Only alert() works in my jQuery for animating window scroll - javascript

I'm trying to animate my window scrolling immediately as my page loads. I tried putting an alert() for testing purposes and it worked... but only the alert() did.
Javascript
$(document).ready(function(){
alert("jQuery is working!")
$("html, body").animate({
scrollTop:$("#page5").offset().top
}, 1000);
return false;
});

It seems that you forgot a semi-colon after your alert statement, which could be the reason.
Although it is not required but the browser might have implemented it that way.
EDIT: I tried executing the below code by omitting the semi-colon on chrome and it throws an error as SyntaxError: missing ; before statement. After putting it back, it works fine.
$(document).ready(function(){
alert("jQuery is working!")alert("not working")
});
EDIT-2: According to comments, it seems that the element you are trying to access does not exist on the page.

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JavaScript code is not executed during the runtime of the code, but when I debug it and execute in console, it works

I have a following code:
var e = document.getElementById("overlay");
e.parentNode.removeChild(e);
This code is supposed to remove the DOM element, but it doesn't. So I removed the code and added a breakpoint in its stead and input the code in the console during the pause manually, and it worked (i.e. the element was successfully removed).
This behavior seems rather strange for me, so I wanted to ask, why does it happen and what can I do to inspect this peculiar issue?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Thanks for quick replies. Nonetheless, I want to make it perfectly clear that the element #overlay does exist at the time of the execution of the code. Moreover, when I put a debugging breakpoint at that place in the code and execute these two lines of code, it does have an effect on this particular existent element (which it doesn't without debugging).
EDIT 2: I was asked to clarify the code. I execute the following code before the body (part of the queryloader2 plugin, which ensures image preloading):
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
new QueryLoader2(document.querySelector("body"), {});
});
No errors present (except for a 404 error because of missing image, which has no impact on Javascript).
As Teemu mentioned #overlay more than likely doesn't exist when the code is run.
For a test.. Try wrapping your code in either of these...
Javscript
window.onload = function () { /*your code*/ };
Jquery (if included)
$(document).ready(function () { /* your code*/ });
You should execute your code after the DOM tree has finished loading. One option is to wrap your code in a function that executes after the DOMContentLoaded event has been fired.
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
// your code
});
Look at this answer for more information: $(document).ready equivalent without jQuery

JQM .bind function call hangs on a method, but script still completes

I'm just getting started with Javascript, jQuery, and jQuery Mobile. I'm trying to go through a tutorial online, but I'm getting caught up on the mobileinit event handler. Here is the code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).bind("mobileinit", function() {
Notes.testHelper.createDumyNotes();
Notes.controller.init();
});
</script>
If I put an alert before and right after Notes.testHelper.createDummyNotes(); the alert is called. However, if I put the alert right after Notes.controller.init(), the alert isn't called. I imagine this means the code stopped in that function. However, if I put an alert right before the closing script tag outside of the function, that alert is called--This is what confuses me. How can a method hang and not allow the rest of a function to complete but still let the script complete?
As an interesting aside, I forgot to put the script tags around this .bind function at first, and the html was styled correctly. However, once I put the tags around this function, the html appeared but wasn't styled.
Any suggestions? As I said, I'm new to javascript, so this could be a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the language executes.
Thanks for your help!
The contents of $(document).bind("mobileinit", function() { ... } will be called when the mobileinit event is triggered, which will be AFTER the code between the script tags are read. This is why the alert you placed just before the closing script tag is executed.
If you put alert(1); before the closing tag, and alert(2); after the function() { and alert(3) after the createDumyNotes(), you will probably get 1 and 2 but not 3.
I think you're on the right path in that the error is occurring in the createDumyNotes() function. I suggest you get into that function with some try { ... } catch(e) { ... } and pinpoint where the error is occurring (assuming Notes and Notes.testHelper are valid objects, and Notes.testHelper.createDumyNotes() is an existing function.
EDIT
I just noticed that your function is createDumyNotes() instead of createDummyNotes(). Is this nothing more than a misspelling?

How to check dynamic javascript value with Jquery with IE

I am stuck on this, please help!
I have an external Javascript that inserts code on my page. Among other things it inserts an image wrapped in a div. I do not have control over the script, but I would like to change the image path/url using Jquery.
This is what I have done:
$('.ProductImage img').attr('src',function(index,attr){
return attr.replace('small','original');
});
Works like a charm in all browsers except IE.
When checking the selector with alert(), IE returns %Thumbnail% which is the Javascript variable/object. I have tried wrapping my script in a timeout to allow IE to finish loading but no luck.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Have you tried wrapping your code inside $(function(){ .. }) so that it will run after the document finished loading?
If your script is not loaded by the time your code gets executed you could try putting the code inside window.onload
window.onload = function(){
replaceImages();
};
function replaceImages(){
$('.ProductImage img').attr('src',function(index,attr){
return attr.replace('small','original');
});
}

jQuery $ is not a function in Firefox, works in Chrome and works with $(document).ready()

I'm implementing jQuery in a site and am getting the "$ is not a function" in Firefox when I try to use a selector, but $(document).ready() works perfectly right before it. My code looks like this
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
alert("hi")
}); // Works fine
function showDiv(){
$("#traditionalCC").hide();
}
//Throws error
</script>
Does anyone know why this happens, and why it works in Chrome and Firefox.
The key difference between your two examples (the working and non working ones) is that the first one is using the document ready event. That happens when the page is fully loaded. Not sure when you're other one is getting invoked, but my guess is that it is being called before your <script> tag include for jquery.js itself.
Try
<script>
$(function() {
alert("hi")
}); // Works fine
function showDiv(){
$("#traditionalCC").hide();
}
//Throws error
</script>
Try to use
$(document).ready(function() {
$ = jQuery.noConflict();
});
Fix your script declaration to <script type="text/javascript">
Verify if your script is after the jQuery lib include.
I hope it help.
I have found that sometimes Firefox gets "hosed" and I have to quit and relaunch.
In case anyone comes across this in the future, the problem was FireBug. I uninstalled and reinstalled and the issue went away.

$(window).load(function()-how it works with FF

I have a jquery code.
$(window).load(function() {
document.title = $("#myid").text(); //not working in FF
});
Here I have used $(window).load(function() because in the #myid I am getting value through another javascript, if I use ready(), its giving me error. so I am first loading the window then start reading value.
Now in IE, after the window loads itself , I am getting the value of document.title,
but for FF its coming as blank.undefined.
Why? any idea or alternate sln.
It might be a rendering/timing issue.
How are you setting the #myid text? Im assuming you are running this code on page load?
Personaly on another note, i like to use the shorthand version of jQuery DOM ready, this might also fix your problem too.
jQuery(function(){
document.title = jQuery("#myid").text();
});
And i would make sure that you call it at the end of the body or ideally in the head tag.
I think it is possible that firefox triggers ready and load at the same time when it loads quickly (localhost, small experiment page with one div, etc.)
Why not put the title setting in the ready function right after getting it? If You put it in a div, You can put it in the title too.
I didn't check this code and it isn't a good way, but maybe it help you...
If your code isn't working in Firefox only, you can check browser by Javascript and execute my code for Firefox only.
<script type="text/javascript">
var timerId = 0;
function checkElement() {
// If don't work: try .html() or $("#myid").text() != undefined or smth like this
if($("#myid").text()) {
document.title = $("#myid").text();
clearInterval(timerId);
}
}
$(document).ready(function() {
timerId = setInterval('checkElement()', 500);
});
</script>

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