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How to remove all spaces when pasting using jQuery or JavaScript instantly?

When a user pastes some text into a field I want to be able to remove all spaces instantly.
<input type="text" class="white-space-is-dead" value="dor on" />
$('.white-space-is-dead').change(function() {
$(this).val($(this).val().replace(/\s/g,""));
});
http://jsfiddle.net/U3CRg/22/
This code from another example works. But doesn't update until a user clicks on something besides the textbox. I am using MVC with jQuery/JavaScript.

Switch the event change for input, which will trigger whenever something is inputted into the field, even if text is being pasted.
$('.white-space-is-dead').on('input', function() {
$(this).val($(this).val().replace(/\s/g,""));
});
Take a look at jQuery Events to understand better what options you have.
Edit: updated the answer based on OP's comment and what I found on this answer.

The regex wasnt doing what you wanted. This works but does not fire until the text input loses focus.
$('.white-space-is-dead').change(function() {
$(this).val($(this).val().replace(/ /g,''));
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" class="white-space-is-dead" value="dor on" />

Setting Default value of input textbox in Jquery EasyUI dialog

I have googled and looked throughout the whole documentation and could not figure out why value of input text is not shown. I am using FireFox latest version and below is what I have done so far.
<input name="amount" class="easyui-validatebox" id="d_amount" value="">
In regular html or php page we can give value="300" to set default value, but in EasyUI, it is not possible. So I was thinking possible alternative like below:
<script>
var m = '300';
document.getElementById("d_amount").value.innerHTML=m;
</script>
Nothing is shown and I am not getting any error. Any EasyUI expert, please help me.
NOTE: this input field is inside the dialog

To set the default value, you have to set the value attribute. However, that does not necessarily update the value property so you need to do both. So given:
<input name="amount" class="easyui-validatebox" id="d_amount" value="">
set the default value by setting the value attribute:
var input = document.getElementById('d_amount')
input.setAttribute('value', 'whatever');
now set the value property:
input.value = 'whatever';
Note that you can also get a reference to the input as a member of the form that it's in:
var input = document.formName.d_amount;

Use the below code
$("#d_amount").numberbox({
min:0,
precision:2,
value:300
})
Reference : numberbox
Or try this one
$("#d_amount").textbox({
buttonText:'Search',
iconCls:'icon-man',
iconAlign:'left',
value:"300"
});
Reference : textbox

use this code to set the value inside $(document).ready(function(){}
....
$("#d_amount").numberbox('setValue','300');
....
if still not working, just try to set name and id as the same name and id
<input name="d_amount" class="easyui-validatebox" id="d_amount" value="">
I am always working with this numberbox and it's working

I have found your thread because I am also having the same issue and I have just across this thing today. Your case is a little bit different (maybe) then my case because you want to set the default which can be changed by the user later (I believe). In my case, the value will be fixed (will not be changed) so I have applied a trick and hopefully it can give some ideas to you and others who are having same issue. Please refer below:
In first page says pageA.php:
<select name="myThing" id="myThing">
<option value="Your Desired Value" selected="selected">Something</option>
</select>
Still in the same page, under your $(document).ready( function(){ put the code below:
$("#myThing").val($("#myThing option:first").val());
That code is to make sure your desired value appears at the first row in the drop down. I say this because in EasyUI it seems when I use drop down and put single option, the first row will be blank and the second row will hold your input. So that is the trick to ensure your desired value appears on top and selected. Put the select under the form then during normal post, you will be able to get the value of it in the posted page. Enjoy. Thank you.
Suggestion: if your value can be changed by user, use placeholder and you can hide the default value from user using my trick.

try this
document.getElementById("d_amount").value=m;
you don't need innerHTML

I found the answer here. The trick is to use the code inside $(function(){});
$(function(){
var m=300;
$('#d_amount').textbox('setValue', m);
});

I too had this problem and it was solved using the following
First my input was in the form like this:
<input name="hostFirstName" id="hostFirstName" class="easyui-textbox">
I needed to load content from the db then pre-fill the input with this data so the user could edit the content.
I used the following javascript.
NOTE: i didn't hide this away inside an anonymous function() and it is working. I tested this first from the F12 console to make sure it was working before changing my code.
//populate with existing data
$('#hostFirstName').textbox('setValue', "Is this working?");
The docs on jeasyui.com don't provide this example when you look at the textbox api reference. But they do provide an example when looking at the combobox (http://www.jeasyui.com/documentation/index.php#) the combobox and textbox use the same setValue method.
Hopefully this works for you like it does for me.

Show Input Box on Check

You can see in the paper form attached what I need to convert into a web form. I want it to show the check boxes and disable the input fields unless the user checks the box next to it. I've seen ways of doing this with one or two elements, but I want to do it with about 20-30 check/input pairs, and don't want to repeat the same code that many times. I'm just not experienced enough to figure this out on my own. Anyone know anywhere that explains how to do this? Thanks!
P.S. Eventually this data is all going to be sent through an email with PHP.

I don't think this is a good idea at all.
Think of the users. First they have to click to enter a value. So they always need to change their hand from mouse to keyboard. This is not very usable.
Why not just give the text-fields? When sending with email you could just leave out the empty values.

in your HTML :
//this will be the structure of each checkbox and input element.
<input type="checkbox" value="Public Relations" name="skills" /><input type="text" class="hidden"/> Public Relations <br/>
in your CSS:
.hidden{
display:none;
}
.shown{
display:block;
}
in your jQuery:
$('input[type=checkbox]').on('click', function () {
// our variable is defined as, "this.checked" - our value to test, first param "shown" returns if true, second param "hidden" returns if false
var inputDisplay = this.checked ? 'shown' : 'hidden';
//from here, we just need to find our next input in the DOM.
// it will always be the next element based on our HTML structure
//change the 'display' by using our inputDisplay variable as defined above
$(this).next('input').attr('class', inputDisplay );
});
Have fun.

Since your stated goal is to reduce typing repetitive code, the real answer to this thread is to get an IDE and the zen-coding plug in:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/21/zen-coding-a-new-way-to-write-html-code/
http://vimeo.com/7405114

.val() and .text() don't work?

I want to email div contents via php and form tag. I have 2 divs with these classes:
.simpleCart_items
.simpleCart_total
I want to fetch contents from these divs and insert their contents in inputs or textareas, then submit the form to my php file.
I wrote this JQuery code:
$('#shopform').submit(function(){
var items = $('.simpleCart_items').text();
var tprice = $('.simpleCart_total').text();
$('#itemsinfo').val(items);
$('#totalprice').val(tprice);
});
and these are my inputs:
<textarea id="itemsinfo" style="width:320px; height:160px"></textarea>
<input type="text" id="totalprice"/>
but it doesn't work. The contents didn't move to the input tags.

It must be something else in your HTML or script that you are showing us because when I set up a simple test using your code, it works fine here: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/7q6DP/.
This works perfectly fine for me (in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE):
HTML:
<button id="submitForm">Submit</button>
<div class="simpleCart_items">simpleCart items text</div>
<div class="simpleCart_total">simpleCart total</div>
<textarea id="itemsinfo" style="width:320px height:160px"></textarea><br>
<input type="text" id="totalprice"/>
Javascript (after page is loaded):
$('#submitForm').click(function(){
var items = $('.simpleCart_items').text();
var tprice = $('.simpleCart_total').text();
$('#itemsinfo').val(items);
$('#totalprice').val(tprice);
});
Please show the rest of your code and HTML.
The things to check are:
Are there any javascript errors showing in the error console or in the debugger console?
Are you initializing your event handlers after the page has loaded?
Do any javascript errors show in the debug console when you press the submit button?
Is your submitForm event handler getting called? If you set a breakpoint or put an alert in their, does it get hit?
Can you set a breakpoint in your submit handler and see what's happening with the values of items or tprice?
Make sure your class names don't have the leading period on them when you put them in your HTML. It should be class="simpleCart_items", not class=".simpleCart_items".

Your code works just fine when I put it in a page:
http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/krYQh/
When you click the submit button, the fields are populated with the data. (I added a return false in the submit event handler just to keep the form from posting.)
Some possible errors in your code:
You have used class=".simpleCart_items" instead of class="simpleCart_items".
The form doesn't have id="shopform".
You have use the ids shopform, itemsinfo or totalprice on any other elements.

I guess you should use ".html()" instead of ".text" something like below.
$('#shopform').submit(function(){
var items = $('.simpleCart_items').html();
var tprice = $('.simpleCart_total').html();
$('#itemsinfo').html(items);
$('#totalprice').val(tprice);
});

I suppose you should use .innerHTML instead of .text()

You should be able to use the .val() to get the value for the text areas instead of using .text().
Try using alert(items); before you set the div's contents just to make sure you are actually getting data.

Clear default values using onsubmit

I need to clear the default values from input fields using js, but all of my attempts so far have failed to target and clear the fields. I was hoping to use onSubmit to excute a function to clear all default values (if the user has not changed them) before the form is submitted.
<form method='get' class='custom_search widget custom_search_custom_fields__search' onSubmit='clearDefaults' action='http://www.example.com' >
<input name='cs-Price-2' id='cs-Price-2' class='short_form' value='Min. Price' />
<input name='cs-Price-3' id='cs-Price-3' class='short_form' value='Max Price' />
<input type='submit' name='search' class='formbutton' value=''/>
</form>
How would you accomplish this?

Read the ids+values of all your fields when the page first loads (using something like jquery to get all "textarea", "input" and "select" tags for example)
On submit, compare the now contained values to what you stored on loading the page
Replace the ones that have not changed with empty values
If it's still unclear, describe where you're getting stuck and I'll describe more in depth.
Edit: Adding some code, using jQuery. It's only for the textarea-tag and it doesn't respond to the actual events, but hopefully it explains the idea further:
// Keep default values here
var defaults = {};
// Run something like this on load
$('textarea').each(function(i, e) {
defaults[$(e).attr('id')] = $(e).text();
});
// Run something like this before submit
$('textarea').each(function(i, e){
if (defaults[$(e).attr('id')] === $(e).text())
$(e).text('');
})
Edit: Adding some more code for more detailed help. This should be somewhat complete code (with a quality disclaimer since I'm by no means a jQuery expert) and just requires to be included on your page. Nothing else has to be done, except giving all your input tags unique ids and type="text" (but they should have that anyway):
$(document).ready(function(){
// Default values will live here
var defaults = {};
// This reads and stores all text input defaults for later use
$('input[type=text]').each(function(){
defaults[$(this).attr('id')] = $(this).text();
});
// For each of your submit buttons,
// add an event handler for the submit event
// that finds all text inputs and clears the ones not changed
$('input[type=submit]').each(function(){
$(this).submit(function(){
$('input[type=text]').each(function(){
if (defaults[$(this).attr('id')] === $(this).text())
$(this).text('');
});
});
});
});
If this still doesn't make any sense, you should read some tutorials about jQuery and/or javascript.

Note: This is currently only supported in Google Chrome and Safari. I do not expect this to be a satisfactory answer to your problem, but I think it should be noted how this problem can be tackled in HTML 5.
HTML 5 introduced the placeholder attribute, which does not get submitted unless it was replaced:
<form>
<input name="q" placeholder="Search Bookmarks and History">
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
Further reading:
DiveintoHTML5.ep.io: Live Example... And checking if the placeholder tag is supported
DiveintoHTML5.ep.io: Placeholder text

1) Instead of checking for changes on the client side you can check for the changes on the client side.
In the Page_Init function you will have values stored in the viewstate & the values in the text fields or whichever controls you are using.
You can compare the values and if they are not equal then set the Text to blank.
2) May I ask, what functionality are you trying to achieve ?

U can achieve it by using this in your submit function
function clearDefaults()
{
if(document.getElementById('cs-Price-2').value=="Min. Price")
{
document.getElementById('cs-Price-2').value='';
}
}