I have a (Javascript) tool which dynamically creates a div whenever the user clicks on the screen. Now, after I’ve created _newDiv, I want to assign a onmousedown event to it. This works perfectly in Firefox, but doesn’t work in IE 8. Is there any hack I can use to solve this problem? Answer Problem solved! It turns out that
Tag: dom-events
Append semicolon on pressing enter key in asp.net textbox
How to add a semicolon to the text in asp.net text box (web application), on pressing enter and move the cursor to next line? Answer Here is a solution using pure JavaScript. HTML Code Behind (onclick javascript event wire up) JavaScript
Cannot read property length of undefined
I am trying to simply check if I have an empty input text box but I get this error when I run this in Chrome: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘length’ of undefined. Here is how I go about doing it. I check for DOM readiness and then call the function: Answer The id of the input seems is not
window.close() after page redirect
I am on a work intranet only having to support IE8. I am creating a page called “watch video” which (as the name suggests) serves a video to the client. A page linking to a video will open this page in a popup with the link in the url. The person accessing the video (and a datetime stamp) is then
Javascript showing in dollars
How would I display JavaScript output numbers in dollar format? I.E. $20.00 then $2,000.00 when the number gets larger. Ok so sample code. Answer Here’s the function that I use.. Basically the same as @Senad’s except it adds commas:
How to get Events associated with DOM elements?
I have an HTML document. It is possible to get the events associated with every Element in a particular FORM element in the document using JavaScript. This way I can get jth element in ith form, But can I get the event associated with the element. There can be any number of elements in a form. I am using IE
Simple version of jQuery live function
Is it possible to get anywhere a pure Javascript function for event handler with similar functionality as jQuery’s live() ? I need to have the ability to attach events to objects not yet created but both jquery-livequery as well as jquery-events sources are not useful due to dependencies on jQuery core. Answer Event delegation is quite simple. Take this example:
How to fire mouse wheel event in Firefox with JavaScript?
I’m trying to do automated testing with WebDriver, but it currently has no ability to simulate mouse wheel events. As a workaround I’m trying to fire these events with JavaScript instead. I’m doing all my wheel experimenting on a straight HTML page right now, not within the WebDriver framework. I’m specifically trying to fire a mouse wheel event on a
Get Line co-ordinates in Javascript
I am drawing lines using Canvas (HTML 5), since lines/shapes are not stored as objects in Canvas, I cannot attach unique events to it (eg onmouseclick) I wish to attach a onmouseover event to a line, is it possible by getting to know if the mouse if over a particular line (using its 2 X and 2 Y co-ordinates) in
Problems with “this” in JavaScript namespaces and event listeners
First of all, I’m attempting to use faux namespaces in my JavaScript program like so: I’m not crazy about using this to call other functions, but up to recently, it has worked. However, I’ve added event listeners to some elements, and they interpret this to be the target object. I know I can use the full namespace instead of this