I have a situation similar to this one where I have a button that I need to have no pointer events AND show a not-allowed cursor.
The answer given by #Petr Odut worked spectacularly (many thanks) except for the part about the tab index and on focus.
The solution he gave to that problem involves hard coding the tab index and on focus attributes into the specific element. However my element has its disabled class added programmatically with jQuery. Sometimes it is disabled, sometimes it isn't, so I cannot hard code those attributes.
I know I could set those attributes with jQuery at the same time I set the disabled class, but this button is not the only button I'd like to have this functionality for. I'd like some way to set the tab index/on focus globally, so that any disabled button exhibits that behavior.
So, is there a way to do that?
Note: I'm still new on stackoverflow and don't have enough reputation to ask this question directly in a comment on the post, which is why I am doing this. I apologize if asking this way is improper etiquette.
Also, much thanks Petr.
Something like this?
and pure JS version:
[...document.querySelectorAll('a.disabled')].forEach(a => {
a.setAttribute("tabindex", "-1");
a.setAttribute("onfocus", "this.blur()");
console.log(a.getAttribute("tabindex"));
})
$("a.disabled").each(function(i) {
$(this).attr('tabindex', "-1").attr('onfocus', "this.blur()");
console.log($(this).attr('tabindex'))
});
/* Adding cursor just works: */
.disabled {
cursor: not-allowed;
}
/* Makes link non-clickable: */
.disabled:active {
pointer-events: none;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Disabled link
Disabled link2
NOT Disabled link3
I have read this question: How to add image tag inside title attribute of an anchor tag? and got only one answer: "imposible". However, I saw they can do it in this page: http://truyen.vnsharing.net/Nhom/GoldenSun---yurivn-net
I viewed the page's source and got:
<a href="/Truyen/Citrus-Saburo-Uta?id=7048" title='
<img width="120" height="165" src="http://truyen4.vnsharing.net/Uploads4/Etc/5-1-2013/12456468861citrus_ch01_02-03.jpg" style="float: left; padding-right: 10px" />
<div style="float: left; width: 300px">
<a class="bigChar" href="/Truyen/Citrus-Saburo-Uta">Citrus (Saburouta)</a>
<p>
Nhân vật chính Yuzuko, ngay ngày đầu tiên chuyển trường đã đụng mặt và không mấy cảm tình với Mei - hội trưởng hội học sinh ở trường mới, trong ...
</p>
</div>'>
Citrus (Saburouta)</a>
but the image was not displayed when I put those html code on my website. So how could they do that? Are they using some js script, or something like that?
As other have mentioned you cannot place HTML content inside of "title" attribute - it has to be something custom.
For pure CSS solution (that does not involve JavaScript and mouse-over events) you can place the DIV with tooltip content next to your link, set its style to "display: none" and give your anchors style like
a:hover + div {
display: block !important
}
this will select DIV adjuncted to link and make it visible, but only when you hover over link. You can make it more granular by targeting specific links instead of all of them as the code above.
Here is the demo: http://jsfiddle.net/4WZvL/
To quote the accepted answer to the question you linked to
You need to use custom tooltip look-a-like effect with IMG insdie DIV and on mouseHover event.
They use a custom tooltip look-a-like effect.
The image tag in that title attribute is encoded. Given this, you can place any string you want in the title tag of an anchor, it doesn't mean it's a good idea at all though. You can use javascript to pull the proper image url from any data attribute you set and achieve the same effect so long as you know how to use that url in a logical way. At least that way you would be following some kind of standard and not just abusing the intention of html standards to pull off some fancy tricks.
Juhana answered your question. But to extend the notion, you can easily use data attributes, id's, and classes to set hidden or otherwise referenced html elements for whatever you need. You can hide elements with css and then unhide them with javascript if the desired effect is to pop up that block with the images from the link you provided.
Someone may provide an example if you specify your exact needs and show what you have tried to solve it yourself.
That HTML isn't valid, and although it might be possible it doesn't mean you should do it. Some browsers probably won't display the image correctly.
Use one of the thousands of Javascript tooltip plugins instead. Here's loads for jQuery: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jquery+tooltip+plugin
I have a problem and I can't figure out what exactly is causing this behavior. I cannot access my input fields and textareas on my HTML form.
Unfortunately, the JS, HTML and CSS are very large, so I can't really post it all here.
Can anybody tell me what to look for when debugging this strange behavior?
UPDATE
If I move the cursor over the input field I can see the text cursor, but when I click it the field does not get the focus. I can access the field via pressing the Tab key and if I right click on it and then click on the field I also get the focus for it.
...and nope, they don't have the disabled or readonly attributes ;-)
when i click it the field does not get the focus. i can access the field via pressing the "tab-key"
It sounds like you've cancelled the default action for the mousedown event. Search through your HTML and JS for onmousedown handlers and look for a line that reads.
return false;
This line may be stopping you from focusing by clicking.
Re: your comment, I'm assuming you can't edit the code that adds this handler? If you can, the simplest solution is to just remove the return false; statement.
is there a way to just add functionality to the event-trigger by not overwriting it?
That depends on how the handler is attached. If it's attached using the traditional registration method, e.g. element.onmousedown, then you could create a wrapper for it:
var oldFunc = element.onmousedown;
element.onmousedown = function (evt) {
oldFunc.call(this, evt || window.event);
}
Since this "wrapper" doesn't return false, it will not cancel the default action (focusing) for the element. If your event is attached using an advanced registration method, such as addEventListener or attachEvent then you could only remove the event handler using the function name/reference and reattach it with a wrapped function similar to the above. If it's an anonymous function that's added and you can't get a reference to it, then the only solution would be to attach another event handler and focus the element manually using the element.focus() method.
I had this problem too. I used the disableSelection() method of jQuery UI on a parent DIV which contained my input fields. In Chrome the input fields were not affected but in Firefox the inputs (and textareas as well) did not get focused on clicking. The strange thing here was, that the click event on these inputs worked.
The solution was to remove the disableSelection() method for the parent DIV.
Use the onclick="this.select()" attribute for the input tag.
I know this is a very old thread, but this just happened to me recently; took me a while to figure it out.
This same issue can be caused by putting 'input' elements inside of pair of 'label' tags.
In my case, I had intended to create a pair of 'div' tags but instead I accidently created a pair of 'label' tags, then inserted some text input fields 'input type="text"..' using DOM.
It displayed normally on the screen, but when I clicked on any of the text fields, the cursor kept jumping back to the first 'input' and really acting erratic.
Took me a while to figure this out because this behavior is subtle, and not at all what I would have expected from making this kind of mistake.
bsnider
I've been struggling with the same problem a while ago. I was using the jquery.layout plugin in a modal jquery-ui dialog and I couldn't access any of the fields in it.
It appeared to be a z-index problem (some div was over my input fields, so I couldn't click them). You should check it out and try changing the z-index value of your input fields.
This happens sometimes when there are unbalanced <label> tags in the form.
I had this problem too, and in my case I found that the color of the font was the same color of the background, so it looked like nothing happened.
I have read all the answers above, and some directed me to the problem, but not to the solution for the problem.
The root cause of the problem is disableSelection(). It is causing all the problems, but removing it is not a solution, as (at least in 2016 or slightly before), on touch-screen devices, you "have" to use this if you want to be able to move objects with jQuery.
The solution was to leave the disableSelection() to the sortable element, but also add a binding action just above:
$('#your_selector_id form').bind('mousedown.ui-disableSelection selectstart.ui-disableSelection', function(event) {
event.stopImmediatePropagation();
})
The form in the jQuery element is just to stop propagation on the form, as you might need propagation on some elements.
This can occur in bootstrap if you do not place your columns inside a <div class ='row'>. The column floats are not cleared and you could get the next column overlying the previous, hence clicks wont hit the dom elements where you expect.
If you are faced this problem while using canvas with DOM on mobile devices, the answer of Ashwin G worked for me perfectly, but I did it through javascript
var element = document.getElementById("myinputfield");
element.onclick = element.select();
After, everything worked flawlessly.
I had the similar issue - could not figure out what was the reason, but I fixed it using following code. Somehow it could not focus only the blank inputs:
$('input').click(function () {
var val = $(this).val();
if (val == "") {
this.select();
}
});
For Anyone Using Electron
For anyone having this issue with Electron specifically, the problem for me was using alert before selecting the input fields. Apparently alert and confirm aren't entirely supported by Electron, and therefore can mess up input fields. If you'd still like to use them, refer to this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38859135/12293837
I had this problem because of this code:
$("#table tbody tr td:first-child").bind("mousedown", function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$(this).parents('tr').removeClass('draggable');
});
I resolved it by removing
e.preventDefault();
New code:
$("#table tbody tr td:first-child").bind("mousedown", function(){
$(this).parents('tr').removeClass('draggable');
});
Just in case someone else is looking for this answer, we had a similar problem and solved it by changing the z-index of the input tags. Apparently some other divs had extended too far and were overlapping the input boxes.
I had this problem for over 6 months, it may be the same issue. Main symptom is that you can't move the cursor or select text in text inputs, only the arrow keys allow you to move around in the input field. Very annoying problem, especially for textarea input fields. I have this html that gets populated with 1 out of 100s of forms via Javascript:
<div class="dialog" id="alert" draggable="true">
<div id="head" class="dialog_head">
<img id='icon' src='images/icon.png' height=20 width=20><img id='icon_name' src='images/icon_name.png' height=15><img id='alert_close_button' class='close_button' src='images/close.png'>
</div>
<div id="type" class="type"></div>
<div class='scroll_div'>
<div id="spinner" class="spinner"></div>
<div id="msg" class="msg"></div>
<div id="form" class="form"></div>
</div>
</div>
Apparently 6 months ago I had tried to make the popup draggable and failed, breaking text inputs at the same time. Once I removed draggable="true" it works again!
I'm using JQuery UI and Bootstrap so I faced this issue and I think it is a conflict between the two as in normal case the textarea or the input filed is editable by nature but I made this solution after testing all the above answers but none solve the cross browser support for all major browsers, but I solved it and I like to share my solution you can use it on input text and textarea
(Tested on Desktop: IE (All Versions), Chrome, Safari, Windows Edge, Firefox, Visual Studio Cordova Ripple Viewer on Windows & Visual Studio Cordova Windows 10 Store App)
(Tested on Mobile: Chrome, Firefox, Android Internet Browser & Visual Studio Cordova App on Android & Visual Studio Cordova Windows 8 + 8.1 + 10 Phone App)
This is the HTML Code:
<textarea contenteditable id="textarea"></textarea>
This is The CSS Code:
textarea {
-webkit-user-select: text !important;
-khtml-user-select: text !important;
-moz-user-select: text !important;
-ms-user-select: text !important;
user-select: text !important;
/*to make sure that background color and text color is not the same (from the answers above)*/
background-color:#fff !important;
color:#733E27 !important;
}
This Is The JQuery Code On Document Ready
$("textarea").click(function() {
setTimeout(function(){
$("textarea").focus();
//add this if you are using JQuery UI (From The Solutions Above)
$("textarea").enableSelection();
var val = $("textarea").val();
if (val.charAt(val.length-1) !== " " && val.length !== 1) {
alert(val.length);
val += " ";
}
$("textarea").val(val);
}, 0);
});
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') !== -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome') !== -1) {
//alert('Its Safari or chrome');
$("textarea").onfocus(function(e) {
setTimeout(function(){
var end;
if ($("textarea").val === "") {
end = 0;
} else {
end = $("textarea").val.length;
}
if ($("textarea").setSelectionRange) {
var range = document.getElementById('textarea').createTextRange();
if (range) {
setTimeout(range, 0, [end, end]);
} else { // IE style
var aRange = document.getElementById('textarea').createTextRange();
aRange.collapse(true);
aRange.moveEnd('character', end);
aRange.moveStart('character', end);
aRange.select();
}
}
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}, 0);
});
}
You can test it on my web application at www.gahwehsada.com
When you say
and nope, they don't have attributes: disabled="disabled" or readonly ;-)
Is this through viewing your html, the source code of the page, or the DOM?
If you inspect the DOM with Chrome or Firefox, then you will be able to see any attributes added to the input fields through javasript, or even an overlaying div
I just found another possible reason for this issue, some input textboxes were missing the closing "/", so i had <input ...> when the correct form is <input ... />. That fixed it for me.
In my case it was Bootstrap popup in opened state.
Text input was in another calendar popup on top of Bootstrap one, input got its focus back after removing tabindex="-1" attribute from Bootstrap modal.
iPhone6 chrome
Problem for me was placing the input field inside <label> and <p>
like this :
<label>
<p>
<input/>
</p>
</label>
I changed them to
<div>
<div>
<input/>
</div>
</div>
And it works for me .
After check this answer, Please check other answers in this page, this issue may have different reasons
Its worth adding that having the property pointer-events:none on your input label will also produce this unwanted behaviour.
It might be because of invalid for attribute in the label attribute
<input type="text" id="your_name" name="your_name">
<label for="your_name">Your Name</label>
<input type="text" id="your_email" name="your_name">
<label for="your_name">Your Name</label>
I have tried to update the for attribute in the second label to your_email instead of your_name and its works for me
<label for="your_email">Your Name</label>
This will also happen anytime a div ends up positioned over controls in another div; like using bootstrap for layout, and having a "col-lg-4" followed by a "col-lg=8" misspelling... the right orphaned/misnamed div covers the left, and captures the mouse events. Easy to blow by that misspelling, - and = next to each other on keyboard. So, pays to examine with inspector and look for 'surprises' to uncover these wild divs.
Is there an unseen window covering the controls and blocking events, and how can that happen? Turns out, fatfingering = for - with bootstrap classnames is one way...
I had the same problem. I eventually figured it out by inspecting the element and the element I thought I had selected was different element. When I did that I found there was a hidden element that had z-index of 9999, once I fixed that my problem went away.
the problem for me was that I was using class="modal fade", I changed it for class="modal hide". That solved the issue.
I had the same problem. Tore my hair for hours trying all sorts of solutions. Turned out to be an unclosed a tag.Try validate your HTML code, solution could be an unclosed tag causing issues
I had this issue using Bootstrap + contact form 7.
I for some reason I put the label as the container of the form and that was the issue for not being selectable on mobile.
<label>
<contact form>...</contact form>
</label>
Seemed to break all inputs except the first input and the submit.
I had the same issue and the fix was to remove the placeholders and I changed the design of the form to use labels instead of placeholders...
I had this issue caused by a sort of overlap of a div element with a bootstrap class ="row" over a "brother" div element with the class="col", the first hid the focus of the second div element.
I solved taking outer the div row element from that level of the divs' tree and so rebalancing bootstrap logical hierarchy based on the row and col classes.
I had this same issue just now in React.
I figured out that in the Router, Route. We cannot do this as it causes this issue of closing the mobile keyboard.
<Route
path = "some-path"
component = {props => <MyComponent />}
/>
Make sure and use the render instead in this situation
<Route
path = "some-path"
render = {props => <MyComponent />}
/>
Hope this helps someone
Daniel
I'm trying to create a couple of buttons above a textarea to insert some HTML code -- a VERY poor-man's HTML editor. I have a couple of INPUT elements, and I'm using jQuery to set a click handler that will call's jQuery's append() or html() or text() functions.
The handler fires, it shows a debug alert(), but the text I'm trying to append doesn't show up in the textarea. When I inspect the textarea in Firebug, I see the text I'm appending as a child of the textarea -- but it's dimmed, as when an element's style is set to display:none. But Firebug's CSS inspector doesn't show any change to the display or visibility properties.
When I set the click handler to 'append()', and then click multiple times, in Firebug I see the text being added over and over again -- but each new chunk is still invisible. If I choose 'Edit HTML' in Firebug and then type some chars next to the appended text, the entire text block -- the text added by jQuery and the stuff I added in Firebug -- suddenly appear.
This also happens if I don't use a click handler, but call my append function using an inline handler like onclick="javascript:insert('bold');"
Anyone have any idea why the appended text is not displayed?
Here's the relevant code:
The HTML:
<input type='button' id='bold' value='B' onclick='javascript:insert("bold")' />
<textarea name='PersonalGreeting' id='PersonalGreeting'>default text</textarea>
The Javascript:
function insert( cmd ) {
switch ( cmd ) {
case 'bold':
$('#PersonalGreeting').append('<b>bold text here</b>');
break;
}
}
I would guess that jQuery is trying to append HTML DOM elements to the textarea.
Try using the val method to get and set the textarea's value, like this:
$('#PersonalGreeting').val($('#PersonalGreeting').val() + '<b>bold text here</b>');
The basic problem is that you can't put HTML inside a <textarea>. In fact, you can't append HTML elements to one at all. You could use the .val() method to change the text shown inside, but that won't make it bold. That will just make it have <b> showing as part of the text.
An off-the-shelf WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE is free and easy to implement. Rather than reinvent the wheel (which is a lot harder than it might look), try an existing wheel out.
SLaks and VoteyDisciple are correct. You're usage of append is faulty as you are perceiving it as a string function.
From http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/append
Append content to the inside of every
matched element. This operation is the
best way to insert elements inside, at
the end, of all matched elements. It
is similar to doing an appendChild to
all the specified elements, adding
them into the document.
Reinventing the wheel on this one is likely more headache than its worth unless this is an attempt to create a superior, competing product or for your own experimentation.
Also, I would shy away from use of obtrusive JavaScript as you have shown in your example with onclick='javascript:insert("bold")' embedded in the input element. Instead, you'll have a more elegant solution with something like the following:
HTML
<input type="button" value="B" class="editor-command" >
<input type="button" value="I" class="editor-command" >
<input type="button" value="U" class="editor-command" >
JavaScript (not tested)
$(document).ready(function() {
var textarea = $('#PersonalGreeting')
$(".editor-command").each(function(i, node) {
textarea.val(textarea.val() + '<$>text here</$>'.replace(/\$/g, node.value);
});
});
If the main issue is the textarea not being visible, I would try this:
$('#PersonalGreeting').append('<b>bold text here</b>').show();
Might be worth a shot.
edit: In the vain of not trying to reinvent the wheel, I've had success with WYMEditor
You could do this:
$('#PersonalGreeting').append('[b]bold text here[/b]');
But that won't actually render the text as bold. To be honest I'm not actually sure how to render text as bold inside a textarea, I imainge some js trickery.