JavaScript - The Document Object Model
I read tutorials and pdfs on the DOM and its pissing me off coz ther not showing me or answering my questions.
Can someone please explain to me how to use the DOM. Like: 1) Can i create child nodes or parents? And if so when and how? 2) How do i look at a parent node (lets say of a list) and select a specific child (part of the list)? Thank You Similar TutorialsHey guys, this is an assignment for school. I have most of the code done but I cant figure out how to completely finish one part of the assignment. I bolded the part in which i'm having trouble with. Heres the Directions per the Instructor: Create a new HTML document that creates a listing of the days and date for the current month. 1. Create a new array, named monthArray that holds the names of the all of the months in a year, i.e. January, February… 2. Create a new array, named weekDaysArray that holds all of the days of the week, i.e. Sun, Mon, Tue,…. 3. Get today’s date by using the Date object, without initializing a value for the object and save it in a variable named todaysDate. a. Using the Date object methods, break up the value of todaysDate into variables that hold each of the pieces of the date, by assigning the values to the following variables: (see page 169 in text) i. currYr = year ii. currMon = month as an integer iii. currDate = day of the month iv. currDay = the day of the week as an integer 4. Use a document.write statement display the name of the month followed by the 4 digit year. (i.e. October 2011) a. Use currMon as the index to get the name of the month from the monthArray created in step 1. b. Use the variable currYr created in step 3. c. Include a blank line after this displayed line 5. Determine the name of the first day of the current month. a. Using the correct Date Object method, get the integer for the day of the week for the first day of the current month. (hint: you will need to pass the year, month and the day value of 1 to the Date Object to get this number) 6. Use a document.write statement to display every day of the current month on a new line in the format of the name of the day followed by the integer for the date. a. Use a while loop to keep track of the number of days written for the month. b. Use a for loop to write out the days of the week from the array created in step 2 under the name of the current month and year. Example output: October 2011 Sat 1 Sun 2 Mon 3, etc….until all 31 days are displayed. My Code: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Assignment 9</title> <script type="text/javascript"> var monthArray = new Array ("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"); var weekDaysArray = new Array ("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"); var todaysDate = new Date(); var currYr = todaysDate.getFullYear(); var currMon = todaysDate.getMonth(); var currDate = todaysDate.getDate(); var currDay = todaysDate.getDay(); document.write(monthArray[currMon] + " " +currYr); document.write("<br />"); document.write(weekDaysArray[currDay] + "<br />"); var count = 0; while (count < 31) { count++; } for(var count = 0 ; count < 31 ; count++) { document.write(weekDaysArray[count]+ "<br />"); } </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> Ok guys, i am starting from he http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/primer5.shtml Code: <script type="text/javascript"> var example example=document.lastModified document.write("This page was last modified: "+example) </script> I am having trouble understanding an actual situation which may require the above coding, can anyone give an example please? Hi, first post here. I was working on code for opening a link in a new window when clicked. I read somewhere that it's a good idea to remove all of the javascript elements from the HTML. So I pieced it together and it works. But I get the following error in IE8: Code: Message: 'document.getElementById(...)' is null or not an object Here's the relevant HTML: Code: <a href="http://www.samplesite.com" id="sampleid">Sample Text</a> And here's the relevant javascript that I put in a seperate .js file: Code: function samplefct() { window.open(this.href);return false; } window.onload = function() {document.getElementById("sampleid").onclick = samplefct; } The code does work as planned. But I'd still like to get rid of the error. Can anybody think of a different way of stating the javascript that would perform the same thing and lose the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! IB IE is throwing an error stating window.document.forms[...].elements is null or not an object. in the following code Code: var changeHandler = function() { this.form.calculateDependencies(); return true; }; for(var i = 0; i < arguments.length; ++i) { for(var j = 0, e = window.document.forms[arguments[i]].elements; j < e.length; ++j) { addEvents([e[j]], ["change", "keyup", "focus", "click", "keydown"], changeHandler); e[j].hide = hideEl; e[j].show = showEl; } (e = window.document.forms[arguments[i]]).calculateDependencies = calcDeps; e.calculateDependencies(); } } FF and Chrome seem to work ok, but it breaks in IE. What am I doing wrong here? We are building an opera extension in which we are trying to use the document object property (document.body.innerHTML) in order to obtain the source of the main page of a site. In most cases it provides us with the correct page source but for certain sites (ones that have multiple document layers), it doesn't return the top most document. For instance, for the site (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/) we would like to source for the main page that is displayed but once the entire page is loaded, the document property would display the source for another layer (https://s7.addthis.com/static/r07/sh...rev=86981&xd=1) This perhaps has to do with how opera loads the document layers in a page. We did not face any issue with any other browser How can we obtain the source of the main page (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/) using the document object in Opera ? My code is here and it works ... However, I would like my dynamic table to show on the same page as my body and not on a new blank page. I have created a DIV and try playing around with the document.getElementById('monTab').innerHTML but it's not working out for me ... What am i missing ? Regards, Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>new Script - Javascript Cours 11</TITLE> <META content="text/html"; charset="UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"> <SCRIPT type="text/javascript"> function createTable(){ var Etudiant = new Array(Number(prompt("How many Students will you put in ?",""))); document.write("<table border=\"1\">"); for (var i=0; i<Etudiant.length; i++) { Etudiant[i] = window.prompt("S'il vous plait entrez le nom d'un etudiant " + (i+1) + ".","") alert("Nice to see you "+Etudiant[i]); document.write("<td>"+Etudiant[i]+"</td>"); j = parseInt(prompt("Combien de notes voulez vous calculez ?")); for (h=0;h<j;h++){ notes[h] = parseInt(prompt("S'il vous plait entrez la "+(h+1)+" note de "+Etudiant[i])); document.write("<td>"+notes[h]+"</td>"); } document.write("<tr>"); } document.write("</tr>"); document.write("</table>"); document.getElementById('monTab').innerHTML=Etudiant; } </script> <BODY> <H1>Combien de note voulez vous cumulez ?</H1> <br> <br> <input type="button" name="btnSubmit" value="TRY IT" onclick="createTable()"> <div id="monTab" size="10"> Content should come here ...Content should come here ...Content should come here ...Content should come here ...Content should come here ...Content should come here ...Content should come here ... </div> </BODY> </HTML> Hi, I am working on a project and in that I have to create: Image-map tooltip (Mouseover) + Model window (On Click) Can anyone share the tutorials or any suggestions to start with. Thanks Vikrant Greeting....! Does anyone know that how's the JavaScript memory model work? I mean as we know that a Stack stores primitive type variables and references, a Heap stores referenced type object, what about functions? Should functions are stored at a Memory or what I said is wrong. Is there any books or resources are talking about JavaScript Memory Model? Thanks a lot!!!! Dan Hi, every time I try and alert: [ { number:0, secondnumber:0 }, { number:2, secondnumber:1 }, { number:1, secondnumber:2 } ] it just shows [object object], [object object], [object object]. Why is this and what can I do to make the record be shown as it is above in an alert? Thanks. I created a method for displaying an object's properties: Code: renderfunction = false; function showProperty (object, property) { document.write ('<td class="type">' + (typeof object[property]) + '</td>' + '<td class="name">' + property + '</td>'); document.writeln('<td class="value">' + ( (typeof object[property] != 'function') ? object[property] :( (property != 'showProperties') ? ( renderfunction ? object[property]() : ('<span class="self">NOT RENDERED</span>') ) : ('<span class="self">THIS</span>') ) ) + '</td>'); document.writeln('<td class="hasOwnProperty" >' + ( object.hasOwnProperty(property) ? "Local" : "Inherited" ) + '</td>'); if (typeof object[property] == 'function') { document.writeln ('<td class="function">' + object[property] + '</td>'); } else { document.writeln ('<td class="function"> </td>'); } } As long as renderfunction = false, the object is fine coming out of this function. However, if I change renderfunction to true, all my properties become undefined. Why isn't this working as I expect it to? How should I fix it? Thanks in advance, -Brian. I can't get any info from Firebug except that one line, uncaught exception [object Object]. The code fully worked, then I needed to make it dynamically create Sortables from the scriptaculous library based on how many X were in a table in my database, which I've done, and I'm thinking it may be a simple slight parse error of some type, I'm not too good with Javascript, because now my script barely works. I've double checked the script's source code, the PHP variables are exactly what they should be. Code: print<<<HERE Sortable.create('sortlist$box', { tag: 'img', overlap:'horizontal',constraint:false, containment: $list, dropOnEmpty: true, onChange: function(item) { var list = Sortable.options(item).element; if(changeEffect) changeEffect.cancel(); changeEffect = new Effect.Highlight('changeNotification', {restoreColor:"transparent" }); }, onDrop: function(item) { var thing=Sortable.options(item).element.identify(); var anchors = document.getElementById(thing).childNodes.length-2; if(anchors > 20){ alert('This box had 20 creatures in it already, your last action has not been saved.'); window.location.reload(); } else{ new Ajax.Request("saveImageOrder.php", { method: "post", parameters: { data: Sortable.serialize("sortlist$box") } }); } } }); HERE; $box++; } ?> }); </script> if you solve this I'll send ya $10 via paypal Hello together! I generate html code with jsp. In that jsp there a several framesets and frames. And yes i know, frames are not really up to date but it's an old program and i have to deal with it now. Anyway, in the top frameset i have an onload attribute like onload="load()". In the function load i want to access the Element.prototype object. But unfortunately typeof Element gives me "undefined". So i looked a little deeper and found that window.toString() gives me "[object]" and not as expected "[object window]" so somehow my window doesn't know that its construcor is Window. window.construcor is "undefined" as well. And i don't have access to the Element object. I really don't know where the error could be. When the page is loaded and i access the same window over the console, then everything is right. But in my function a can't get access to the objects i need. I also don't know what part of the code could be useful to post here, but maybe someone had a similar problem before? i should say that this problem only occurs in IE8. In IE9 it works perfectly. Has anyone any idea?? 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I'm writing a program that involves a network of interconnected nodes (or simply objects in my example below). It depends on being able to access properties of an object's linked objects (a bit oddly worded, sorry)... Problem is I'm not sure how to properly access those properties... see below please. <script> //This is an example of a problem im having in my own code... //I want to access the name of the object within the links array wintin the object... var objA = {name: "Object A", links: [objB, objC]}; var objB = {name: "Object B", links: [objC, objD, objE]}; var objC = {name: "Object C", links: [objB]}; var objD = {name: "Object D", links: [objE]}; var objE = {name: "Object E", links: [objD]}; //ex: I want to access the name of Object A's first link... console.log(objA.links[0].name); </script> I'm hoping to get "Object B"... But instead I get: TypeError: Result of expression 'objA.links[0]' [undefined] is not an object. Is there another way around this? Any thoughts are appreciated. Hi all, I'm stumped on finding a way in javascript to create an object factory whose instances are also object factories. In short I want something like that below, but no joy ... any clues? Code: function createClass () { return new createClass() function createClass() { return new createInstance () function createInstance () { //Default properties, values and methods which might later be extended } } } var createDoor = createClass(); var door1 = createDoor(); var door2 = createDoor(); var createChair = createClass(); var chair1 = createChair (); var chair2 = createChair (); I found this line in one of the scripts on javascript.kit <code> if(document.layers|| document.getElementById|| document.all) </code> Could someone give me an idea on why this line would be used in a code? Thank you very much Quote: menu: function( a, b ) { $( b ).observe( 'click', function( event ) { event.stop(); if( $( a ).visible() ) { $( a ).hide(); $( b ).removeClassName( 'selected' ); document.stopObserving( 'click' ); } else { $( a ).show(); $( b ).addClassName( 'selected' ); document.observe( 'click', function( e ) { if( e.target.id != a && e.target.id != b && !Element.descendantOf( e.target, $( a ) ) ) { $( a ).hide(); $( b ).removeClassName( 'selected' ); document.stopObserving( 'click' ); } }); } }); $$( '#' + b + ' > a' ).each( function( element ) { element.observe( 'click', function( event ) { $( a ).hide(); $( b ).removeClassName( 'selected' ); document.stopObserving( 'click' ); }); }); } This work's perfrect accept when i use it with others on the menu it leaves the other ones open, how do i get it to close the open one when i open a new menu.. Thanks. Hello. Is there any way to get the variable name of an object from inside the object? E.g. PHP Code: function Bla(){ this.write = function(){ document.write(<objectname>); } } obj1 = new Bla(); obj1.write(); //Outputs obj1 Here is my script: PHP Code: function myTimer(seconds, obj){ this.seconds = seconds; this.obj = obj; this.startTimer = function(){ if(this.seconds>0){ this.seconds--; this.obj.innerHTML = this.seconds; this.timer = setTimeout("Timer.start()",1000); } } } Timer = new Timer(10, obj); Timer.startTimer(); Now the problem is that the variable that contains the object must be named "Timer". This way I cannot create new timer objects with different variable names I have tried: this.timer = setTimeout("this.start()",1000); but it doesn't work. That's why it would be good to detect the variable name and instead use something like this: this.timer = setTimeout(varname+".start()",1000); I would rather not have to pass the variable name through a parameter like this: Timer1 = new Timer(10, obj, "Timer1"); Thanks in advance. I'm working on a website that will basically embed a widget/frame sent by a handler into a user's current page. The user basically adds a script tag to where they would like the HTML to be. The script tag has their settings and is basically a document.write that calls all the code that we want displayed. So here's my problem. We have a map that we need to add in a specific section, and to get the map we have to call another script tag. So we end up having a script tag (map) embedded in another script tag (the code for the widget/frame) or we end up having to document.write inside a document.write. Now this works just fine and as expected in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. However, Internet Explorer and Opera wait until the first document.write is completely finished before calling the embedded one. Of course the problem with this, is that it takes the map out of the document's flow and just appends it to the bottom left of the page. Since the rest of the page has already been called, there's no way to move the interior "map" script. Any ideas? Basically just trying to figure out how (if even possible) to render an embedded script tag in Internet Explorer and be able to place it properly. I've tried everything that I can think of, including AJAX and Google's unescape script. Any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. Or even if you've encountered a similar problem, and know that it just isn't possible in IE or Opera, that would be fine too. Thanks in advance! |