That was it! And it makes total sense - thanks much for the extra set
of eyes, you rock!
On Jul 23, 5:22 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Inside the textResize() function, on the first line try adding:
> level = parseInt(level);
>
> I'm thinking when you're manually calling textResize, you're doing
> something like:
> textResize(3);
>
> But when you're doing it through the cookie, it's not an Integer, it's
> a String:
> textResize("3");
>
> Your switch statement is testing for Integers, so "3" doesn't match
> anything. And you don't have a default condition either to act on it,
> so it does nothing.
>
> On Jul 23, 1:07 pm, Magnificent
>
> <imightbewrongbutidontthin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
>
> > I'm doing a text resizer with a cookie to remember the font size
> > level. I'm running into a little problem and was wondering if someone
> > sees something obvious I'm missing. The cookie is being set/read OK
> > and the text resizer works when triggered manually, but it's not being
> > executed on page load when you navigate to other pages.
>
> > For example, on the home page, I set it to the largest size, size 3.
> > This gets set to the cookie. If you quit/relaunch the browser, the
> > cookie still reports size 3. Also, when you navigate to another page,
> > onload, it reads the size 3 and it passes it to the textResize()
> > function (these are my console.log() lines), but the text isn't
> > actually resized on page load. If you trigger the text resizer
> > manually, it works.
>
> > I'm controlling the font size by adding (or removing) a class to the
> > body tag. Anyone have any ideas why the text isn't resizing
> > automatically onload?
>
> > //START text resizer
> > //on dom ready either set default cookie or read existing cookie
> > $(function() {
> > //if no cookie, set cookie for default textsize of 1 (out of 3
> > possible sizes)
> > //persist cookie for 365 days, 1 year
> > if (!$.cookie("textsize")){
> > $.cookie("textsize", "1", { path: '/', expires: 365 });
> > }
>
> > //get cookie value and pass to textResize function
> > var cookie_val = $.cookie("textsize");
> > console.log("onload: " + cookie_val);
> > textResize(cookie_val);
>
> > });
>
> > function textResize(level){
> > var body = $("body");
> > console.log("textResize: " + level);
>
> > switch(level) {
> > case 1:
> > body.removeClass('bigText biggerText');
> > $.cookie("textsize", "1", { path: '/', expires: 365
> > });
> > break;
> > case 2:
> > body.removeClass('biggerText').addClass('bigText');
> > $.cookie("textsize", "2", { path: '/', expires: 365
> > });
> > break;
> > case 3:
> > body.addClass('biggerText');
> > $.cookie("textsize", "3", { path: '/', expires: 365
> > });
> > break;
> > }}
>
> > //END text resizer
