Running a javascript after ajax load - ajax

I'm using jQuery UI. I'm loading some content in a dialog box over AJAX. After inserting the content from the server, I need to make modifications to the document. I am using the .live() function on my link; I thought this would enable me to use Js after loading the content over ajax, but it's like the content I just loaded isn't a part of the document. Any help very much appreciated.

Are you adding the bindings (lives) in the success function of the ajax call?
If so I had the same issue, I'll try to explain what I figured out:
$.post('callURL', function(data){
// Let's say data returned from server is an ID of a div I have to hide
// by clicking on some_link
$('#some_link').live('click',function(){
$('#'+data).hide();
});
});
This won't work because the code inside the 'live' function is executed on click and at that time the 'data' value is gone.
To make it work I made a global variable 'ID' which I set in the success function and then called in the 'live' function again like this:
var ID;
$.post('callURL', function(data){
// Let's say data returned from server is an ID of a div I have to hide
// by clicking on some_link
ID = data
$('#some_link').live('click',function(){
$('#'+ID).hide();
});
});

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Handle ajax response with node.js

I am trying to scrape information from a specified website. This site uses authentication first, thus a i use zombie.js:
var Browser = require("zombie");
var browser = new Browser();
browser.visit("https://*****login.aspx", function(){
browser.fill('#user', '*****');
browser.fill('#pwd', '*****');
var button = browser.querySelector('#btnSubmit');
browser.fire('click', button, function(){
//scraping main.aspx
});
});
It's working, i can scrape the main.aspx: there is a <table>, containig information about new messages(from, date, subject,), the problems comes here: the subject field is clickable, and clicking on it makes a new window appear with the actual message. However it is an ajaxgrid, and when i perform a click:
var field = browser.querySelector('#VeryLongIdOfTheField');
browser.fire('click', field, function(){
console.log(browser.querySelector('#VeryLongIdOfTheFieldContainingTheMessage').innerHTML);
});
it returns an error message, saying that undefined has no innerHTML. I suppose its because this action handled with some ajax magic. I am new in this js/nodejs/jquery/.. world, some help needed to enlight me.
Since the data is populated using async ajax, I'm guessing there's a lag between your click and the actual DOM population inside the node. How about waiting for a bit before checking the content inside the node.
browser.fire('click', field, function(){
setTimeout(function(){
console.log(browser.querySelector('#VeryLongIdOfTheFieldContainingTheMessage').innerHTML);
}, 3000)
});
If the time taken is not very predictable, you could also run it inside a loop until you find the content or exit after a reasonable number of retries.

How to bind events to element generated by ajax

I am using RenderPartial to generate CListView and all the contents generated properly and good pagination is working fine too. But when I added my custom JS to elements generated by the CListview it works fine for the the fist page content but when i use pagination and click to page 2 then the JS binding fails.
Is there any other way to bind custom event to elements generated in YII CListview I had tried using live, and on nothing work for me here is my js file.
I think I have to call my function on every ajax load in but how can I achieve in yii
This is the script I am using to update ratings on server with button click and this the element for which these forms and buttons are defined are generated by CListview in yii
$(document).ready(function(){
$('form[id^="rating_formup_"]').each(function() {
$(this).live('click', function() {
alert("hi");
var profileid= $(this).find('#profile_id').attr('value');
var userid= $(this).find('#user_id').attr('value');
console.log(userid);
var data = new Object();
data.profile_id=profileid;
data.user_id=userid;
data.liked="Liked";
$.post('profile_rating_ajax.php', data, handleAjaxResponse);
return false;
});
});
});
You can also try CGridView.afterAjaxUpdate:
'afterAjaxUpdate' => 'js:applyEventHandlers'
The $.each method will loop only on existing elements, so the live binder will never see the ajax-generated content.
Why don't you try it like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('form[id^="rating_formup_"]').live('click', function() {
alert("hi");
var profileid= $(this).find('#profile_id').attr('value');
var userid= $(this).find('#user_id').attr('value');
console.log(userid);
var data = new Object();
data.profile_id=profileid;
data.user_id=userid;
data.liked="Liked";
$.post('profile_rating_ajax.php', data, handleAjaxResponse);
return false;
});
});
This problem can be solved by two ways:
Use 'onclick' html definitions for every item that is going to receive that event, and when generating the element, pass the id of the $data to the js function. For example, inside the 'view' page:
echo CHtml::htmlButton('click me', array('onclick'=>'myFunction('.$data->id.')');
Bind event handlers to 'body' as the framework does. They'll survive after ajax updates:
$('body').on('click','#myUniqueId',funcion(){...});

TinyMCE not working in http request xhr ajax generated page

So i I have a page that contains links that call an httpRequest. The request calls a php file that grabs data from mysql and pre populates a form which is then returned to the browser/webpage. My problem is that when the page is returned to the browser via the httpRequest/ajax the text area does not display the tinymce editor, it just displays a normal text area. It looks like my request and ajax is working fine the text area just doesn't have the tinycme editor on it.
When i don't use ajax it works fine but when i put it in a separate file and call it via ajax it doesn't bring in the tinymce editor.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem so that my ajax generated page displays the text area with the tinymce editor. Thank you.
Lets presume that your thinyMCE instance is initialized with code below
// initialize tinyMCE in page
tinyMCE.init({
mode: "textareas",
theme: "advanced"
});
and you have some kind of button somewhere in the page. For purpose of this tip, i will not give it any ID but you may. Now, using jQuery you can easily attach event handler to that button which will call through AJAX your server and take content which you want to put tinyMCE editor. Code which will do such job would look somehow like below.
$(function() {
$("button").bind("click", function() {
var ed = tinyMCE.get('content');
ed.setProgressState(1); // Show progress
$.getJSON('/page/12.json', { /* your data */
}, function(data) {
ed.setProgressState(0); // Hide progress
ed.setContent(data["body"]);
}
});
});
});
You can see that on button.click ajax will call url /page/12.json which will return JSON as response. bare minimum of that response could be:
{
title: "Page title",
body: "<html><head><title>Page title</title>......</html>"
}
I attached anonymous function as callback which will handle response from server. and hide progress indicator which is shown before ajax call.
About JSON
JSON is shorten of JavaScript Object Notation. It is JavaScript code!!! So don't be confused about it. Using JSON you can make javascript object which can have attributes you can use later in your code to access particular peace of data which that object "holds". You can look at it as some kind of data structure if it is easier to you.
Anyway, to show you how this JSON can be created by hand look at examples below
var data = new Object();
data.title = "Page title";
data.body = "<html....";
or
var data = {
title: "page title",
body: "<html...."
};
it is very same thing.
If you want to learn more about JSON point your browser to http://json.org.
===== alternative =====
Alternative to json solution could be just plane ajax call to server and response can be plain HTML (from your question I can assume that you have something like this already). So instad of calling $.getJSON you can use $.get(url, callback); to do same thing. The code at the top of my answer will not dramatically change. Instead of geting JSON in response you will get string which is HTML.
----------- BOTTOM LINE -------
I prefer JSON since it can be easily extended later with other attributes, so there is no painful code changes later ;)
Problem here will be that when you return the full page and render it using the ajax response, your tinymce instance has not been shut down before.
In order to do this you can call this small piece of code before you render the ajax response:
tinymce.execCommand('mceRemoveControl',true,'editor_id');
In this case the editor should initialize correctly. You are not allowed to initialize a tinymce editor with the same id before shutting the first one down.
Strangely i ran into this problem yesterday. Following code should work, but YMMV. Trick is to use the correct steps in ajax events. I used the Regular TinyMCE and made use of the jQuery library already included.
Following goes into your tinyMCE initialization tinyMCE.init() . All of the below block should be outside the document.ready.
myTinyInit = {
//.......All essential keys/values ...........
setup : function(ed) {
ed.onChange.add(function( ed ) {
tinyMCE.triggerSave();
}) }
//.....................
};
// Init the tinyMCE
tinyMCE.init(myTinyInit);
This ensures the content is being saved regularly onto the textarea that holds the value. Next step is setting up the request events.
Normally tinyMCE mceAddControl before the ajax post and mceRemoveControl after the ajax success should do the trick. But I found that often does not work.
I used the form as the jQuery selector in my case.
jQuery( '.myForm' )
.find( 'textarea#myTextArea' )
.ajaxStart(function() {
// If you need to copy over the values, you can do it here.
// If you are using jQuery form plugin you can bind to form-pre-serialize event instead.
// jQuery( this ).val( tinyMCE.get( jQuery( this ).attr( 'id' )).getContent() );
}).ajaxSend( function() {
// ! - step 2
// My case was multiple editors.
myEds = tinyMCE.editors;
for( edd in myEds ) {
myEds[ eds ].remove();
}
// tinyMCE.get( 'myTextarea' ).remove();
// strangely mceRemoveControl didnt work for me.
// tinyMCE.execCommand( 'mceRemoveControl', false, jQuery( this ).attr('id'));
}).ajaxSuccess(function() {
// Now we got the form again, Let's put up tinyMCE again.
txtID = jQuery( this ).attr( 'id' );
// ! - step 3
tinyMCE.execCommand( 'mceAddControl', false, txtID );
// Restore the contents into TinyMCE.
tinyMCE.get( txtID ).setContent( jQuery( this ).val());
});
Problems i came across :
Using mceRemoveControl always gave me r is undefined error persistently.
If you get a blank tinyMCE editor, check the DOM whether the ID of the textarea is replaced with something like mce_02, this means that TinyMCE is being initialized again or something is wrong with the order. If so, the tinyMCE is duplicated with each save.
if you are new to JS, I recommend using jQuery with the form plugin, it might be easier for you. But do use the regular non-jquery tinyMCE, as it is well documented.
I fixed this problem by recalling the function after the ajax call. In this part of my ajax:
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("Content").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
tinymce();
Now it works fine.

Update using AJAX and JQuery

I'm trying to do a simple update, but can't figure out somthing.
I have a table that i get from a DB with an Edit button that when i press change to a Save button so i can save with Ajax the record that the user just edit.
I'm doing the first part just fine, have one function that do all the jquery stuff on the page (that is working just fine).
Now I want to change the $('#a'+productID) line to save insted of edit. i am changing the link attribute also, so when the user presses save it will send him to a function that will make the Ajax request and update the record.
But i dont have a clue how to start that....I don't think it has any thing to do with any bind function becouse i am allready binded by calling the save function (or am i wrong and need to bind antway???) can any one help me out here?
P.S. the save function recives the productID do i have the right product when i will need it.
Don't have a code to send for the save function becouse i don't know how to start it and every thing i tried doesn't work....sorry :-(
It might be easier if you simply had both buttons on the page and toggled between them depending on the page state.
<a id="editButton" href="http://example.com/widget/edit/1">Edit</a>
<a id="saveButton" href="http://example.com/widget/update/1" style="display: none;">Save</a>
$(function(){
$('#editButton').click( function() {
// set up the form as edit...
$(this).hide();
$('#saveButton').show();
return false;
});
$('#saveButton').click( function() {
var button = $(this);
var href = button.attr('href');
$.post(href,$('form').serialize(), function() {
// change form back to readonly...
button.hide();
$('#editButton').show();
}
});
});

Submiting a form from ajax outside the page (php)

I use JQuery to insert a form into a div, the form is in a php file.
function show(id){
var content = $("#layer1_content");
$("#layer1").show();
var targetUrl = "mouse.php?cat="+id;
content.load(targetUrl);
}
Everything works, but when I submit it goes to that php page. Ff I call the same form within the same php then it works fine. The response is handled by:
$('#layer1_form').ajaxForm({
target: '#content',
success: function()
{
$("#layer1").hide();
}
});
Your question is not super clear but my hunch is that in the case when it does not work, you are actually submitting the form. This would cause the page reload.
Try grabbing the form and attaching a submit handler that cancels the submit:
$('form').submit(function(){ return false; });
hey, thanks for reply, i just fixed it but in a very cheap manner.
Il try explain again, my jquery gets the contents from a php file like so:
stuff....here..
this calls a div that pops up:
function show(id)
{ var content = $("#layer1_content");
$("#layer1").show();
var targetUrl = "mouse.php?cat="+id;
content.load(targetUrl);}
and this is supposed to submit and send back the results from the php "savesettings"
$('#layer1_form').ajaxForm({
target: '#content',
success: function()
{
$("#layer1").hide();
}
});
above : #content is were the output will show.
layer1 is the div that holds the form.
if #layer1 div is were my javascript is then, everything works, and the #content div receives the info. But i cant put it the form in the same file cause it will contain alot of settings that will fill the page horribly.
so what i did was (and this is cheap of note i am sure)
this, i took all the stuff inside the form, and called it externally, so that did the trick but it feels cheap :
Iput i new div hre
you think my solution is pathetic?

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