Looking for a way to parse key pairs out of the hash/fragment of a URL into an object/associative array with JavaScript/JQuery Answer Check out: jQuery BBQ jQuery BBQ is designed for parsing things from the url (query string or fragment), and goes a bit farther to simplify fragment-based history. This is the jQuery plugin Yarin was looking for before he
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How to get the tag HTML with JavaScript / jQuery?
Using $(‘html’).html() I can get the HTML within the <html> tag (<head>, <body>, etc.). But how can I get the actual HTML of the <html> tag (with attributes)? Alternatively, is it possible to get the entire HTML of the page (including doctype, <html>, etc.) with jQuery (or plain old JavaScript)? Answer The simplest way to get the html element natively
How to detect if the pressed key will produce a character inside an text-box?
I have a regular text-box: I use jQuery to handle key-related events: The user focuses on a text-box and presses various keys on his keyboard (the usual ones: letters, numbers, SHIFT, BACKSPACE, SPACE, …). I need to detect when the user presses a key that is going to increase the length of the text-box value. For example, the “A” key
Javascript Optimization, where to begin?
I’ve started work recently at a new company and they have an existing application with 1000s of lines of Javascript code. The baseline contains dozens of JS files with easily over 10,000 custom lines of code, they also use multiple 3rd party libraries such as Jquery, Livequery, JQTransform and others. One of the major complaints they have been receiving from
How to jump to top of browser page
I’m writing a modal popup and I need the browser to jump to the top of the screen when the open modal button is pressed. Is there a way to scroll the browser to the top using jQuery? Answer You can set the scrollTop, like this: Or if you want a little animation instead of a snap to the top:
HTML5 Video Dimensions
I’m trying to get the dimensions of a video of which I’m overlaying onto a page with JavaScript, however it is returning the dimensions of the poster image instead of the actual video as it seems it’s being calculated before the video is loaded. Answer Spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#the-video-element
How can I change an element’s text without changing its child elements?
I’d like to update element’s text dynamically: I’m new to jQuery, so this task seems to be quite challenging for me. Could someone point me to a function/selector to use? If it is possible, I’d like to do it without adding a new container for the text I need to change. Answer Mark’s got a better solution using jQuery, but
How to find the key code for a specific key
What’s the easiest way to find the keycode for a specific key press? Are there any good online tools that just capture any key event and show the code? I want to try and find the key codes for special keys on a mobile device with a web browser, so an online tool would be great. Answer Here’s your online
Synchronizing loading js files with ajax calls and loading js files with tag
core.js: me.js CASE 1: CASE 2: The problem is that for case 1 I get an alert, as I should , but for case 2, no alert… So the question is: there is a load event for the <script> tag? Qhat can I use to synchronize the files to work on case 2 (while debugging in IE8, I noticed that
Checking if a URL is broken in Javascript
This question has been posted on Stack before, but none so specific as to what I’m trying to understand. The simplest way to check if a URL is corrrect to send a http Head request. But how do you use that to specify the URL ? I found this in a previous post : But it doesn’t seem to run