How to serialize a form with dynamically added inputs using jQuery? - form-submit

I've read through a lot of questions addressing similar question but I can't get a grip on it, yet.
I have a simple HTML form just like
<form id="edit-items" name="edit-items" onsubmit="saveItems();">
<input type="submit" value="Save">
<input class="item" id="ei81" type="hidden" name="i[81]" value="1">
<input class="item" id="ei124" type="hidden" name="i[124]" value="1">
</form>
The two existing hidden inputs could be set upon document loading due to a prior save.
Now I have images (kind of a menu). If they are clicked a corresponding hidden input is appended to the form:
<img id="i37" class="clickable-item" src="items/i37.gif" title="item name" onclick="addItem(37,1)" />
The addItem function:
function addItem(id,n) {
var zitem = $("#e"+id);
if ( 0 in zitem ) {
if ( zitem.val() > 0 ) {
var newcnt = parseInt(zitem.val()) + n;
if ( newcnt <= 0 ) {
zitem.remove();
}
else {
zitem.val(newcnt);
}
}
}
else if(n == 1) {
var iform = $("#edit-items");
iform.append("<input class=\"item\" id=\"e"+id+"\" type=\"hidden\" name=\"i["+id+"]\" value=\"1\">");
}
}
This part all works correct, after clicking the image, my form looks like
<form id="edit-items" name="edit-items" onsubmit="saveItems();">
<input type="submit" value="Save">
<input class="item" id="ei81" type="hidden" name="i[81]" value="1">
<input class="item" id="ei124" type="hidden" name="i[124]" value="1">
<input class="item" id="ei37" type="hidden" name="i[37]" value="1">
</form>
which is exactly what I want. But then when hitting the submit button only the first two elements are submitted (the ones which have not been added dynamically).
Now, I read a lot about .bind and .live handlers but I am missing some point obviously. I tried to delete the onclick attribute on the images and to bind the .live to them since they are causing the new inputs:
$(".clickable-item").live("click", function() {
addItem($(this).attr("id"),1);
});
However, the ID is not transferred which is needed, though (hence no correct input is added). I learned that .live doesn't bind the handler to any elements but to the event.
Is it even possible to pass the element which has been clicked to the live handler?
Should the images even be watched by .live or should it be bound to something else?
The last thing I learned form another question here is that the inputs should be watched by .live, since they are dynamically added. But what kind of event I would attach? The inputs themselves are not clicked.
I would really appreciate any help as I am cracking my head and starting to get lost on that one.
Thanks in advance,
Paul

Regarding live() [docs]: this refers to the clicked element, so you can pass it to addItem with addItem(this, 1). This part of your code should work.
If you don't add or remove images dynamically then there is no reason to use live. You can just use click() [docs] (and yes, don't use onclick in the HTML).
But I see another problem:
The image id is i37. $(this).attr("id") will return this value.
In your addItem function you then take this value and perform string concatenation. The result will be $("#ii37") (note the two is).
The input element you create will have the id ii37 and not i37.
If you correct this to match it with the other elements like in your example (i.e. i37) , you will have problems because you have several elements with the same id (the input element and the image). If the image comes before the input field in the hierarchy, then $("#i37") will always select the image and you cannot call .val() on an image.
As I don't know what is the overall purpose of the code and what you want to do, I cannot give any suggestion how to improve this. Maybe it is enough to just change the prefix of the image and input field ids.
I learned that .live doesn't bind the handler to any elements but to the event.
That is not correct. .live() binds the event handler to the document root. Events, if not cancelled, bubble up the DOM tree, so they reach the root eventually. There, the event.target [docs] property is examined to determine the element that was clicked.

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Resetting a form generated server-side in vue.js

I am rendering a form with Blade, Laravel's server-side templating language. The default values for the form elements are assigned by Blade. There is no JavaScript involved until now. Now I want to implement a reset button.
When a user presses the reset button the form should be cleared. A simple HTML reset button is not sufficient as it would not reset the "value=something" default values to "null".
In other words:
<input type="text" name="fullname" value="John Doe">
is supposed to be
<input type="text" name="fullname" value="">
after the user pressed the reset button.
With JQuery I would do something like this:
$("body").find('form').find('input').val('');
How can I do it with vue.js? Adding av-model and setting the v-model properties to null interferes with the server side default values...
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<input type="text" v-model="test_input">
and when you change the variable test_input the input automaticly changes its value, so just set it to empty in a method.
<button #click="clear_form"> Clear </button>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
test_input : ''
}
},
methods:{
clear_form(){
this.test_input = '';
}
}
}
</script>
I ended up writing a reset-form button component. In this component I use plain Javascript to get all input, select, ... fields of the form identified by an id and reseted the values to ''.
I took this option as it was the fastest way to reset the form and I don't have to change anything (e.g. add props, change ajax calls) if my form changes.

Angular 2 form valid by default

Having issue with form validation .
i want to submit the form only when form is valid.
but with the empty inputs and clicking on submit button is submitting the form although the inputs are empty.
<form name="equipmentForm" #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="f.form.valid && addEquipment()" validate>
Inputs be like this.
<input name="equimentId" class="text-input form-control" type="text" [(ngModel)]="model.equipmentNumber" pattern="^[0-9][0-9]{1,19}$" title="Equipment ID. can be upto 20 digits only.">
I cant post the whole code although.
this
f.form.valid is true from form initialization
wanted to acheive something like this
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Please enter Equipment Model
</div>
So on submit i want to show this message instead of default browser's.
but this f.form.valid is goddamn true from default.
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However you can also give a try to pristine, dirty options, which allow you to check if the user did any changes to the form so in this case your condition may look like this:
<form name="equipmentForm" #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="f.form.valid && f.form.dirty ? addEquipment() : ''" validate>
and the input:
<input name="equimentId" class="text-input form-control" type="text" [(ngModel)]="model.equipmentNumber" pattern="^[0-9][0-9]{1,19}$" title="Equipment ID. can be upto 20 digits only." required />
In this case it will check if any changes were applied to the input, and submit the form if both conditions are met.
If you specify the required attribute on the input, then the form will not be submitted unless a value is filled in. But that only covers values that were not supplied and you may want to check for invalid values as well.
The usual way is to disable the submit button unless the form is valid. Like this:
<button type="submit" [disabled]="!f.form.valid">Submit</button>
The Angular documentation about form validation also shows this. Look near the bottom of the "Simple template driven forms" section
In function which you call on submit you can pass form as parameter and then check. In html you will need to pass form instance:
<form name="equipmentForm" #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="addEquipment(f)" validate>
In typescript:
addEquipment(form){
if(form.invalid){
return;
}
//If it is valid it will continue to here...
}

Ui-tabset and bootstrap-daterangepicker not working together?

I have an application where I am using ui-bootstrap-tabs. documentation here. With the ng-bs-daterangepicker.
The behavior I am observing is that whenever I put the daterangepicker inside the ui-tab. It is not able to catch the events attached to it.
But when I move that input tag outside the ui-tabs, it's able to catch the events associated with it.
I have created a working plunker to highlight my issue.
<body ng-app="myApp">
<div ng-controller="testController">
<uib-tabset>
<uib-tab index="0" heading="Drivers"></uib-tab>
<uib-tab index="1" heading="Charts">
<input class="btn btn-danger" type="daterange" id="daterange1" ng-model="dates" format="DD MMM" ranges="ranges" />
</uib-tab>
</uib-tabset>
<!-- <input class="btn btn-danger" type="daterange" id="daterange1" ng-model="dates" format="DD MMM" ranges="ranges" /> -->
</div>
</body>
Here there are two input tags. One inside the uib-tab and other outside it.
$scope.dates = {
startDate: moment().startOf('day'),
endDate: moment().endOf('day')
};
$scope.ranges = {
'Today': [moment(), moment()],
'Yesterday': [moment().subtract('days', 1), moment().subtract('days', 1)],
'Last 7 days': [moment().subtract('days', 7), moment()],
'Last 30 days': [moment().subtract('days', 30), moment()],
'This month': [moment().startOf('month'), moment().endOf('month')]
};
$('#daterange1').on('apply.daterangepicker', function(ev, picker) {
console.log(picker.startDate);
console.log(picker.endDate);
});
The event apply.daterangepicker is not called when I activate the inside input button but is called when I activate the outside one.
My approach
I am guessing it's not a scope issue as highlighted in some posts. Because if it was that, then how come even the date is being populated.
Another thing could be the Known issue column which says
To use clickable elements within the tab, you have override the tab
template to use div elements instead of anchor elements, and replicate
the desired styles from Bootstrap's CSS. This is due to browsers
interpreting anchor elements as the target of any click event, which
triggers routing when certain elements such as buttons are nested
inside the anchor element.
maybe somehow this is stopping the event propagation. I am stuck at this point and can't think of a solution on how to fix it. Hoping the community would help here...
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When daterangepicker is initialized inside Tabs component you could attach event like this:
$("body").on("apply.daterangepicker", "#daterange1", function(e,picker) {
console.log(picker.startDate);
console.log(picker.endDate);
});
Modified plunker

Scripts not working on partial view after Ajax call

I have called scripts on _Layout.cshtml page and my Index.cshtml page has partial view into it. So on page load, SignalR scripts working perfect on partial view, on page end I make another ajax request and load the partial view with another data filled in that and embed under already displayed data, and then the SignalR does not work on the newly embedded record.
This is my index page code:
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="profile-body">
<div class="row infinite-scroll">
#Html.Partial("_AlbumRow", Model)
</div>
</div>
</div>
This is my partial View Code:
#model IEnumerable<SmartKids.Lib.Core.ViewModels.FileMediaAlbumsVM>
#foreach (var item in Model)
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<div class="widget">
<div class="block rounded">
<img src="#Url.Content(item.ImageUrl)" alt="#item.Title">
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</div>
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}
Kindly help me how to resolve this issue that after making an ajax request I am not able to get those SignalR working. Here is more to say when I put the SignalR scripts on PartialView that works but it also sucks that on each ajax request there is again SignalR loaded on the page and when I click on LIke button it makes many calls to the function behind it.
Kindly help me to resolve this issue, I am stuck at this point since 1 week.
Here is signalR Code:
$(".btn.btn-sm.btn-default").on("click", function () {
var imageId = $(this).attr("data-image-id");
albumClient.server.like(imageId);
});
Problem: You are binding event to elements directly, So when you remove this element and replace it with a different one the events are also removed along with that element, This is something like strongly coupled.
Solution: Use Jquery event delegation. This will make sure the events will be triggered on the current elements and also all the elements that can come in future.
syntax is as below.
$(document).on("click", ".btn.btn-sm.btn-default",function () {
var imageId = $(this).attr("data-image-id");
albumClient.server.like(iamgeId);
});
NOTE: This was never a singlaR issue, it was Jquery issue.
Efficient Way: The problem in using $(document).on("click"... is that when ever there is a click happening on the entire page the Jquery framework will bubble the events from the clicked element upwards(its parent, and its parent and so on..) unless the element specified in the selector arrives, So its kind of performance hit as we don't want this check's to run if we are clicking outside the required area ( button .btn.btn-sm.btn-default in this example).
So best practice is to bind this event delegation to the closest parent possible which will not be removed, <div class="row infinite-scroll"> in this question. So that only when the click happens within this element the event bubbling will happen and also will be stopped once it reaches the parent element,it acts kind of a boundary for event bubbling.
$('.row.infinite-scroll').on("click", ".btn.btn-sm.btn-default",function () {
var imageId = $(this).attr("data-image-id");
albumClient.server.like(iamgeId);
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prototype : onclick remove previous element

i have html as below in which onclick of <a> i want to remove the text box above it.
<input class="sku-box" class="input-text validate-number" type="text" title="file-number" name="sku[]">
<a value="remove" onclick="remove()" href="javascript:void(0);">remove</a>
<input class="sku-box" class="input-text validate-number" type="text" title="file-number" name="sku[]">
<a value="remove" onclick="remove()" href="javascript:void(0);">remove</a>
my solution to this, i changed the <a> tag to this.
remove
and my prototype function look like this
function removefield(ele)
{
$(ele).previous().remove();
ele.remove();
}
You have several options for observing click events, and usually I wire up click events after the dom is loaded using something like:
document.on('click', 'a', myFunction.BindAsEventListener())
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However, with the direction you are going there you would be better off to pass the identity of your a tag to the remove function, then it is easy to remove the previous element. So you would have:
<a id="a_tag1" value="remove" onclick="remove('a_tag1')" href="javascript:void(0);">remove</a>
Then your function remove might look something like this:
function remove(a) {
// prev element
var elm = $(a).previous('input');
// remove it
if(elm)
elm.remove();
}
This is very basic and in reality you would need to do things to guarantee that the previous input element you are grabbing is associated with the a element you clicked. You could do this by agreeing on a new data-xxxx element tag or an arbitrary class name you can use to compare the elements. For example, your a tag might look like:
<a data-group='monkeys'>...</a>
And the cooresponding input tag might look like:
<input data-group='monkeys'>...</input>
Then, in the above code where you call previous on the a tag, you would construct your select to include a test on the data-group value that matches the current a tag.
Karl..

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