Cheers, everybody!
I'm generating an HTML table dynamically using JS, and placing it into a 'div' element in another page. It's sort of OK, a few amendments, but I get the table output, better than i would expect.
Nevertheless, the problem is that my destination page where the 'div' element is placed, doesn't get updated, it stays blank like there was nothing there when in fact there should be, since i'm setting it, and otherwise where does the table come from in the page, right? Seems awkward to me. I see a table, but there's no correspondent html code for it in the page.
Specially because i need to take a look in detail to fix the issues in my table layout.
Now, I'm pretty sure this is a very naive question, beginner's, and if I only knew it enough, I would understand what's going on, but at the moment, it's totally impossible for me to stop to take a deeper look at this, lots of stuff.
I really could use some contribution, like a fast and elucidative answer, sort of what do i do to view the table html, where is it 'hiding'? Preferentially.
But as much important as it, a few 'read this' or 'read that', if you don't mind, because at this stage, You know, bump into an obstacle every two steps.
Anyway,thanks in advance! I would appreciate any help!
Page source only displays static content received from the server. To see the dynamic content added by your JS code you need to use the developer tools of the browser.
Easiest way to do this is to right click on the table and select 'Inspect Element' to see the generated HTML for your table.
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I am a newbie with html and i need your support. Please look at my code:
https://fiddle.jshell.net/ghLoau6r/1/
Now I want to make a list of FAQs as table. The requirements are:
when we click to any link button (here we have 2 link buttons as 2 rows of the table), the background must be changed (not pink anymore, but another color)
when we click to any link button, the triangle at the beginning of the row also changes to another form (i created already but my code does not run)
when we click "show info 2", the corresponding "content 2" should be shown, instead of "content 1" now.
please help me, thank you guys very much !
So, not to be rude but there is so many things that need to be fixed here, that I don't have time to share them all with you. I'd strongly recommend picking up a book (HeadFirst HTML & CSS isn't bad, there are plenty others) and getting a solid understanding before continuing the work.
That said, the core problems to your specific question are that first, ID's should be unique (you have two elements with the ID of 'content1'). Second, your second link is looking for content1 still, even though you want content2. A quick fix would be to update the ID of the second content area ,and then update the anchor onclick handler to look for the correct ID.
That said, this is pretty far from an ideal or scalable solution, so please read up.
As commented, I think it will be hard to help without completely writing it for you. But I'd like to at least point out that you should move your JavaScript from inline/in the HTML into a separate JS file.
In your JS Fiddle, take this:
onclick="document.getElementById('content1').style.display=(document.getElementById('content1').style.display=='none')?'block':'none'"
And put it in the "JavaScript" section of JS Fiddle, inside of a $(document).ready() function. Use jQuery to register the onclick event to the behavior you want. Can include jQuery in your fiddle by using a jQuery URI such as https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js
Godpseeed
I have a horribly coded set of controllers which I am unable to refactor at this time. I need to bring them under automated testing, but have run into an issue with the UIAutomation tool.
These controllers are dynamically generated. There were many ways to do this but somebody decided it would be best if they made a tableview containing cells which each contain more tableviews, containing the cells that the user will see and interact with.
A simple example of one of these controllers is as follows:
I need to press one of those table view cells automagically.
After struggling with some view hierarchy issues, I finally managed to get the logElementTree to see all of the cells, with correct accessibility identifiers. Here is the result:
Now just to test that I can press one of the buttons from a script...
NOPE. I can't seem to drill down into the elements even though the logTree clearly shows they exist and are visible.
Any ideas very welcome. I'm not very experienced with javascript so I could be missing something obvious. Thanks!
To answer my own question and thanks to a helpful engineer at the WWDC:
target.frontMostApp().mainWindow().tableViews()[0].cells()[0].tableViews()[0].cells()["Open"].tap();
I've set up the CLeditor on a site I'm working on. Currently I'm setting it up so that as you type and edit within the editor, you can see a live preview of the results just above it, a lot like what you get when typing a StackOverflow question, though much more basic.
It works by simply copying the inner HTML of the iframe contents to another place on the page. However I've run into an annoying issue. When I use the alignment buttons (left, center, right), it adds the attribute align="right", for example, to the selected text. While it works in the editor, it does not work on the page itself, probably because that attribute is pretty much obsolete.
...
I actually figured out how to get around this issue while typing this question. Still, I'll post this question with my solution. Plus I have a relevant question to add to this.
Originally I tried applying the following CSS to the page:
div[align="right"] {
text-align:right!important;
}
This worked for initially loading the data onto the page, but while dynamically changing alignment in the editor, the live preview was not reflecting the changes. I thought at first that this was because the styles were applied at load time only.
Well, that was a brain fart because I know better than that. The real problem was that I was selecting a DIV element and the align attribute isn't necessarily applied to a DIV. Changing div[align="right"] to *[align="right"] works perfectly.
However, even though I found a workaround for this specific issue, I still can't figure out how the cleditor builds the HTML output for the iframe. Where does the align attribute come from in the code and how does it know to put it (and all of the other elements/attributes) into the HTML? If I had a way of manipulating this, I could simply tell it to use inline CSS for the alignment rather than the deprecated align HTML attribute. Please note that I do not wish to enable the cleditor's built-in "useCSS" feature.
Thanks for any information you can share, and please do not downvote this question just because I already solved the initial problem. I want this to be able to help others if they run into the same issue. (I'll also post my answer as an answer).
Applying the following CSS to the live-preview of the page works perfectly:
*[align="right"] {
text-align:right!important;
}
Don't forget to do the same for left and center as well.
This is a bit of an odd issue I'm having. I've been using John Resig' micro-templates for a meeting minutes application, and it seemed to work well, but lately I've been having an issue.
Basically the application fetches some JSON from an ajax call, and then uses the templating engine to generate a table with various actions like so:
This works fine, its a little slow in IE (javascript rendering) but it works. However randomly I'll get a stuff up in the display:
notice the gap there, its pushed it out wide, also, its made the rest of the rows squish up. I've tried every CSS/HTML trick I can think of to try and get IE to render it properly, but I'm out of ideas (any suggestions would be great!) . I'm using JQuery Sortable so you can drag each of those rows around, I noticed that when you drag it and place it again, it displays correctly. It's as if it thinks theres an extra TD there, when there isn't.
So I opened the IE developer tools and copied the inner HTML of the HTML element. Pasted this into a HTML file and put it on the server, turned off the JS so it wouldn't reload the elements and ran the page. It displays perfectly, just as in my first image.
So I'm confused as to why IE will render the page fine if the HTML is present from the start, but the templating engine causes odd stuff ups.
I'll probably look at rendering that part of the HTML on the server, and only use the templating where I need to. But has anyone come across this sort of issue before? is there any trick I can do to make it render it as it should?
we had similar problem in our company and our designer solved it. Solution was in concatenating tags one after another without spaces and/or without new line. Code is not looking great after that but still solves problem.
Thanks,
Nikola
I am coding some sort of booking system - calendar. One of the features is also a (js) pop up window with detailed information about event - user can either view them or edit.
Now my problem - I have put there a HTML select control (dropdown box), quite simple - 5 options. But somehow, and I have no ide why, this select is uneditable - that means that after I click on it nothing happens (I do not get the list of the options).
I know that now I should put a code here, however, whole system is so complex that it would take me ages.
I do not await exact answer or solution of my problem. I would like to ask you for advice - what would you check? I went through CSS up and down - no clue at all. Maybe some javascript? But how? I do use one public js library, so it might be something there, I checked as well, no clue.
Any advice would be much appreciated. I am stuck now... :-(
Thanks a lot!
Peter
::EDIT::
I have found out what is was! The ID if that pop-up window is bbit-cal-buddle and there is this line in the .js:
$("#bbit-cal-buddle").mousedown(function(e) { return false });
which basically explains why I can't select anything in dropdown (funny thing - checkboxes and radio works!). So my question is: how do I exclude my select and option tag from that .js command?
I've found a useful option when the bug is that obscure is to logarithmically comment your code.
That is,
Comment 100% of the code that might be causing a problem.
Test
If it works, uncomment 50% of the code you commented and go to step #2.
If it doesn't work, you know the problem exists in the code you uncommented.
Yes, this is somewhat of a monolothic technique, but I've found it to be very useful in the past.
Regards,
-Doug
Just to be sure, turn off ALL styles. this will render your page without the styles(obviously) and check if you can click the drop down. If you can, it is 98% a CSS error. It happened to me awhile ago - most probably an absolutely positioned div is covering it.
If you still can't click it, bring back the CSS then disable all javascripts. It should still be clickable by then since and html select tag doesnt need JS to be clickable.
If it still doesn't work, try doing a regular html select tag and check if you can select that one. If you can, then there is something wrong with your select tag