I know that document.URL can not be set, while location.href can. But the Document indicates: URL is a replacement for the DOM Level 0 location.href property. So when would we use document.URL? Answer You can get the document.URL, but you can not set it. You can both get and set the location.href. In some web…
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Table Row’s OnClick Event is Propagated to all Contained Elements?
I’ve run into some interesting code in our legacy application running under Internet Explorer. Consider the following: So, here’s where I’m stumped. When the user selects an item from the SELECT element, the ONCLICK event is firing, and the following are true: this evaluates to Window Window…
using javascript’s .insertBefore to insert item as last child
I so miss jQuery. I’m working on a project where I need to get my hands dirty with good ‘ol plain Javascript again. I have this scenario: Via javascript, I want to be able to insert a new node before or after any of those children. While javascript has an insertBefore, there is no insertAfter. Ins…
What is the DOM and BOM in JavaScript?
What is the DOM and BOM in JavaScript? If someone could explain these in layman terms it would be great! I like to get a deeper understanding of these. Answer The BOM (Browser Object Model) consists of the objects navigator, history, screen, location and document which are children of window. In the document …
Why is JavaScript sending an element to my event handler, when that element has no event?
This html: This JavaScript takes the span containing the image and text, then makes it clickable: If I click on the “Link text,” then the obj in myEvent() is the span. If I click on the image, then the obj is the image element! The image itself has no event. So why isn’t it always the span t…
Remove all child elements of a DOM node in JavaScript
How would I go about removing all of the child elements of a DOM node in JavaScript? Say I have the following (ugly) HTML: And I grab the node I want like so: How could I remove the children of foo so that just <p id=”foo”></p> is left? Could I just do: or should I be using some combin…
Defer JavaScript execution till the content has been added to Document
I am trying to load some content into a page using Ajax. The html that is loaded contains some JavaScript code. Even though the code is wrapped within $(document).ready, it gets executed before the content is inserted into the document, because the parent document’s Dom is ready by the time the content …
Append Style to DOM not Replacing Existing
How can I append style element to DOM without eliminating existing style on the item (eg color, text-align, etc)? The event calls the function, but the problem is ‘Style’ gets completely replaced with the single item instead. I have simple code triggered on the event: Answer Which browser are you …
Firing DOM mouse events programmatically from JavaScript
Is it possible to programmatically fire mouse events in DOM? My sample case would be the following: Whenever the user clicks the div over an iframe, I would like to somehow propagate the event to the iframe, too. (Here we assume that the iframe src is in the same domain.) Answer Whilst you can inject events i…
jQuery: how to change tag name?
jQuery: how to change tag name? For example: I need Yes, I can Create DOM element <div> Copy tr content to div Remove tr from dom But can I make it directly? PS: results in DOMException. Answer You can replace any HTML markup by using jQuery’s .replaceWith() method. example: http://jsfiddle.net/JH…