Using HTML in a Dialog's title in jQuery UI 1.10 - jquery-ui

http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.10/#changed-title-option-from-html-to-text
jQuery UI 1.10 made it so that the dialog title can only be text (no html) to prevent scripting vulnerabilities. I'm not allowing user input to generate this title, so I would still like to use HTML, mainly to display an icon to the left of the title.
I'm going to post my solution to this problem because I haven't seen anyone else ask or answer this yet. Hopefully it will help someone else, or someone else may have a better approach.
More info as to why they did it: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/6016

This will override the function used when setting jQuery UI dialog titles, allowing it to contain HTML.
$.widget("ui.dialog", $.extend({}, $.ui.dialog.prototype, {
_title: function(title) {
if (!this.options.title ) {
title.html(" ");
} else {
title.html(this.options.title);
}
}
}));

If you hesitate to override jQuery's _title method, you can use the html, append, or similar methods on the title element at the jQuery dialog's open event, like so:
$("#element").dialog({
open: function() {
$(this).find("span.ui-dialog-title").append("<span class='title'>" + subtitle + "</span>");
}
});
The above parses the HTML correctly while bypassing jQuery's title method. And since it happens at the open event, the user experience remains seamless. Just did this on a project, and it worked beautifully.

This will modify the title after init the dialog
$('#element').dialog(options);
var dialogTitle = $('#element').closest('.ui-dialog').find('.ui-dialog-title');
dialogTitle.html('<strong>hello world</strong>');

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jquery.ui.touch.punch.js script is preventing input functionality on touch devices

It took me a little bit, but I figured out that I can't click on my inputs because of the touch.punch script I'm using to enable jquery UI drag functionality on touch devices. Anyone familiar with this script know why that might be? The form actually resides down the tree of the parent object. Does anyone know a way I can override or force through the selection? I'm going to try binding events that force focus to the input right now but maybe someone here has some insight?
JEditable + jQuery UI Sortable + jquery.ui.touch-punch
I have spent all day on this problem and I finally figured out the solution. The solution is very similar to kidwon's answer. However, I was using jeditable which dynamically creates input fields without class names. So I used this conditional statement instead of checking the class name:
//Check if element is an input or a textarea
if ($(touch.target).is("input") || $(touch.target).is("textarea")) {
event.stopPropagation();
} else {
event.preventDefault();
}
I think this is a better solution as it always uses the native functionality for any input or textarea fields.
To anyone who might wind up here with a similar situation using the very handy touch.punch hack, simply forcing the focus through on a click event will work just fine!
$('.input').bind('click', function(){
$(this).focus();
});
Folks, the other two answers here did NOT work for me, but Danwilliger's solution works; however, it's not clear from his answer how exactly to set it up in the Touch Punch JS file. For future answer-seekers, here's what to do. Again, this is Danwilliger's solution -- I'm just clarifying.
Change this section in jquery.ui.touch-punch.js (on approximately line 30):
function simulateMouseEvent (event, simulatedType) {
// Ignore multi-touch events
if (event.originalEvent.touches.length > 1) {
return;
}
event.preventDefault();
var touch = event.originalEvent.changedTouches[0],
simulatedEvent = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
To this:
function simulateMouseEvent (event, simulatedType) {
// Ignore multi-touch events
if (event.originalEvent.touches.length > 1) {
return;
}
var touch = event.originalEvent.changedTouches[0],
simulatedEvent = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
//Check if element is an input or a textarea
if ($(touch.target).is("input") || $(touch.target).is("textarea")) {
event.stopPropagation();
} else {
event.preventDefault();
}
Best of luck!
OK here's another solution if your textfield whatever HTML element is ain't focusing,scrolling, selecting words, moving text cursor around the text and whatever different scenarios might come then you may override the jquery.ui.touch.punch.js script.
I assume that your element isn't the draggable one but probably a child of it as my case was.
Put a class on your html element, for example class="useDefault".
Then go to the script file and find that part:
...
function simulateMouseEvent (event, simulatedType) {
// Ignore multi-touch events
if (event.originalEvent.touches.length > 1) {
return;
}
event.preventDefault();
var touch = event.originalEvent.changedTouches[0],
simulatedEvent = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
....
As you can probably see event.preventDefault(); assures that jquery.ui.touch.punch.js
overrides the default behaviors of the browser. To prevent that for our particular class node, make the following modifications:
if (event.originalEvent.touches.length > 1) {
return;
}
var touch = event.originalEvent.changedTouches[0],
simulatedEvent = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
//As you can see here is your class element check
if (touch.target.className === "useDefault") {
event.stopPropagation();
} else {
event.preventDefault();
}
This solution is tested with webkit browsers only and jQuery UI Touch Punch 0.2.2 release.
Hope that quick solution helps, BR
Thanks to #Danwilliger and #jeremytripp for the solution. Being that this issue has been known for years and yet has still not been worked into touch-punch author's Git repo, I forked it with the solution added here:
https://github.com/copernicus365/jquery-ui-touch-punch/blob/master/jquery.ui.touch-punch.js
I would be quite happy for the author to incorporate those few lines of a change into the original library and make this one unneeded then, but if that never happens, it's nice to have a single source file to reference.
Jacob's answer worked with a slight modification—I found that using the click event resulted in inconsistent behavior on iPad, ios9 Safari. Sometimes I'd press once on a field and it would focus, other times I had to press three times. Changing click to touchstart solved the problem for me (I also used event delegation since my form was added dynamically):
$('form').on('touchstart', 'input,textarea',function(){
$(this).focus();
});
One solution is to use a handle.
Add an icon inside and use this to drag. Then the inputs work fine.
<li><span class="move">Move</span><input...../></li>
$("#sortableList").sortable({
handle: ".move"
});
I actually tried adding the lines which Danwilliger mentioned, it did not do the trick for me.
What worked for me was
//Check if element is an input or a textarea
if ($(touch.target).is("input") || $(touch.target).is("textarea")) {
event.stopPropagation();
$(touch.target).focus();
} else {
event.preventDefault();
}
I am not really sure why the other answers posted did not work, but for anyone else out there if they have the same issue try my solution out :).
Throttlehead's solution worked for me. Simpler perhaps to just use the JQuery selectors to cover all inputs and textareas:
$('input,textarea').bind('click', function(){
$(this).focus();
});

jQuery UI in Backbone View adds elements, but doesn't respond to events

I'm building an app in which I'm using Django on the backend and jQuery UI/Backbone to build the front. I'm pulling a Django-generated form into a page with jQuery.get() inside of a Backbone View. That part works fine, but now I want to add some jQuery UI stuff to the form (e.g. a datepicker, some buttons that open dialogs, etc). So, here's the relevant code:
var InstructionForm = Backbone.View.extend({
render: function() {
var that = this;
$.get(
'/tlstats/instruction/new/',
function(data) {
var elements = $(data);
$('#id_date', elements).datepicker();
that.$el.html(elements.html());
}
};
return this;
}
});
The path /tlstats/instruction/new/ returns an HTML fragment with the form Django has generated. What's happening is that input#id_date is getting the hasDatePicker class added and the datepicker div is appended to my <body> element (both as expected), but when I click on input#id_date, nothing happens. No datepicker widget appears, no errors in the console. Why might this be happening?
Also, somewhat off-topic, but in trying to figure this problem out on my own, I've come across several code examples where people are doing stuff like:
$(function() {
$('#dialog').dialog(...);
...
});
Then later:
var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
initialize(): function() {
this.el = $('#dialog');
}
});
Isn't this defeating the purpose of Backbone, having all that jQuery UI code completely outside any Backbone structure? Or do I misunderstand the role of Backbone?
Thanks.
I think your problem is right here:
$('#id_date', elements).datepicker();
that.$el.html(elements.html());
First you bind the datepicker with .datepicker() and then you throw it all away by converting your elements to an HTML string:
that.$el.html(elements.html());
and you put that string into $el. When you say e.html(), you're taking a wrapped DOM object with event bindings and everything else and turning into a simple piece of HTML in a string, that process throws away everything (such as event bindings) that isn't simple HTML.
Either give .html() the jQuery object itself:
$('#id_date', elements).datepicker();
that.$el.html(elements);
or bind the datepicker after adding the HTML:
that.$el.html(elements);
that.$('#id_date').datepicker();

Is there any way to control the layout of the close button on a jQuery Mobile custom select menu?

I have a custom select menu (multiple) defined as follows:
<select name="DanceStyles" id="DanceStyles" multiple="multiple" data-native-menu="false">
Everything works fine except that I want to move the header's button icon over to the right AND display the Close text. (I have found some mobile users have a problem either realising what the X icon is for or they have trouble clicking it, so I want it on the right with the word 'Close' making too big to miss.) There don't seem to be any options for doing that on the select since its options apply to the select bar itself.
I have tried intercepting the create event and in there, finding the button anchor and adding a create handler for that, doing something like this (I have tried several variations, as you can see by the commenting out):
$('#search').live('pagecreate', function (event) {
$("#DanceStyles").selectmenu({
create: function (event, ui) {
$('ul#DanceStyles-menu').prev().find('a.ui-btn').button({
create: function (event, ui) {
var $btn = $(this);
$btn.attr('class', $btn.attr('class').replace('ui-btn-left', 'ui-btn-right'));
$btn.attr('class', $btn.attr('class').replace('ui-btn-icon-notext', 'ui-btn-icon-left'));
// $(this).button({ iconpos: 'right' });
// $btn.attr('class', $btn.attr('class').replace('ui-btn-icon-notext', 'ui-btn-icon-left'));
// // $btn.attr('data-iconpos', 'left');
$(this).button('refresh');
}
});
}
});
});
So I have tried resetting the button options and calling refresh (didn't work), and changing the CSS. Neither worked and I got weird formatting issues with the close icon having a line break.
Anyone know the right way to do this?
I got this to work cleanly after looking at the source code for the selectmenu plugin. It is not in fact using a button; the anchor tag is the source for the buttonMarkup plugin, which has already been created (natch) before the Create event fires.
This means that the markup has already been created. My first attempt (see my question) where I try to mangle the existing markup is too messy. It is cleaner and more reliable to remove the buttonMarkup and recreate it with my desired options. Note that the '#search' selector is the id of the JQ page-div, and '#DanceStyles' is the id of my native select element. I could see the latter being used for the id of the menu, which is why I select it first and navigate back up and down to the anchor; I couldn't see any other reliable way to get to the anchor.
$('#search').live('pagecreate', function (event) {
$("#DanceStyles").selectmenu({
create: function (event, ui) {
$('ul#DanceStyles-menu').prev().find('a.ui-btn')
.empty()
.text('Done')
.attr('class', 'ui-btn-right')
.attr("data-" + $.mobile.ns + "iconpos", '')
.attr("data-" + $.mobile.ns + "icon", '')
.attr("title", 'Done')
.buttonMarkup({ iconpos: 'left', icon: 'arrow-l' });
}
});
});
The buttonMarkup plugin uses the A element's text and class values when creating itself but the other data- attributes result from the previous buttonMarkup and have to be removed, as does the inner html that the buttonMarkup creates (child span, etc). The title attribute was not recreated, for some reason, so I set it myself.
PS If anyone knows of a better way to achieve this (buttonMarkup('remove')? for example), please let us know.
the way i achieved it was changing a bit of the jquery mobile code so that the close button always came to the right, without an icon and with the text, "Close"
not the best way i agree. but works..
I got a similar case, and I did some dirty hack about this :P
$("#DanceStyles-button").click(function() {
setTimeout(function(){
$("#DanceStyles-dialog a[role=button]").removeClass("ui-icon-delete").addClass("ui-icon-check");
$("#DanceStyles-dialog .ui-title").html("<span style='float:left;margin-left:25px' id='done'>Done</span>Dance Styles");
$("#DanceStyles-dialog .ui-title #done").click(function() {
$("#DanceStyles").selectmenu("close")
});
},1);
} );

jQueryMobile - conditionally allow hash if "page" exists?

I saw a lot of related questions, but none that directly have this issue...
I have a very large site for which I am building a jquery mobile theme. I don't have much control over the content though, and when it was built for desktop, a lot of #anchor tags were used to move to positions on the page.
I have fixed this for links on the same page with the following (jqm is a stand-in for the jquery object, I need to clean up the $/jqm references...
This is bound into the mobileinit event, and works if there are anchors on the page:
jqm('div').live('pagebeforecreate', function(e, data)
{
if(location.hash.length>0){
if($(location.hash).length>0){
if ($(location.hash).attr("data-role") != "page")
{
$.scrollTo(location.hash, 800);
};
}
}
//Check to see if there are any internal links on page
$("a[href*='#']").each(function()
{
//make sure they aren't legit jqm pages
if($(this.hash).length){
if ($(this.hash).attr("data-role") != "page")
{
//Disable jqm behavior, instead scroll down the page
$(this).click(function(event)
{
event.preventDefault();
$.scrollTo(this.hash, 800);
return false;
});
};
}
else {
$(this).attr('data-ajax','false');
}
});
});
});
So, if a user is on foo.php, and there's a link to #bar and #baz, it will nicely scroll to them, knowing that they aren't data-role="page"
But if the user is on foo.php and there's a link on that page to qux.php#bar it chokes because when the page loads, it is trying to to a changePage to #bar, but #bar on qux.php is really just an id for a regular old div.
It seems to me that something like the on-page solution above would work for this as well, but maybe I would need to bind to the actual page load instead of the pagebeforecreate?

Scripty2 : how to close dialog

I am looking for a way to close a scripty2 dialog like this :
http://mir.aculo.us/stuff/scripty2-ui/test/functional/controls_dialog.html
From outside of the dialog (i.e. with firebug command line) but my javascript mojo is a bit limited and after 30 min of going around the DOM I cannot find a way. Any hints ?
NB : scripty2 is a rewrite of script.aculo.us which uses bits of Jquery UI.
Scripty2 UI bits are really based on Prototype classes, not extensions to DOM elements, so you can't use $$() to fetch an existing dialog and close it like you might think. It must be stored in a javascript variable.
var dialog = new S2.UI.Dialog({ // The class must be saved in a
variable
content: "Consulting the server. Please wait."
});
dialog.open(); // We open
new Ajax.Request('/answers', {
onComplete: function(){
alert("Done!");
dialog.close(); // And close.
}
});
Try pasting these into Firebug:
var dialog = new S2.UI.Dialog({content: "Hello World"});
dialog.open();
dialog.close();
This is the documentation for the dialog box :
http://scripty2.com/doc/scripty2%20ui/s2/ui/dialog.html
To close all the dialogs (elements with class div.ui-dialog) on the page with no ids code would be something like this (untested):
$$('div.ui-dialog').each(function() {this.close();});

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