I'm using best_in_place to do in-page editing of a table of data
in a ruby-on-rails app. The in-place editing works, but I have a
corner case that fails. A pair of items in the row (device_name,
generic_name) must be unique. If they are not unique, the server-side
code passes back a set of names with a changed generic_name to make
the pair unique. I use the following coffeescript to update the
display.
jQuery ->
$('.best_in_place[data-bip-object="full_dpoint"]').bind(
"ajax:success", (event, d) ->▫
return if ! d?
data = JSON.parse(d)
if ! data.dpoint?
return
else
item_to_edit = "#best_in_place_full_dpoint_" + data.dpoint.dpoint_id + "_generic_name"
$(item_to_edit).text(data.dpoint.generic_name)
)
This code works (IE it properly updates the page with the server-supplied
new generic name) , but if I then click back in the 'generic_name'
field, (to go into edit mode), the default edit text changes back
to what it was at the very beginning (page download time). I have
experimented with setting many different page elements to the new
generic name, including all of the following:
$(item_to_edit).attr('data-bip-original-content', data.dpoint.generic_name)
$(item_to_edit).attr('data-bip-value', data.dpoint.generic_name)
$(item_to_edit).attr('original-value', data.dpoint.generic_name)
$(item_to_edit).attr('bipValue', data.dpoint.generic_name)
$(item_to_edit).attr('bipvalue', data.dpoint.generic_name)
All to no avail. I have poked around in the dom trying to find where the original
value might be stored, but haven't found anything other than these.
Any ideas?
TIA.
Leonard
Try it
javascript:
$(document).ready(function () {
/* Activating Best In Place */
jQuery(".best_in_place").best_in_place();
var old_value;
$(document).on('change', '.not_abort', function (e) {
console.log(e.target.value);
old_value = e.target.value;
});
$(document).on('ajax:error', '.not_abort', function (e) {
console.log(e);
e.target.innerHTML = old_value;
$(e.target).data('bipOriginalContent', old_value);
});
})
view:
best_in_place #device_name, :email, class: 'not_abort'
Related
As the title suggests, my main objective is to render a dynamic scss(.erb) file after an ajax call.
assets/javascripts/header.js
// onChange of a checkbox, a database boolean field should be toggled via AJAX
$( document ).ready(function() {
$('input[class=collection_cb]').change(function() {
// get the id of the item
var collection_id = $(this).parent().attr("data-collection-id");
// show a loading animation
$("#coll-loading").removeClass("vhidden");
// AJAX call
$.ajax({
type : 'PUT',
url : "/collections/" + collection_id + "/toggle",
success : function() {
// removal of loading animation, a bit delayed, as it would be too fast otherwise
setTimeout(function() {
$("#coll_loading").addClass("vhidden");
}, 300);
},
});
});
});
controller/collections_controller.rb
def toggle
# safety measure to check if the user changes his collection
if current_user.id == Collection.find(params[:id]).user_id
collection = Collection.find(params[:id])
# toggle the collection
collection.toggle! :auto_add_item
else
# redirect the user to error page, alert page
end
render :nothing => true
end
All worked very smooth when I solely toggled the database object.
Now I wanted to add some extra spices and change the CSS of my 50+ li's accordingly to the currently selected collections of the user.
My desired CSS looks like this, it checks li elements if they belong to the collections and give them a border color if so.
ul#list > li[data-collections~='8'][data-collections~='2']
{
border-color: #ff2900;
}
I added this to my controller to generate the []-conditions:
def toggle
# .
# .
# toggle function
# return the currently selected collection ids in the [data-collections]-format
#active_collections = ""
c_ids = current_user.collections.where(:auto_add_item => true).pluck('collections.id')
if c_ids.size != 0
c_ids.each { |id| #active_collections += "[data-collections~='#{id}']" }
end
# this is what gets retrieved
# #active_collections => [data-collections~='8'][data-collections~='2']
end
now I need a way to put those brackets in a scss file that gets generated dynamically.
I tried adding:
respond_to do |format|
format.css
end
to my controller, having the file views/collections/toggle.css.erb
ul#list<%= raw active_collections %> > li<%= raw active_collections %> {
border-color: #ff2900;
}
It didn't work, another way was rendering the css file from my controller, and then passing it to a view as described by Manuel Meurer
Did I mess up with the file names? Like using css instead of scss? Do you have any ideas how I should proceed?
Thanks for your help!
Why dynamic CSS? - reasoning
I know that this should normally happen by adding classes via JavaScript. My reasoning to why I need a dynamic css is that when the user decides to change the selected collections, he does this very concentrated. Something like 4 calls in 3 seconds, then a 5 minutes pause, then 5 calls in 4 seconds. The JavaScript would simply take too long to loop through the 50+ li's after every call.
UPDATE
As it turns out, JavaScript was very fast at handling my "long" list... Thanks y'all for pointing out the errors in my thinking!
In my opinion, the problem you've got isn't to do with CSS; it's to do with how your system works
CSS is loaded static (from the http request), which means when the page is rendered, it will not update if you change the CSS files on the server
JS is client side and is designed to interact with rendered HTML elements (through the DOM). This means that JS by its nature is dynamic, and is why we can use it with technologies like Ajax to change parts of the page
Here's where I think your problem comes in...
Your JS call is not reloading the page, which means the CSS stays static. There is currently no way to reload the CSS and have them render without refreshing (sending an HTTP request). This means that any updating you do with JS will have to include per-loaded CSS
As per the comments to your OP, you should really look at updating the classes of your list elements. If you use something like this it should work instantaneously:
$('li').addClass('new');
Hope this helps?
If I understood your feature correctly, actually all you need can be realized by JavaScript simply, no need for any hack.
Let me organize your feature at first
Given an user visiting the page
When he checks a checkbox
He will see a loading sign which implies this is an interaction with server
When the loading sign stopped
He will see the row(or 'li") he checked has a border which implies his action has been accepted by server
Then comes the solution. For readability I will simplify your loading sign code into named functions instead of real code.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('input[class=collection_cb]').change(function() {
// Use a variable to store parent of current scope for using later
var $parent = $(this).parent();
// get the id of the item
var collection_id = $parent.attr("data-collection-id");
show_loading_sign();
// AJAX call
$.ajax({
type : 'PUT',
url : "/collections/" + collection_id + "/toggle",
success : function() {
// This is the effect you need.
$parent.addClass('green_color_border');
},
error: function() {
$parent.addClass('red_color_border');
},
complete: function() {
close_loading_sign(); /*Close the sign no matter success or error*/
}
});
});
});
Let me know if my understanding of feature is correct and if this could solve the problem.
What if, when the user toggles a collection selection, you use jquery change one class on the ul and then define static styles based on that?
For example, your original markup might be:
ul#list.no_selection
li.collection8.collection2
li.collection1
And your css would have, statically:
ul.collection1 li.collection1,
ul.collection2 li.collection2,
...
ul.collection8 li.collection8 {
border-color: #ff2900;
}
So by default, there wouldn't be a border. But if the user selects collection 8, your jquery would do:
$('ul#list').addClass('collection8')
and voila, border around the li that's in collection8-- without looping over all the lis in javascript and without loading a stylesheet dynamically.
What do you think, would this work in your case?
In the ASP MVC page I'm currently working on, the values of three input fields determine the value of a fourth. Zip code, state code, and something else called a Chanel Code will determine what the value of the fourth field, called the Territory Code, will be.
I just started learning jQuery a couple weeks ago, so I would first think you could put a .change event that checks for values in the other two fields and, if they exists, call a separate method that compares the three and determines the Territory code. However, I'm wondering if there is a more elegant way to approach this since it seems like writing a lot of the same code in different places.
You can bind a callback to multiple elements by specifying multiple selectors:
$(".field1, .field2, .field3").click(function() {
return field1 +
field2 +
field3;
});
If you need to perform specific actions depending on which element was clicked, another option would be to create a function which performs the actual computation and then invoke that from each callback.
var calculate = function() {
return field1 +
field2 +
field3;
};
And then invoke this function when on each click:
$(".field1").click(function() {
// Perform field1-specific logic
calculate();
});
$(".field2").click(function() {
// Perform field2-specific logic
calculate();
});
// etc..
This means that you do not repeat yourself.
This works for me
jQuery(document).on('scroll', ['body', window, 'html', document],
function(){
console.log('multiple')
}
);
Adding another possibility, just in cased this may help someone. This version should work on dynamically created fields.
$("#form").on('change', '#Field1, #Field2, #Field3', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
console.log('something changed');
});
I am loading two MVC Partial Views in jQuery UI dialog using following code for editing and adding a record:
$.get(url, function(data)
{
dialogDiv.html(data);
var $form = $(formid);
$form.unbind();
$form.data("validator", null);
$.validator.unobtrusive.parse(document);
var dat = $form.data("unobtrusiveValidation");
var opts = dat ? dat.options || '' : '';
$form.validate(opts);
//THIS FUNCTION ADDS PLUGINS ETC.
runEditCreateStartScripts();
dialogDiv.dialog('open');
});
Following is the function that wires-up chosen functionality.
function runEditCreateStartScripts(){
$("select.chzn-select").chosen(
{
no_results_text: "no match",
allow_single_deselect: true
});
}
Everything is perfect on first call. After opening one dialog say edit a few times everything is broken. There is only hyperlink available in place of chosen stuff. This also happens if I open one dialog say add and then second dialog. The bindings and other functionality from first one (add) is gone.
Any insights on why this might be happening?
The problem that caused my issue was that the modals I was loading via AJAX had inputs with the SAME ID as an input field that was already on the page (using Django that has generic ID generators for model fields). This caused collision between the two inputs when re-triggering .chosen() on the selector. When I made the ID fields unique, all worked as expected.
Hope this would have helped.
I'm trying to dynamically populate a select tag at load time (latest jQM version) using a custom template filling function.
If the fn is called in the "pagebeforechange" event, the select tag is properly initialized. Since this event is called on every page transition, I thought of moving the fn to the 'pageinit' event. This does not work, presumably because the DOM is not yet fully available. How can I coerce jQM to inject content in a page only once? Currently, I am using a kludge. There surely must be a smarter way. Thanks for any suggestions.
$(document).bind('pageinit', function () {
InitSelTagTest("#selActTag", "tplTag"); // Does not work.
});
$(document).bind("pagebeforechange", function (e, data) {
if ($("#selActTag").children().size() === 0) {
InitSelTagTest("#selActTag", "tplTag"); // Kludge, but it works
}
});
function InitSelTagTest(el,tpl) { // Append all tags to element el
var lstAllTags = JSON.parse($("#hidTag").val()); // Create tag array
// Retrieve html content from template.
var cbeg = "//<![" + "CDATA[", cend = "//]" + "]>";
var rslt = tmpl(tpl, { ddd: lstAllTags }).replace(cbeg, ").replace(cend,");
$(el).html(rslt).trigger("create"); // Add to DOM.
}
EDIT
In response to Shenaniganz' comment, it seems that the "pagebeforecreate" event could do the trick ie.
$("#pgAct").live("pagebeforecreate", function () {
// Populate tag select. Works. Traversed only once.
InitSelTag("#selActTag", "tplTag");
});
I'm not sure I fully understand your question but I'll throw a few things out there and you let me know if I can extend further.
To make something trigger only once on page load you can try to implement a regular JQuery $(document).ready(function(){}) aka $(function(){}) for the exact reason why JQuery Mobile users are told not to use it. It triggers only once on DOM load. Further pages don't trigger it because they're being switched via Ajax.
Other than that, on regular dynamic content loading you take a look at the following example I put together for someone else earlier:
http://jsbin.com/ozejif/1/edit
I am using the sortable widget to re-order a list of items. After an item is dragged to a new location, I kick off an AJAX form post to the server to save the new order. How can I undo the sort (e.g. return the drag item to its original position in the list) if I receive an error message from the server?
Basically, I only want the re-order to "stick" if the server confirms that the changes were saved.
Try the following:
$(this).sortable('cancel');
I just encountered this same issue, and for the sake of a complete answer, I wanted to share my solution to this problem:
$('.list').sortable({
items:'.list:not(.loading)',
start: function(event,ui) {
var element = $(ui.item[0]);
element.data('lastParent', element.parent());
},
update: function(event,ui) {
var element = $(ui.item[0]);
if (element.hasClass('loading')) return;
element.addClass('loading');
$.ajax({
url:'/ajax',
context:element,
complete:function(xhr,status) {
$(this).removeClass('loading');
if (xhr.status != 200) {
$($(this).data('lastParent')).append(this);
}
},
});
}
});
You'll need to modify it to suit your codebase, but this is a completely multithread safe solution that works very well for me.
I'm pretty sure that sortable doesn't have any undo-last-drop function -- but it's a great idea!
In the mean time, though, I think your best bet is to write some sort of start that stores the ordering, and then on failure call a revert function. I.e. something like this:
$("list-container").sortable({
start: function () {
/* stash current order of sorted elements in an array */
},
update: function () {
/* ajax call; on failure, re-order based on the stashed order */
}
});
Would love to know if others have a better answer, though.