[jQuery] Re: displaying image in top right corner

2009-11-02 Thread jmatthews
Put a hidden in your html. Hello Jquery: $("#mymouse").mouseover(bla bla { $("#myimage") do things (e.g. set top, left, margins, color, MAKE VISIBLE.) - best to just add a class in lieu of this mouseout(bla bla $("#myimage") reverse everything you did on mouseover - best to

[jQuery] Re: Block UI question

2009-11-02 Thread jmatthews
Once you re-direct by submit, your current page loses control. That's the problem with the submit button. When user presses, your page is immediately gone. You need to manually do this by making your own, fake "submit." Stick a .gif "submit look-alike" in your html. http://www.w3schools.com/a

[jQuery] Re: Selectors

2009-11-02 Thread jmatthews
The reference does not show the use of quotes like you have: http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/not#selector Their example: $("input:not(:checked) + span").css("background- color", "yellow"); Yours re-written: $('tr .myToggle:not(:hidden):odd').addClass ('gray');//hopefully works On Nov 2, 3

[jQuery] Re: class toggle navigation

2009-11-02 Thread jmatthews
I'm a little confused, but before I examine more closely, one thing I'd like an answer to is whether you have defined the initial "active" incorrectly. You gave the link to http://www.thomasrugani.com/static/designobjects/02.html That's 02.html - NOT 01.html Yet, when I look at the source of

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Hah! Got it! Just getting used to mixing languages. Kept looking for the solution in Jquery. It was just plain HTML Dom.

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Okay, now that, through event.target, I have trapped and deflected a click in "senate" when the actual click was on the checkbox next to a member, I want to determine the element from which it came and modify it. Specifically, I know it came from one of the checkboxes preceding the many senate mem

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Resolved!!! I needed to clean up the class issue slightly. The event issue came down to Karl's ($event.target)issue PLUS USING MOUSEOVER AND NOT MOUSEENTER. The reference guide DOES describe it properly; I am just thick-headed, I guess. Mouseover will fire when entering over a child. Mouseout

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
I'm going to have to sleep on this. I am flustered. I think adding a class like that actually creates a second class, and that the second class is also inherited by children. Here'e the frustrating part: When the sub-table opens up under House, it has a set of tree branches on the left. I ref

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Karl, I think I have finally snapped to what you advised. You said: You're fighting against two principles: event bubbling and style cascading. You can limit the event to be triggered only on those top- level items, but if you're directly applying a style to those top- level items, the child elem

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Karl coded: $('.house, .senate').mouseover(function(event) { $(event.target).addClass('highlight'); }).mouseout(function(event) { $(event.target).removeClass('highlight'); }); I did not notice then in prior posts. Guess I completely missed it. What is target, and how does it di

[jQuery] Re: Easy question to answer

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
eveloper.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element#Propertieshttp://www.javascriptkit.com/domref/elementproperties.shtml > > --Karl > > > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Nov 1, 2009, at 6:44 PM, jmatthews wrote: > > > Where is the documentatio

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
OK. So. Close! Even "done" if this is the best that can be had. You all were right about adding and removing classes. You were just suggesting they be added and removed in the wrong place. The parent class should be removed when the child element is entered. Vice Versa, when the chil

[jQuery] Easy question to answer

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Where is the documentation on the properties of nodes that Jquery utilizes? xxx.nodeName (where nodeName) is the property. nodeName works with Jquery. I am trying to find a list of which other do (e.g. nodeType, nodeValue, etc.). Thanks.

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
the ground, where you can see streets, etc. On Nov 1, 1:57 pm, jmatthews wrote: > Thanks, Karl.  I realize the problem I created with multiple threads. > The actual issue was changing as I was recognizing what was > happening.  I wanted people to know what subject I was on and the >

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
I see. Good to know. Let's let this thread die and stay on the other one. I sent you a reply in that one. On Nov 1, 1:51 pm, Karl Swedberg wrote: > On Nov 1, 2009, at 1:49 PM, jmatthews wrote: > > > On the topic of mouseenter and mouseleave, which some of you > > recom

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Thanks, Karl. I realize the problem I created with multiple threads. The actual issue was changing as I was recognizing what was happening. I wanted people to know what subject I was on and the original post was describing another topic. I probably should not have done that... Anyway, I looked

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
On the topic of mouseenter and mouseleave, which some of you recommended, quirksmode says only IE supports this method, and the others do not at this time. The quirksmode sponsor is very critical of their failure to incorporate these methods because it would make the coding far less complex. So,

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
On the topic of mouseenter and mouseleave, which some of you recommended, quirksmode says only IE supports this method, and the others do not at this time. The quirksmode sponsor is very critical of their failure to incorporate these methods because it would make the coding far less complex. So,

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
On the topic of mouseenter and mouseleave, which some of you recommended, quirksmode says only IE supports this method, and the others do not at this time. The quirksmode sponsor is very critical of their failure to incorporate these methods because it would make the coding far less complex. So,

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Andrei, I think you've hit it! I really don't quite understand the quirksmode material as well as you veteran programmers, but I can tell this is the crux of the issue and how to handle it. It has to do with handling fromElement and relatedTarget. Do you think you could assist with this in order

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Andrei, I think you've hit it! I really don't quite understand the quirksmode material as well as you veteran programmers, but I can tell this is the crux of the issue and how to handle it. It has to do with handling fromElement and relatedTarget. Do you think you could assist with this in order

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Andrei, I think you've hit it! I really don't quite understand the quirksmode material as well as you veteran programmers, but I can tell this is the crux of the issue and how to handle it. It has to do with handling fromElement and relatedTarget. Do you think you could assist with this in order

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Andrei, I think you've hit it! I really don't quite understand the quirksmode material as well as you veteran programmers, but I can tell this is the crux of the issue and how to handle it. It has to do with handling fromElement and relatedTarget. Do you think you could assist with this in order

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
Andrei, I think you've hit it! I really don't quite understand the quirksmode material as well as you veteran programmers, but I can tell this is the crux of the issue and how to handle it. It has to do with handling fromElement and relatedTarget. Do you think you could assist with this in order

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
BTW, Andrei. Now that the map stuff loaded, the next time you load the page, it should be pretty quick. If not, let me know.

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
BTW, Andrei. Now that the map stuff loaded, the next time you load the page, it should be pretty quick. If not, let me know.

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
BTW, Andrei. Now that the map stuff loaded, the next time you load the page, it should be pretty quick. If not, let me know.

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
On Nov 1, 10:54 am, Andrei Eftimie wrote: > > Mousing over class="placemark" causes it to fire as if there was a > > mouseover on class="Senate."  "placemark" has its own class, separate > > from the "senate" class. > > This behaviour is actually the way it supposed to be. > mouseover and mouseo

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-11-01 Thread jmatthews
I tried that, too. This is some bizarre behavior. It is not at all what you would predict. Let me show you the Firebug-generated html tree below. Senate

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-10-31 Thread jmatthews
Nope. I know what I want, but not what I'm doing. What is the proper syntax to make the mouseover() below only take effect on the parent BUT NOT ITS CHILDREN? $(".House,.Senate,.Assembly").mouseover(function()

[jQuery] Re: mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-10-31 Thread jmatthews
I tried that, but successive appends wind up happening in reverse order (i.e. ABCDE winds up EDCBA). Plus, it makes my html tag listing in firebug look like it has poor structure. I want to see everything I add as being children, and not siblings, of the innerHTML that precedes it. What I want i

[jQuery] mouse control issue within nested tags

2009-10-31 Thread jmatthews
This is related to an earlier post, but rather than address it is a selecting issue, I am thinking it is an append issue. I'd like others' thoughts on this. If you have: Hello You can control the innerHTML through Jquery mouseover(), etc. Simple enough. If you have: HelloGoodbye The mouseov

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
f odd. On Oct 30, 2:16 pm, Scott Sauyet wrote: > On Oct 30, 9:30 am, jmatthews wrote: > > > When I mouseover a child, it is thinking it is just the contents of > > parent.  I need to restrict mouseover to children only, regardless of > > the fact that they are encapsulated

[jQuery] Re: restricting mouseover() to parent only

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
.on('mouseout', function(e, el) { if(!e.within(Ext.get('outsideDiv'), true)){ Ext.get('outsideDiv').setDisplayed('none'); } }); }); .menu { border: 1px solid #CCC; text-align: left; display:block; position:absolute; top:100px; left:100px; width: 100px; backgrou

[jQuery] restricting mouseover() to parent only

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
Interesting, and I can't imagine this hasn't been dealt with already! If you have nested , the mouseover on the outside prohibits you from setting a different mouseover() on the inside . Like this: Parent Child If you instruct $("#parent").css("color","blue"), it will color both Parent a

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
Okay. The problem is now this: The children are wholly contained within individual divs encapsulated by parent, as follows: state child When I mouseover a child, it is thinking it is just the contents of parent. I need to restrict mouseover to children only, regardless of the fact th

[jQuery] Re: How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
Thanks, I tried it. It turns out that !important gives precedence to a property that has been later trumped by a more proximate designation. In my app., ".placemark" will be a class of items below state with id="AL." I was able to control it in CSS to where ONLY the parent's attributes do not app

[jQuery] How to Select element with class, but EXCLUDE its children?

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
I am manipulating a style on elements with class="House" or "Senate." Unfortunately, it sets the style for every child underneath. The tree is like this: AL House of Representatives Member Member Member Senate Member Member Member House has class="House.

[jQuery] Using variable combination as selector

2009-10-30 Thread jmatthews
thisState="ALHouse"; I want to select all elements of class="placemark" and whose parent is thisState. Any suggestions? Thanks.