I want to overlay a div over the viewport when the user drags a file onto the window. However, I’m having trouble with the event propagation. When I set the overlay to display: block it appears to fire off a dragleave event and then another dragenter and then another dragleave again, so it’s alway…
Tag: jquery-events
Avoid change of a select input
Is there a way of not letting users change a select input?. I have a form with an already selected option, and I want to aware users that they are doing that and I was trying to do this. I have a select with id=users: One of the problems I have is that it only happens if I click on
jQuery hide dropdown when clicked anywhere but menu
I’m trying to make it so that my dropdown menu shows when you click a button, and hides when you click anywhere except the dropdown menu. I have some code working, as far as not closing when you click the menu, however when you click the document when the menu is closed, it shows the menu, so it continu…
How to fire event s in a dynamically generated List in jQuery
I have created a list dynamically using JavaScript and I want to invoke click event as go in normally HTML generated list. This is what I have tried so far but I could not fire a single event. Can any one help? Answer Try: $(‘.addnew’).delegate(‘li’, ‘click’, function () { …
Catch scrolling event on overflow:hidden element
Any insights on how to catch a scrolling event on a element that has overflow:hidden? I would like to scroll in a column without showing a scrollbar to the user. Answer This is actually a somewhat indepth process. What I do is set global flags when users mouse enters and leaves the element that you want to sc…
Registering keyup on Ctrl when used to change tabs in JQuery
I have create a wysiwyg HTML editor. When the user holds down keys down Ctrl, it sets a variable ctrlPressed to true. When the key up event is fired with the Ctrl keycode, then ctrlPressed is set to false. However, when the user presses Ctrl+PgUp to change tabs, there is no way for ctrlPressed to be set to fa…
Redirect User On Enter Key Based on Text Field Value
I’m trying to simulate some software and I need the user to be able to enter some text into a field and then direct them to another page based on that text. I’ve created the code below but it doesn’t seem to work. I’m using IE 7 and it just seems to refresh the page, it won’t act…
jQuery input value change detection
How to detect was input value changed or not on blur event? For example every input field have default value (can be empty), after current input loses it’s focus we should determine, have the value been changed. How to do this? Answer compare the value and the defaultValue
Input Fires Keypress Event Twice
This question has been asked/answered (mostly) before, BUT I’ve tried three things to stop the event from bubbling but nothing has worked: (return false should take care of the other two, correct?) Here’s the html: And the JS (UPDATE CLEANED UP): }); I left the redundant stoppers in there but real…
How to show a linked page as the content of a table element in my case?
I have made a HTML table. Suppose I have a link, for example, link to www.nokia.com , can I show the linked page as a content of the table element when “click me” has clicked? and how to do that? Answer Maybe you could use <iframe> and some jQuery for the job. Example: jQuery: HTML: