Sorry for the title.....bit difficult to word what I really want to ask.
Some websites allow a user to copy and paste some widget for use with their own site. For example, getsatisfaction. Yes, those feedback icons that I hope most of you see in various places.
If you have a look at twitterfeed, on the left there will be a feedback icon, once clicked on a nice modal window comes up. the modal windows content is in an iframe to an external source.
I really like this, but my question is:
I could do the same by using some jQuery library for the modal window and then linking the modal content to a site on my page, but how do I stop this from becoming obtrusive to a sites other javascript files?
For example, let's say i'm using my js code and the relevant jquery code, and i've minified it into one file. The user adds my widget to their site. If they're using jQuery, how do I make sure my code isn't going to interfere with theirs?
Would the best way be to use a modal window library which is not very popular?
Thanks very much. Hope that makes sense!
EDIT: I could write my own modal window functionality code, but i'd much rather use a library which already does it.
You can dynamically load jQuery only if it is needed.
First check for the existance of the jQuery object. If not add the script tag.
There are some challenges to this, as there is no onload event when adding a script tag to a page, that works consistently accross browsers, so you will have to poll to see if it fully loaded, and only then run your code.
There is an article on how to do this:
http://www.squidoo.com/load-jQuery-dynamically
You may still have an issue if the user has a differnt version of the jquery library though, although you can probably get around this with some additional checks.
jQuery UI has very nice dialog components that should fit your purpose. Inside them you can instantiate an iframe. see:
http://elijahmanor.com/demos/jqueryuidialogiframe/index.html
If I understand all this correctly, the iframe content is a separate page, so there is no case where your javascript code in that page would interfere with the javascript of the calling page, but maybe I haven't understood that part correctly?
EDIT:
I think I understand what you meant, in that you want to package up the code that you will write that opens the modal window with the iframe. SO you want to make sure that this code does not interfere with existing jQuery code that the user is using.
I think this is a good use case for a jQuery plugin. This way the user of the page can use your function like any jQuery function, so less likelyhood of collisions
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For our website we would like to give users the availability to include content of our website on their own website in an iframe. For this we would like to give the user a little piece of javascript code that they can include on their page without the need of too much programming knowledge. (like e.g. Facebook does for adding facepile to your page)
There are two concerns from my side. I want the content to be loaded asynchronous so the inclusion of our code will not affect original page load times ans secondly I want the script to automaticaly sets the height of the iframe based on the loaded external content.
I do not want to make use of frameworks like jquery, again to make it as simple as possible for a non code aware user.
I hope that someone can point me to the right direction. I've seen a lot of partial answers on the net, but I am looking for a more all in one solution. Any help would be high appreciated!
Maybe this helps: http://www.aaronpeters.nl/blog/iframe-loading-techniques-performance. Take a look at the "Dynamic async iframe" section. They are using a nice trick by putting a onload event in the iframe document.
Check out this little library for resizing iFrames.
https://github.com/davidjbradshaw/iframe-resizer
The code that goes into the iframe, has no dependancies and does nothing until called by the parent page. So it's a good guest on other peoples sites.
All you would need to do is give people a link the js file hosted on your site.
I have a list of elements that need to have a corresponding pop up for each element. This is not a pop up where the background is blacked. This is more like a javascript alert although I need to create my own styled button within the pop up with our own bespoke event assigned to it. I need each pop to position itself appropriately next to the relevant item within the UI.
Whats the best way to do this? Are there any examples please? I only want the pop up to show when the visitor triggers an event.
Many thanks,
I suggest you to use Colorbox for pop-up systems. Fırst of all; it is easy to learn and use.
And most importantly: Colorbox won't create conflicts with your other plugins (sometimes fancybox does that).
Some Features:
Supports photos, grouping, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed
content.
Lightweight: 10KB of JavaScript (less than 5KBs gzipped).
Appearance is controlled through CSS so it can be restyled.
You can easily do this without using jQuery Plugins.
I put together a little example.
What about http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-confirmation
or http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-message
I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC project which uses the MarkdownDeep Editor to add a rich editor on top of a basic markdown input textbox (very similar to the Stackoverflow editor window).
Generally it works great. However, in certain scenarios, I would like to disable the preview window. This is automatically generated below the textarea by MDD. Can this be disabled?
Just to be clear, I know I can use CSS to hide the preview. But on some devices it's slow and makes typing painful. I want to entirely turn off that feature. I don't see anything in the docs other than how to customize the preview.
Any ideas?
In the docs it specifically mentions that it is recommended that you have the div preview already in your document because it will be created if it isn't found and consequently, could could a visible page refresh if any re-layout has to occur.
Note: the associated divs are all optional and if missing, the plugin will create them. However... you might experience the page jumping around during load if you do this. ie: it's recommended to explicitly include them.
Thus from the sounds of this, and that there doesn't appear to be any option to turn it off in the API page I would say no, it's not possible.
I am a little confused here: if you don't want the preview, use a regular text area instead of mdd_editor... So, under the scenarios where you don't need the previews, instantiate a plain vanilla editor. What am I missing here?
I know this is old, but I was looking for something else on mdd. I recently had this same requirement.
Just comment out the code
// Update the DOM
if (this.m_divHtml)
this.m_divHtml.innerHTML=output;
in MarkdownDeepEditor.js
I have just started using ShareThis Widget to help handle social media integration with one of our sites. While the functionality is great, I feel I lose a lot of the capabilities I have if I were to code each item by hand, such as the ability to control the size of the windows opened by clicking a 'share' functionality.
While their site shows basic functions you can add to the buttons (url, etc) I am looking to customize the feel such that when a button is clicked, I can control the size of that window or even possibly open in an existing colorbox snippet.
Has anybody had luck with this before? When I try to control via javascript function it just seems to get overwritten or ignored.
You'd need to unbind their events and handle them all yourself. It probably isn't a good idea, as your code will be at the mercy of their implementation.
I am not sure if your question is resolved, but you will need to add as following inside JS.
popup: 'true'
The same is on their Support Page
I'm creating a popup dialog using jQueryUI. I have run into problems because I'm using exactly the same blocks of HTML and JavaScript code as on the page. (The application was not designed for that and I'm not going to recode it deeply). So I have two tags with same ID attributes in the document - on the page and in popup.
To avoid this I decided to open the dialog in an iFrame. Everything works, of course, but the popup opens too slowly (it has a long list of JS and CSS files to load). They are in cache of course, but the browser seems to send requests to check them.
The question: can anything be done as a quick help? I can connect the parent window using Javascript, so can I somehow import, or clone (deep copy), for example, jQuery library? What do you think of it?
(Please don't blame me if the question is crazy)
You don't need to clone jQuery, you may use it also from within the frame.
parent.$('selector', document).someMethod()