question2a"
}]},{
id: 2,
questions: [{
id: "1a",
title: "This is question1a"
},{
id: "2a"
title: "This is question2a"
}]
}]
};
Edit: your first parameter of getJSON is the URL of the JSON returning service.
You don't need getJSON at all if your JSON is already defined on the client. I have modified the code above.