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Add a link to a form with jQuery (userscript) in Firefox

I'm trying to add a search link to an online form with a userscript using jQuery. I don't work too much in firefox and I feel like things that would normally work in chrome don't in ff 9/10 times for me. But anyway... this needs to be with ff.
I'm taking the text from a <p> element and creating a search url out of it (or trying to). Right now this is the function I'm trying that should be doing it... but it's doing nothing, not even any errors in console
$(function() {
var companyName = $('p')[7]; // Element that contains the name text
var companyText = companyName.text(); // Retrieve the text from element
var mixRankUrl = $("<a></a>").innerHTML("Search Mixrank"); // Create an <a> element
mixRankUrl.href = 'https://mixrank.com/appstore/sdks?search=' + companyText; // Define the href of the a element
var sdkPara = $('label.control-label')[10]; // Where I want it to go
sdkPara.append(mixRankUrl); // Append the element
});
Also, whoever wrote the html uses hardly any ids, and most classes are assigned to 10 or more elements... so unless there's a better way, I'm sort of stuck using node selectors (which stay the same form to form).

The problem is that you try to use jQuery method on DOM element. Don't understand why you don't have any errors with your code.
For exemple : $('p')[7] return a DOM element while $('p').eq(7) return a JQuery object. So you can't use a jQuery method like text() on your DOM element. You need to deal with jQuery object.
For the same reason, you had a problem with the declaration of your label object and with the modification of the href attribute of your link.
Try like this :
$(function() {
var companyName = $('p').eq(7); // Element that contains the name text
var companyText = companyName.text(); // Retrieve the text from element
var sdkPara = $('label.control-label').eq(10); // Where I want it to go
var mixRankUrl = $('<a>',{
text: 'Search Mixrank',
href: 'https://mixrank.com/appstore/sdks?search=' + companyText
}).appendTo(sdkPara); // Append the element
});

Overriding generated text on the Dom

As part of a bunch of javascript a bunch of HTML is generated:
//for loop
var title = document.createElement('strong');
title.className = "titleSub";
//more add etc.
So this part is working correctly:
That text in there crom from a database call. All I'm trying to do is override this text:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".titleSub").Text("sss");
});
However, this code is not applying and the text is not updated. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it??

It is .text() and not .Text() and JavaScript is CaSe SeNsItIvE.
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".titleSub").text("sss");
});

When building the element title, try
title.innerText = 'sss';
Or if you wish to do after the element is inserted into the DOM
$('.titleSub').text('sss');

Try .innerText() or .innerHtml instead of .Text()

jquery detach() inside custom click event

I have a fairly complex situation (to me at least):
I have a click function that was used to show an overlay. Inside the click function, the element in question is determined dynamically:
$('a.overlay-show').click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var el_id = '#project-details-overlay-' + id;
Now what I'd like to do is something like:
$(el_id).detach();
But I am seeing that this doesn't work because I am passing in an element not a selector. So how would one do this?
What I need to do is grab that element and re-attach it somewhere else. I have tried to just deal with the element's contents using .html() and so forth but because the content, at times contains javascript elements such as slideshows, this doesn't seem to work out too well...
Any suggestions?

should work this way:
$('a.overlay-show').click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var el_id = $('#project-details-overlay-' + id);
el_id.detach();
});
i'm not familiar with detach.. if you're trying to move it somewhere else:
<div id="somewhereElse"></div>
then you would write:
el_id.appendTo('#somewhereElse');
if you want to keep it where it is AND copy it somewhere else:
el_id.clone().appendTo('#somewhereElse');
lastly, if you're not using el_id anywhere else beyond this one line of code, you don't even need the extra variable... just condense the var statement and the append statement into one:
$('#project-details-overlay-' + id).appendTo('#somewhereElse');

Thanks #erikruina - appendTo() works much better. I ended up fixing it with
$('a.overlay-show').click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var el_id = $('#project-details-overlay-' + id);
$(el_id).appendTo('#selected-project');
});
I suspect that the issue is that with detach(); you also need to deal with all the child elements, whereas appendTo() just works.

Extracting text from a HTML to be stored as a JS variable, then to be added to a separate HTML's element

Alrite, I have seen other Questions with similar titles but they don't do exactly what Im asking.
I have 2 x HTML documents, one containing my page, one containing a element with a paragraph of text in it. As-well as a separate .js file
what I want to do is extract this text, store it as a JS variable and then use jQuery to edit the contents of an element within the main page. This is the conclusion I came to but it didnt work as expected, im not sure if it is me making a syntax error or if i am using the wrong code completely:
$(document).ready(function(){
var c1=(#homec.substring(0))
// #homec is the container of the text i need
$(".nav_btn #1").click(function(c1){
$(".pcontent span p") .html(+c1)}
);
});
i know +c1 is most probably wrong, but i have been struggling to find the syntax on this one. thankyou in advance :D

var c1=(#homec.substring(0)) will throw an error because #homec is not a valid variable name, is undefined, and does not have a property function called substring. To get the html of an element with an id of homec, use the html method:
var c1 = $("#homec").html();
c1 should not be an argument of the click function because it is defined in the parent scope. +c1 is unnecessary because you do not need to coerce c1 to a number.
If you are trying to add content to the end of the paragraph, use the append method:
$(".pcontent span p").append(c1)
That means you should use this code instead:
$(document).ready(function() {
var c1 = $("#homec").html();
$(".nav_btn #1").click(function() {
$(".pcontent span p").append(c1)
});
});
P.S. Numbers are not valid ID attributes in HTML. Browsers support it, so it won't make anything go awry, but your pages won't validate.

Try this:
$(".nav_btn #1").click(function(c1){
var para = $(".pcontent span p");
para.html(para.html() + c1);
});

The JQuery text() function will allow you to get the combined text contents of each element in the set of matched elements, including their descendants. You can then use the text(value) function to set the text content of your target paragraph element. Something like this should suffice:
$(document).ready(function() {
var c1 = $("homec").text();
$(".nav_btn #1").click(function() {
$(".pcontent span p").text(c1);
});
});
See the JQuery documentation for more details on the text() function. If you need to capture the full structure of the other document, then try the html() function instead.

jQuery + InnovaStudio WYSIWYG Editor

I am trying to avoid hard-coding each instance of this WYSIWYG editor so I am using jQuery to create an each() loop based on function name. Annoyingly InnovaStudio seems to explode when I try.
Documentation
Attempt #1
<script type="text/javascript">
/*
id = $(this).attr('id');
if(id.length == 0)
{
id = 'wysiwyg-' + wysiwyg_count;
$(this).attr('id', id);
}
WYSIWYG[wysiwyg_count] = new InnovaEditor('WYSIWYG[' + wysiwyg_count + ']');
WYSIWYG[wysiwyg_count].REPLACE(id);
*/
var demo = new InnovaEditor('demo');
demo.REPLACE('wysiwyg-1');
console.log('loop');
</script>
Effect
Works fine, but of course only works for a single instance of the editor. If I want multiple instances I need to use an each.
Attempt #2:
<script type="text/javascript">
var wysiwyg_count = 1;
//var WYSIWYG = [];
var demo;
(function($) {
$(function() {
$('.wysiwyg-simple').each(function(){
/*
id = $(this).attr('id');
if(id.length == 0)
{
id = 'wysiwyg-' + wysiwyg_count;
$(this).attr('id', id);
}
WYSIWYG[wysiwyg_count] = new InnovaEditor('WYSIWYG[' + wysiwyg_count + ']');
WYSIWYG[wysiwyg_count].REPLACE(id);
*/
demo = new InnovaEditor('demo');
demo.REPLACE('wysiwyg-1');
console.log('loop');
});
});
})(jQuery);
</script>
Effect
Replaces the entire HTML body of my page with JUST WYSIWYG related code and complains as no JS is available (not even Firebug, so can't debug).
Notice that I am hardcoding the name still. I only have one instance on the page I am testing it on, so when I get this hard-coded name working I will get the commented out code working along the same lines.
Does anybody know what the hell is going on here?

Solution: Don't bother trying to use InnovaStudio, went with CKEditor instead.

Even though you went for CKEditor you might be interested in a solution. You can supply a second argument to the REPLACE function. This second argument should also be a id, id from a element able to accept html output (like div, span, p).
demo = new InnovaEditor('demo');
demo.REPLACE('wysiwyg-1', 'wysiwyg-1-replaceDiv');
When the second argument is left out, InnovaStudio, writes the html output to the document by simply using:
document.write();
Hope this helps!

Why don't you use their own initialization code since version 4.3:
<textarea class="innovaeditor">
content here...
</textarea>
<script>
oUtil.initializeEditor("innovaeditor",
{width:"700px", height:"450px"}
);
</script>
The method is oUtil.initializeEditor(selector, option). The first parameter is selector and second is editor properties in JSON format.
The selector can be:
Css class name, if class name is specified all textareas with specified class name will be replaced with editor.
Textarea Id. If it is an Id, a prefix '#' must be added, for example oUtil.initializeEditor("#mytextarea").
Textarea object.
The second parameter is editor's properties. All valid editor's properties can be specified here for example width, height, cmdAssetManager, toolbarMode, etc.
Note that this method can be called from page onload or document ready event or during page load (as long as the object referred by selector are already rendered). This method available automatically when the page include the editor script.