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Open a new tab in the background?

Using javascript, I want to open a new page in a different tab, but remain focused on the current tab. I know I can do it like this: However, when I do this in chrome, it flashes the new tab for a moment before switching back to the current tab. I want to avoid this. The application is a personal

Load HTML in WebView with local css and js

I am displaying a webview with a remote html content get as a string from a remote server. I store the html locally for a no connection use of my application. Moreover I also store a .js script and a .css style file locally. These files can be updated by the server. I store all these files at the following

How can I remove or replace SVG content?

I have a piece of JavaScript code which creates (using D3.js) an svg element which contains a chart. I want to update the chart based on new data coming from a web service using AJAX, the problem is that each time I click on the update button, it generates a new svg, so I want to remove the old one

JavaScript: Detect AJAX requests

Is there any way to detect global AJAX calls (particularly responses) on a web page with generic JavaScript (not with frameworks)? I’ve already reviewed the question “JavaScript detect an AJAX event”, here on StackOverflow, and tried patching in the accepted answer’s code into my appli…

Detect touchpad vs mouse in Javascript

Is there any way to detect if the client is using a touchpad vs. a mouse with Javascript? Or at least to get some reasonable estimate of the number of users that use touchpads as opposed to mice? Answer In the general case, there is no way to do what you want. ActiveX might allow you to see and examine

Random alpha-numeric string in JavaScript?

What’s the shortest way (within reason) to generate a random alpha-numeric (uppercase, lowercase, and numbers) string in JavaScript to use as a probably-unique identifier? Answer If you only want to allow specific characters, you could also do it like this: Here’s a jsfiddle to demonstrate: http:/…