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Validate contenteditable on enter and not on clicking

I'm using contenteditable so as people can edit a text.
So when you edit the text thas has contenteditable = true, if you click somewhere else in the page, it will "validate" your text and replace the older.
That's not the comportment I'd like it to have because the user has no way to get back to the older text except by refreshing the page.
To me, it should validate the text only if you press the Enter Key and not if you click somewhere else. If you click somewhere else then it should get back to the older text.
Any idea how to make it ?
Thanks ! :)

When the user clicks the box, you can store its value into a var, and when they click away, reset the box to that var.
If the Enter key doesn't already validate, here's some pseudocode as to what you could do:
var oldvalue = "";
function OnClickBox() {
oldvalue = (yourelement).value;
}
function OnClickAway() {
(yourelement).value = oldvalue;
}
function Validate() {
(yourelement).value = yourvalidationfunction(yourelement.value);
}
document.onkeydown = function (e) {
key = e.which || e.KeyCode;
if (e.keyCode === 16) { //enter key
Validate();
}
}
Then you assign the box's onclick to OnClickBox(), and unselecting the box to OnClickAway().
And for future posts, please include some code as to what you have tried already, and for better context as to your question.

call different events based on user input style javascript

I have a div which contains an input element to enter some values. These values are added just above the div as a list element upon pressing enter or onFocusOut event. To this point it is fine. But if user types some value and does not press enter and directly clicks on save button, the onFocusOut function for that div should not be called. Instead it should take that typed value and call some save function. Do you have any suggestion on how to detect it?
My code snippet is here
JS:
divInput.onkeypress = function (event){
return someTestFunc();
}
divInput.tabIndex="-1";
$(divInput).focusout(function (e) {
if ($(this).find(e.relatedTarget).length == 0) {
addToList();
}
});

It is not a very delicate solution, but you could use a setTimeout before adding the item to the list and clear the setTimeout on save.button click.
Try this:
var $saveButton = $('#exampleButton')[0],
$divInput = $('#exampleInput')[0],
timedEvent = -1;
$($saveButton).on('click', function(event){
if(timedEvent) {
clearTimeout(timedEvent)
}
alert('not add to list & save');
})
$divInput.tabIndex="-1";
$($divInput).on('focusout', function(e) {
timedEvent = window.setTimeout(function() {
if ($(this).find(e.relatedTarget).length == 0) {
alert('add to list');
}
}, 200);
});
Check this working fiddle

Prevent From Writing on TextArea using Bind Event "input propertychange"

I am handling the content inside a textarea using binding a function to the event "input propertychange"
Like this:
$('#textarea').bind('input propertychange', function () {
var textarea = document.getElementById('textarea');
window.lastLineWriting = textarea.value.substr(0, textarea.value.length).split("\n").length;
var writingOnLine = textarea.value.substr(0, textarea.selectionStart).split("\n").length;
if (writingOnLine < window.lastLineWriting) {
//dont write on textarea
}
});
I don't know how to prevent the char typed by the user's keyboard to appear on the textarea... Inside that if I want to prevent the text to be inserted on textarea..
How can I do this?

you could easily stop the user from typing with this code, using jQuery:
$('textarea').bind('keypress', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
});
NOTE:
this code will prevent the user from typing in all the textareas, to bind it specifically to one or some selected elements, you must change the selector to the desired elements.

var editable = false // Your Condition
if(editable != "true"){
$("#textarea" ).attr("disabled",true);
}

Need to evoke an enter keypress on textarea?

I have this obfuscated webpage that contains a text-area,
When a user manually inserts text and presses Enter key while editing the text area an event that changes the DOM launches.
I need to pragmatically launch that event,
I know how to get to the text-area itself (using getElementsByName)
and I'm basically inserting text via textArea.value = ''
How do I get that event to launch?

Could you call a function when enter is pressed, and then also just call that function when you want to simulate enter being pressed?
element.addEventListener("keypress", function(event){
if (event.keyCode == 13) {
// Enter has just been pressed.
enterPressed();
}
});
function enterPressed(){
// Do whatever you do when enter is pressed.
}
// Somewhere else off in your code when you want to "trigger" the enter press event:
enterPressed();

is this what you want
document.getElementById("id_of_your_textarea").addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
if (!e) { var e = window.event; }
e.preventDefault(); // sometimes useful
// Enter is pressed
if (e.keyCode == 13) { document.getElementById("id_of_your_textarea").value = '' }
}, false);
EDIT: based on your comment, you can use the trigger
if you can use jQuery.
$('#textArea').trigger('keydown');

Disabling/enabling a button based on multiple other controls using Javascript/jQuery

I have a bunch of controls:
When a user clicks the Generate button, a function uses all of the values from the other controls to generate a string which is then put in the Tag text box.
All of the other controls can have a value of null or empty string. The requirement is that if ANY of the controls have no user entered value then the Generate button is disabled. Once ALL the controls have a valid value, then the Generate button is enabled.
What is the best way to perform this using Javascript/jQuery?

This can be further optimized, but should get you started:
var pass = true;
$('select, input').each(function(){
if ( ! ( $(this).val() || $(this).find(':selected').val() ) ) {
$(this).focus();
pass = false;
return false;
}
});
if (pass) {
// run your generate function
}
http://jsfiddle.net/ZUg4Z/
Note: Don't use this: if ( ! ( $(this).val() || $(this).find(':selected').val() ) ).
It's just for illustration purposes.

This code assumes that all the form fields have a default value of the empty string.
$('selector_for_the_parent_form')
.bind('focus blur click change', function(e){
var
$generate = $('selector_for_the_generate_button');
$generate.removeAttr('disabled');
$(this)
.find('input[type=text], select')
.each(function(index, elem){
if (!$(elem).val()) {
$generate.attr('disabled', 'disabled');
}
});
});
Basically, whenever an event bubbles up to the form that might have affected whether the generate button ought to be displayed, test whether any inputs have empty values. If any do, then disable the button.
Disclaimer: I have not tested the code above, just wrote it in one pass.

If you want the Generate button to be enabled as soon as the user presses a key, then you probably want to capture the keypress event on each input and the change event on each select box. The handlers could all point to one method that enables/disables the Generate button.
function updateGenerateButton() {
if (isAnyInputEmpty()) {
$("#generateButton").attr("disabled", "disabled");
} else {
$("#generateButton").removeAttr("disabled");
}
}
function isAnyInputEmpty() {
var isEmpty = false;
$("#input1, #input2, #select1, #select2").each(function() {
if ($(this).val().length <= 0) {
isEmpty = true;
}
});
return isEmpty;
}
$("#input1, #input2").keypress(updateGenerateButton);
$("#select1, #select2").change(updateGenerateButton);
The above assumes that your input tags have "id" attributes like input1 and select2.