In order to set a div containing a transparent text image as the highest z-index in my document, I picked the number 10,000 and it solved my problem. Previously I had guessed with the number 3 but it had no effect. So, is there a more scientific way of figuring out what z-index is higher than that of all of
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Escaping double quotes in JavaScript onClick event handler
The simple code block below can be served up in a static HTML page but results in a JavaScript error. How should you escape the embedded double quote in the onClick handler (i.e. “xyz)? Note that the HTML is generated dynamically by pulling data from a database, the data of which is snippets of other HT…
Want to fire Dropdown SelectedIndexChanged Event in Javascript
I have dropdown on my page, I am changing selected value of dropdown from popup window using Javascript. I have some logic in dropdown SelectedIndexChanged event, so I need to fire the SelectedIndexChanged event when dropdown selection changed from Javascript. Answer This should work, if you are still getting…
Generic way to detect if html form is edited
I have a tabbed html form. Upon navigating from one tab to the other, the current tab’s data is persisted (on the DB) even if there is no change to the data. I would like to make the persistence call only if the form is edited. The form can contain any kind of control. Dirtying the form need not be
Frame Buster Buster … buster code needed
Let’s say you don’t want other sites to “frame” your site in an <iframe>: So you insert anti-framing, frame busting JavaScript into all your pages: Excellent! Now you “bust” or break out of any containing iframe automatically. Except for one small problem. As it turns…
HTML form with two submit buttons and two “target” attributes
I have one HTML <form>. The form has only one action=”” attribute. However I wish to have two different target=”” attributes, depending on which button you click to submit the form. This is probably some fancy JavaScript code, but I haven’t an idea where to begin. How could…
How to preload an ENTIRE web page
How can you preload an entire web page using JavaScript so that I can get that page cached in the users browser? I know how to preload images with JS but what I would like to do is preload the entire page. Use case: On my website, I have a google maps page with a lot of other content (images,
“Submit is not a function” error in JavaScript
Can anyone tell me what is going wrong with this code? I tried to submit a form with JavaScript, but an error “.submit is not a function” shown. See below for more details of the code: I also tried this: Both show me the same error 🙁 Answer submit is not a function means that you named your submit…
How to: Back button support “Ajax”
I have an asp.net ajax website, it full of things happen on the same page without page reload, such as sorting records, paging,… When the user go to another page in the same site and press the browser back button, how can i make the browser save the page state to return to it with the preselected option…
Change cursor type for an html document from javascript
Let’s say I have a javascript method that takes a little to long to finish to go without any user feedback at all. In my case it’s sorting the rows in a table element (all in the DOM; only takes too long if there are a lot of rows), but it might do anything. I want to show the “progress̶…