jQuery autoellipsis plugin - doesn't work when updating the content - jquery-plugins

I am using the following jQuery plugin :
http://pvdspek.github.com/jquery.autoellipsis/, and in general it works very well.
The problem comes when I need to update the text of the element. One would assume that changing the text of the element and calling the plugin again would perform the same action the initial call performed.
But, as can be seen in this fiddle - it doesn't.
The code is very simple
var container = $(".container");
container.text("This is a long text that should have text ellipsis");
//this works fine
container.ellipsis();
$("button").click(function()
{
container.text("This is the modified text that should also have ellipsis");
//this doesn't work
container.ellipsis();
});
The only way I could make it work is by deleting the data stored on the element, and by this
making the plugin run "from scratch".
any ideas?

Clear the data stored by autoellipsis: container.data('jqae', null);
var container = $(".container");
container.text("This is a long text that should have text ellipsis");
//this works fine
container.ellipsis();
$("button").click(function()
{
container.data('jqae', null);
container.text("This is the modified text that should also have ellipsis");
//this doesn't work
container.ellipsis();
});

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How do you use the dc.redrawAll() function onclick?

I would like to be able to use the dc.js select menu (dc.selectMenu) in such a way that when I click on an element it gets the value of said element and that becomes the value of the select, once selected it should refresh the data as it normally would if you had just selected in the first place.
The problem I'm having is that I can set the value, but dc.redrawAll() seems to do nothing for me so I think I must be filtering wrongly, but I can't find much information online regarding how to do it other than simply using the filter method (not onclick).
I have tried to set the destination to whatever data-destination is which appears to be working, the value of the select does update when I check with console.log to check the value of the select menu, I then use the dc.redrawAll() function expecting it would filter based on the select option but it does nothing (not even an error in the console)
My function so far is looking like:
function select_destination(ndx) {
var destination_dim = ndx.dimension(dc.pluck('destination'));
var destination_group = destination_dim.group();
var destination = null;
document.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
if (!e.target.matches('.open-popup-link')) return;
e.preventDefault();
var destination = e.target.getAttribute('data-destination').toString();
document.getElementById('select-destination').value = destination;
dc.redrawAll();
});
dc.selectMenu('#select-destination')
.dimension(destination_dim)
.group(destination_group)
.filter(destination);
}
I would expect the graphs to update based on the select option but nothing happens, and I get no error message to go off either.
I suspect I'm using dc.redrawAll() wrongly as if I go to the console and type dc.redrawAll(); I get undefined but I'm really at a loss now and the documentation isn't really helping me at this point so I don't know what else to do.
they are bits of your code that I don't quite understand, for instance why do you have have filter(destination /*=null */)
anyway, So you want to filter the select menu? you can call directly the replaceFilter function with the value, as done in the source code:
menu.replaceFilter(destination);
dc.events.trigger(function () {
menu.redrawGroup();
});
See the source code for the full example of how it's done
https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/docs/html/select-menu.js.html#sunlight-1-line-129
as for why it doesn't work, I have had some surprising results mixing d3 with pure dom js. Try to rewrite your even handler in d3, eg
d3.select('#select-destination').property('value', destination);
it's possibly that changing the value on the dom directly isn't triggering the change event.
My experience with d3 is that it works better to change the underlying data (call directly filter functions or whatever you want to do) and let dc redraw the needed rather than manipulating the dom directly

General update pattern not working as expected with d3.selection

I am puzzling over why the following simple update pattern doesn't work. This follows the recommended General Update Pattern , as far as I can see.
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3-selection.v1.min.js"></script>
...
var dat = ["One","Two","Buckle my shoe"];
var sel = d3.selectAll("p.test").data(dat);
sel.enter().append("p").classed("test", true);
sel.exit().remove();
//update 1 ... doesn't work
sel.text(function(d) { return d;})
The paragraphs get created fine, but the text isn't set. However, if I do this:
//update 2 ... this works as expected
d3.selectAll("p.test").text(function(d) { return d;});
...everything works fine. The first version has always worked in the past.
Update: I tried using the full d3 library ...
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
... and the first version works again. Do I need more than d3.selection?
To clarify, my past practice has been to define a separate update function that takes the selection as a parameter. Eg, function doUpdate(sel) { sel.text(...);}This is for cases where I expect the data elements to have few changes in size, but many changes in content. Storing the selection as a variable and repeatedly running updates on it has worked well before.
So after studying the release notes, it seems this is not going to be backwardly compatible, for some good reasons. First, the short answer:
Replace this:
sel.enter().append("p").classed("test", true);
...
sel.text(function(d) { return d;}) //update block
with this:
var update = sel.enter().append("p").classed("test", true).merge(sel);
...
update.text(function(d) { return d;}) //update block
The reason for this is described in this article (thanks #mbostock) and is a fix for empty selector problems with v3. The point I missed at first was that the enter() block needs to run first so that the merge() block has a populated selection to work on. Which means that the merge() call must come off the end of the enter() block chain.
The format of the change documents sort of hid that, because many examples use chains of function calls. I'm used to splitting the enter/update blocks into separate variables. This aids readability (usually) and means I can farm out the enter/update actions to separate functions - more reusable code that way.
So with that in mind, this doesn't work:
var enter = sel.enter();
var update = enter.merge(sel); //Nope! Not populated at this point.
enter.append(...); //too late! Update block uses an empty selection.
But this works okay
var enter = sel.enter();
enter.append(...);
var update = enter.merge(sel); //defined after block is populated

Check programmatically if a value is compliant with a datavalidation rule

I am using data validation rules on a Google Spreadsheet.
In my scenario, I need users to entry only valid values. I use the 'Reject input' to force them to write only validated content.
However, the 'Reject input' option works for manually entried data only, but it does not work if the user pastes content into the cell from a different source (e.g. a MS Excel document). In that case, a warning is still shown but the invalid value is written.
In other words, I need the 'Reject input' option to work also with pasted content.
OR... another approach would be to programmatically check the validity of the value according the Datavalidation rule for that cell.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance.
I had a little play with this.
I had inconsistent behavior from google.
On occasion when I ctrl-c and ctrl-p, the target cell lost its data validation!
To do this programmatically
Write myfunction(e)
Set it to run when the spreadsheet is edited, do this by Resources>Current Project's Triggers
Query e to see what has happened.
Use the following to gather parameters
var sheet = e.source.getActiveSheet();
var sheetname = sheet.getSheetName();
var a_range = sheet.getActiveRange();
var activecell = e.source.getActiveCell();
var col = activecell.getColumn();
var row = activecell.getRow();
You may wish to check a_range to make sure they have not copied and pasted multiple cells.
Find out if the edit happened in an area that you have data validated;
if (sheetname == "mySheet") {
// checking they have not just cleared the cell
if (col == # && activecell.getValue() != "") {
THIS IS WHERE YOU CHECK THE activecell.getValue() AGAINST YOUR DATA VALIDATION
AND USE
activecell.setValue("") ;
to clear the cell if you want to reject the value
}
}
The obvious problem with this is that it is essentially repeating programmatically what the data validation should already be doing.
So you have to keep two sets of validation rules synchronized. You could just delete the in sheet data validation but I find that useful for providing the user feedback. Also is the data validation you are using provides content it is practical to leave it in place.
It would be great if there was a way of detecting that ctrl-p had been used or one of the paste-special options and only run the script in those cases. I would really like to know the answer to that. Can't find anything to help you there.
Note also that if someone inserts a row, this will not trigger any data validation and the onEdit() trigger will not detect it. It only works when the sheet is edited and by this I think it means there is a content change.
onChange() should detect insertion, it is described as;
Specifies a trigger that will fire when the spreadsheet's content or
structure is changed.
I am posting another answer because this is a programmatic solution.
It has a lot of problems and is pretty slow but I am demonstrating the process not the efficiency of the code.
It is slow. It will be possible to make this run faster.
It assumes that a single cell is pasted.
It does not cater for inserting of rows or columns.
This is what I noticed
The onEdit(event) has certain properties that are accessible. I could not be sure I got a full listing and one would be appreciated. Look at the Spreadsheet Edit Events section here.
The property of interest is "e.value".
I noticed that if you typed into a cell e.value = "value types" but if you pasted or Paste->special then e.value = undefined. This is also true for if you delete a cell content, I am not sure of other cases.
This is a solution
Here is a spreadsheet and script that detects if the user has typed, pasted or deleted into a specific cell. It also detects a user select from Data validation.
Type, paste or delete into the gold cell C3 or select the dropdown green cell C4.
You will need to request access, if you can't wait just copy & paste the code, set a trigger and play with it.
Example
Code
Set the trigger onEdit() to call this or rename it to onEdit(event)
You can attach it to a blank sheet and it will write to cells(5,3) and (6,3).
function detectPaste(event) {
var sheet = event.source.getActiveSheet();
var input_type =" ";
if (event.value == undefined) { // paste has occured
var activecell = event.source.getActiveCell();
if (activecell.getValue() == "") { // either delete or paste of empty cell
sheet.getRange(5,3).setValue("What a good User you are!");
sheet.getRange(6,3).setValue(event.value);
input_type = "delete"
}
else {
activecell.setValue("");
sheet.getRange(5,3).setValue("You pasted so I removed it");
sheet.getRange(6,3).setValue(event.value);
input_type = "paste";
}
}
else { // valid input
sheet.getRange(5,3).setValue("What a good User you are!");
sheet.getRange(6,3).setValue(event.value);
input_type = "type or select";
}
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().toast('Input type = ' + input_type, 'User Input detected ', 3);
}

Extension: How to intercept AJAX responses?

Since extensions can not access unsafeWindow, like Firefox can, to hook into DOM scripts am I looking for other ideas so I come to SO for help!
How about using some code to inject into DOM and sending the intercepted response to a background page, which then does some initial processing before calling a content script for final processing. When done, it answers to the background with a modified response, or the original (it depends), and the background page sends the response back to DOM which handles it to the DOM script response function.
There is just one problem with this, a background page cant communicate with the DOM.
I did a small test with injecting some code, where I output something to the console and an alert. The result wasnt good, as the alert fired but the console was empty - not even an error, which makes me wonder - what console received the output ?
function injectCode(fn){ // Executing an anonymous script
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.type = 'application/javascript';
script.textContent = '(' + fn + ')();';
document.documentElement.appendChild(script); // run the script
document.documentElement.removeChild(script); // clean up
}
var code = function(){
console.log('dom',window);
alert('code injected');
}
injectCode(code);
I also tried addEventListener, with DOMAttrModified DOMSubtreeModified DOMNodeInserted, on DOM elements that change when the DOM ajax response is fully parsed but all failed to fire.
Am I trying to do the impossible, by any means ?
Before continuing, make sure that you know the differences between the script contexts in an extension.
To inject a script from the background page, you have to execute a Content script, which on his turn injects the script as mentioned in your question / here.
Examples (using chrome.tabs.executeScript):
// null = current active tab
// Simple code, background:
chrome.tabs.executeScript(null, {
code: [
'var s = document.createElement("script");',
's.textContent = "console.log(window);";',
'(document.head||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);',
's.parentNode.removeChild(s);'
].join('\n')
});
I can imagine that this method is not doable for a big chuck of code. For a set of pre-defined scripts, you can then use two scripts: the code itself, and a helper script:
// config.js
var fn_code = function() {
console.log(window); ....
};
// helper.js
var s = document.createElement('script');
s.textContent = '(' + fn_code + ')();';
(document.head||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);
s.parentNode.removeChild(s);
// Background:
chrome.tabs.executeScript(null, {file: 'config.js'}, function() {
chrome.tabs.executeScript(null, {file: 'helper.js'});
});
Note: I did not directly link to "config.js", because that complicates the use when using manifest version 2, see "web_accessible_resources".
The previous method only shows how to execute code in one direction (background -> page). If there's a need to activate a background's function from the injected script, you have to define and listen to a custom event handler. See this answer + demo.
Because the code is injected, thus runs in the scope of the page, you have to check the console at the page.
When chrome.tabs.executeScript fails to execute the Content script (eg. because the extension does not have the permission to access a certain page), an error is logged at the console in the background page. This console can be accessed by following these steps.

Unable to remove element loaded by AJAX

I am trying to remove an element on AJAX success which was loaded and attached to the document during a previous AJAX call.
My code looks something like this:
$("#jobs-table-body").on("click", ".one-rc-button", function() {
var ctx = $.parseJSON($(this).siblings(".context").html());
$("#one-rc-candidate-id").val(ctx.candidateId);
$("#one-rc-job-id").val(ctx.jobId);
var loader = $("#wrapper").loader();
$.post($("#one-rc-form").attr("action"), $("#one-rc-form").serialize(), function(result) {
loader.remove();
if(result.success) {
// This works and returns 1
alert($("#candidate-row-" + result.rejectedCandidateId).length);
// This doesn't seem to be doing anything
$("#candidate-row-" + result.rejectedCandidateId).remove();
} else {
//$("#one-jc-messages").html(result.error);
}
});
});
The elements .one-rc-button and #candidate-row-<candidateId> were loaded by a previous AJAX call and they are attached to the document as I can very well see them on my page.
Now, on click of the previously generated .one-rc-button, I trigger a second AJAX call (which works fine) and on result.success, I want to delete the #candidate-row-<candidateId> (which is within the previously generated parent element).
The alert works and returns 1. So I know for sure that the selector is fine and it is matching one unique element.
What I don't understand is why it is unable to remove the element from the page.
Observations
I use Firefox 10.0.2 where this problem is reproducible.
On IE 8, it works (element gets removed)
On debugging the script on Firebug, I can verify that I have got a handle to the right eleemnt.
Try using FireBug to set a breakpoint on that line so you can see exactly what it's getting from that selector. Ideally break up the statement first, like this:
var unwantedDiv = $("#candidate-row-" + result.rejectedCandidateId);
unwantedDiv.remove(); // <-- Set a breakpoint on this line
You can then look at the unwantedDiv variable in the watch pane on the right of the firebug debugger and see what it is, what methods it has/has not got etc. I would assume that you are not getting back exactly what you think you are, possibly because of how you attached the div after the previous AJAX call. More information about JavaScript debugging with FireBug here.
Another option is to turn on strict warnings in the firebug console and see if you get any 'undefined method' errors, which don't stop the show on FireFox, but just bounce you out of that function. Do you get an error in IE?
Solved it by a really ugly workaround. I am still not sure what causes this behaviour.
if(result.success) {
var removeThis = $("#candidate-row-" + result.rejectedCandidateId);
removeThis.remove();
removeThis = $("#candidate-row-" + result.rejectedCandidateId);
if(removeThis.length != 0) {
removeThis.remove();
}
}
Now it works on both Firefox and IE.

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