Session 10 - JavaScript, Part 3
Harvard Extension School
Spring 2021
Course Web Site: https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/
Topics
- Javascript Resources
- JS Data Structures - array and "object" (key/value pair)
- Your work easier with jQuery
- Separation from Markup
- JavaScript - Minifying and CDNs
- jQuery Examples
- Add Another
- Unobtrusive Javascript, Progressive Enhancement, Graceful Degradation
- Pancake Menu
- Form Price Calculation
- jQuery UI
- Slideshow
- Form Validation with jQuery Validation Plugin
- Javascript Helping with Navigation
Presentation contains 38 slides
Javascript Resources
jQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library that we will begin discussing next week!
Document Object Model (DOM)
<html>
<head>
<title>My Schools</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My Schools</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.harvard.edu/">Harvard University</a><br/>
<img src="images/veritas.gif" alt="Harvard Shield" height="84" width="72"/>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ku.edu/">University of Kansas</a><br/>
<img src="images/KUSeal.gif" alt="University of Kansas Seal" height="73" width="72"/>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>JS Data Structures - array and "object" (key/value pair)
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
JSON array Example:
['Autumn', 'Winter', 'Spring', 'Summer']
JSON object Examples:
Simple "name/value" pairs:
{
"lastName" : "Bacow",
"firstName" : "Lawrence",
"email" : "president@harvard.edu"
}
"name/value" pairs, with values being an array (list) of things:
{
"apples" : ['Macoun','Empire','Honey Crisp','Albemarle Pippin'],
"oranges" : ['Naval Orange','Tangelo','Clementine','Valencia Orange']
}
More about JSON
A data format widely used in Ajax is JSON -- this format is used to pass data from the web server to the browser, and it is in a format that is easily worked with in JavaScript.
We first need to take a look at the JSON format and how we can work with it, and then we'll see how this works together in Ajax.
The introduction to JSON from json.org is a great place to start:
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.
JSON is built on two structures:
- A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array.
- An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence.
These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form or another. It makes sense that a data format that is interchangeable with programming languages also be based on these structures.
Your work easier with jQuery
What is jQuery?
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.
- document traversal
- document manipulation
- event handling
- animation
- Ajax
- cross-browser
Learning jQuery
jQuery and $(document).ready();
See: $(document).ready() for more explanation, including the shorthand of $().
Separation from Markup
- Use Javascript to add the "onclick" listener
Let's see how we can do this with jQuery. Items to note:
- Separation. The "click" handler is bound via JavaScript and not the onclick attribute.
- Fancier. jQuery provides many "effects" and "animations" (basic ones here are
fadeOutandfadeIn) - Default Behavior Stopped. The default behavior for event propagation can be stopped.
- Unobtrusive. JS is used to hide additional form elements.
<div id="cscie12-course2" style="font-family: calibri,verdana,tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; float: left; width: 50%; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border: medium solid black; background-color: #ffb;">
<h3>CSCI E-12: Fundamentals of Website Development </h3>
<p>Harvard Extension School
<br/>
David Heitmeyer
<br/>
CSCI E-12
</p>
<p id="cscie12-description2">This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used in the field and learn how the various facets including HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases function together in today's web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side (browser) components (HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, multimedia), with an overview of the server-side technologies. In addition, software and services that are easily incorporated into a website (for example, maps, checkout, blogs, content management) are surveyed and discussed. Students produce an interactive website on the topic of their choice for the final project and leave the course prepared for more advanced and focused web development studies.
</p>
</div>
<div style="width: 20%; float: left; margin-left: 2em;">
<p>
<strong>Hide/Show/Toggle Description </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#" id="hide">Hide </a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#" id="show">Show </a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#" id="toggle">Toggle </a>
</li> </ul>
</div>
In
script element within head element (<script>):
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#hide').click(
function(event){
$('#cscie12-description2').fadeOut('slow');
event.preventDefault();
}
);
$('#show').click(
function(event){
$('#cscie12-description2').fadeIn('slow');
event.preventDefault();
}
);
$('#toggle').click(
function(event) {
console.log('toggle!');
$('#cscie12-description2').toggle('slow');
event.preventDefault();
}
);
});
JavaScript - Minifying and CDNs
Minified JS
What is "min" (minified) JS and CSS?
Comments and unnecessary whitespace are removed.
- 288 kb for jquery-3.5.1.js
- 9 kb for jquery-3.5.1.min.js
70% reduction!
Load Your Core JS Library through a CDN
MaxCDN (jQuery CDN), Google, Microsoft, and cdnjs.com host several JS libraries through their CDNs.
Using jQuery with a CDN
Three reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you (or any other CDN):
- Decreased latency
- Increased Parallelism
- Better Caching
CDNs to Use
But not just jQuery! Several JavaScript libraries are hosted through various CDNs:
jQuery Examples
- Exposing additional form elements
- Add another
Ice Cream
- Use JavaScript to add the "onclick" listener
- Use JavaScript to hide the
divcontaining the additional options.
Let's see how we can do this with jQuery. Items to note:
- Separation. The "click" handler is bound via JavaScript and not the onclick attribute.
- Fancier. jQuery provides many "effects" and "animations" (basic ones here are
fadeOutandfadeIn)
<form method="get" name="ice_cream" id="ice_cream" action="https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/echo">
<div>Would you like ice cream?
<br/>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="want" id="ic_yes" value="yes"/>
Yes </label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="want" id="ic_no" value="no"/>
No </label>
</div>
<fieldset id="icecream_options">
<legend>Ice Cream Options </legend>
<p>How would you like it?
</p>
<label>
<input type="radio" id="container_cup" name="container" value="cup"/>
Cup </label>
<br/>
<label>
<input type="radio" id="container_cone" name="container" value="cone"/>
Cone </label>
<br/>
<p>Pick your toppings:
</p>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_wc" value="whipcream"/>
Whipped cream </label>
<br/>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_j" value="jimmies"/>
Jimmies </label>
<br/>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_nuts" value="nuts"/>
Nuts </label>
<br/>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_cherry" value="cherry"/>
Cherry </label> </fieldset>
<p>
<input type="submit"/>
</p>
</form> In style
element
(<style>) within head element:
#icecream_options {
background-color: #eee;
margin-left: 2em;
}
label { display: block; }
In
script element within head element (<script>):
$(document).ready(
function(){
$("#icecream_options").hide();
$("input[name='want']").click(
function(){
displayIceCreamOptions();
}
);
}
);
function displayIceCreamOptions() {
if ($("input[name='want']:checked").val() == 'yes') {
$('#icecream_options').fadeIn('slow');
} else {
$('#icecream_options').fadeOut('slow');
}
}
Add Another
Example: add_another.html | Add Another in JSFiddle
JavaScript:
- select the "div" we want to duplicate
- clone the "div" to create a new one
- change the id (to maintain uniqueness) of the new div
- insert the new div into the document
$(document).ready(function() {
var numberofphones = 1;
$('#addphone').click(function() {
numberofphones++;
newid = 'phone' + numberofphones;
var phonediv = $('#phone1');
var newphonediv = phonediv.clone();
newphonediv.attr('id',newid);
newphonediv.insertBefore('#addphone');
});
});Markup:
<form action="https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/echo" method="get">
<fieldset>
<legend>Contact Information</legend>
<div>Name:
<input type="text" name="name"/></div>
<div id="phone1">Phone:
<input type="text" name="phone"/> </div>
<input type="button" id="addphone" value="Add another phone"/>
</fieldset>
<div><input type="submit"/></div>
</form>Chaining jQuery
- calculate the new "id" string
- select the phone div to be duplicated
- duplicate (clone) the phone div
- change the id of the new phone div
- insert the new phone div into the document
jQuery methods return nodes, so we can easily chain these steps together.
Stepwise:
$(document).ready(function() {
var numberofphones = 1;
$('#addphone').click(function() {
numberofphones++;
newid = 'phone' + numberofphones;
var phonediv = $('#phone1');
var newphonediv = phonediv.clone();
newphonediv.attr('id',newid);
newphonediv.insertBefore('#addphone');
});
});Chained: (select → clone → change attribute → insert into DOM)
$(document).ready(function() {
var numberofphones = 1;
$('#addphone').click(function() {
numberofphones++;
newid = 'phone' + numberofphones;
$('#phone1').clone().attr('id',newid).insertBefore('#addphone');
});
});Unobtrusive Javascript, Progressive Enhancement, Graceful Degradation
Principles of Unobtrusive JavaScript
- Separation
- Progressive Enhancement (Graceful Degradation)
Progressive Enhancement for "add another"
- One strategy would be to hide the "Add Another" button and make it visible through JavaScript.
- Alternatively, we could create the "Add Another" node in JS and then adding it to the page via JS.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#addphone').css('display','inline');
var numberofphones = 1;
$('#addphone').click(function() {
numberofphones++;
newid = 'phone' + numberofphones;
$('#phone1').clone().attr('id',newid).insertBefore('#addphone');
});
});A browser with JS disabled would display form with a single phone field.
Example: add_another_unobtrusive.html
With JavaScript disabled in browser:
Ice Cream
Start with everything visible, then hide with JavaScript:
Key piece here is: $("#icecream_options").hide();
<form method="get" name="ice_cream" id="ice_cream" action="https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/echo">
<div>Would you like ice cream?
<br/>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="want" id="ic_yes" value="yes"/>
Yes </label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="want" id="ic_no" value="no"/>
No </label>
</div>
<fieldset id="icecream_options">
<legend>Ice Cream Options </legend>
<p>How would you like it?
</p>
<label>
<input type="radio" id="container_cup" name="container" value="cup"/>
Cup </label>
<label>
<input type="radio" id="container_cone" name="container" value="cone"/>
Cone </label>
<p>Pick your toppings:
</p>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_wc" value="whipcream"/>
Whipped cream </label>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_j" value="jimmies"/>
Jimmies </label>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_nuts" value="nuts"/>
Nuts </label>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="toppings" id="toppings_cherry" value="cherry"/>
Cherry </label> </fieldset>
<p>
<input type="submit"/>
</p>
</form> In style
element
(<style>) within head element:
#icecream_options {
background-color: #eee;
margin-left: 2em;
}
label { display: block; }
In
script element within head element (<script>):
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#icecream_options").hide();
$("input[name='want']").click(function(){
displayIceCreamOptions();
});
});
function displayIceCreamOptions() {
if ($("input[name='want']:checked").val() == 'yes') {
$('#icecream_options').fadeIn('slow');
} else {
$('#icecream_options').fadeOut('slow');
}
}
Pancake Menu
Mobile Pancake/Hamburger Menus
Form Price Calculation
Let's revisit the Dado Lunch Form, this time calculating a price!
jQuery UI
jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.
Tabs with jQuery
jQuery UI Tab Widget allows the easy creation of tabs from simple markup.
With JS and CSS:
Without JS and CSS:
Markup:
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="#basic">Overview</a>
</li>
<li><a href="#description">Description</a>
</li>
<li><a href="#schedule">Schedule</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div id="basic">
<h2>Overview</h2>
<h3>Fundamentals of Website Development
<br/>CSCI E-12</h3>
<p>Harvard Extension School</p>
<p><a href="http://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/">cscie12.dce.harvard.edu</a>
</p>
<p><strong>Format: Online (live or on demand) web conference</p>
<p><strong>Time: </strong>Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand</p>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h2>Course Description</h2>
<p>This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used in the field and learn how the various facets—including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases—function together in today's web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side (browser) components (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, multimedia), with an overview of the server-side technologies. In addition, software and services that are easily incorporated into a website (for example, maps, checkout, blogs, content management) are surveyed and discussed. Students produce an interactive website on the topic of their choice for the final project and leave the course prepared for more advanced and focused web development studies.</div>
<div id="schedule">
<h2>Schedule of Lectures</h2>
<ol>
<li>Getting Started - Internet, WWW, HTML</li>
<li>Markup (HTML)</li>
<li>Markup (HTML) and Style (CSS)</li>
<li>Style (CSS), Part 2 - Block Model, Colors, Images, Lists</li>
<li>Style (CSS), Part 3 - CSS and Layouts</li>
<li>Style (CSS), Part 4 - Techniques and CSS Frameworks</li>
<li>JavaScript, Part 1 - JS Introduction</li>
<li>JavaScript, Part 2 - JS and jQuery</li>
<li>JavaScript, Part 3 - Integrating JS Functionality</li>
<li>JavaScript, Part 4 - XHR and dynamic pages</li>
<li>Web Content Management Systems</li>
<li>Server-Side, Part 1 - Dynamic Content</li>
<li>Server-Side, Part 2 - HTTP, Web Server Configuration</li>
<li>Grab Bag of Topics</li>
<li>Final Project Due and In-Class Presentations (Optional)</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>JS and CSS:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/themes/sunny/jquery-ui.css"
media="all" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"> </script>
<script>
$(document).ready(
function(){
$('#tabs').tabs();
}
);
</script>jQuery UI Tabs
If you use UI tabs, use for content, NOT for site navigation!
jQuery UI Tabs: Featured Content Slider
Featured content slider using jQuery UI
Javascript: (just like any other jQuery UI Tabs:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#featured").tabs({fx:{opacity: "toggle"}}).tabs("rotate", 5000, true);
});Markup:
<div id="featured" >
<div id="fragment-1"> <img src="images/featured1.jpg" />
<div class="info" >...</div>
</div>
<div id="fragment-2"> <img src="images/featured2.jpg" />
<div class="info" >...</div>
</div>
<div id="fragment-3"> <img src="images/featured3.jpg" />
<div class="info" >...</div>
</div>
<!-- ... -->
<div id="fragment-7"> <img src="images/featured7.jpg" />
<div class="info" >...</div>
</div>
<ul class="ui-tabs-nav">
<li id="nav-fragment-1"><a href="#fragment-1"><img src="thumbnail1.jpg"/></a></li>
<li id="nav-fragment-2"><a href="#fragment-2"><img src="thumbnail2.jpg"/></a></li>
<li id="nav-fragment-3"><a href="#fragment-3"><img src="thumbnail3.jpg"/></a></li>
<!-- ... -->
<li id="nav-fragment-7"><a href="#fragment-3"><img src="thumbnail7.jpg"/></a></li>
</ul>
</div>Rotating Carousels
- Designing Effective Carousels: Create a Fanciful Amusement, Not a House of Horrors
by Kara Pernice from Nielsen Norman GroupSummary: Carousels allow multiple pieces of content to occupy a single, coveted space. This may placate corporate infighting, but on large- or small-view ports, people often scroll past carousels. A static hero or integrating content in the UI may be better solutions. But if a carousel is your hero, good navigation and content can help make it effective.
Harvard - Carousel to No Carousel
Carousel:
No Carousel:
Other jQuery UI Widgets
jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.
jQuery UI provides abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
- Accordion
- Autocomplete
- Button
- Datepicker
- Dialog
- Menu
- Progressbar
- Selectmenu
- Slider
- Spinner
- Tabs
- Tooltip
jQuery Datepicker Widget
jQuery has plugins that will provide an unobtrusive "calendar" widget for picking dates.
Markup:
<form action="https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/echo">
<p>
Enter a start date: <input class="date" type="text" size="32" name="startdate" id="startdate" />
</p>
<p>
Enter an end date: <input class="date" type="text" size="32" name="enddate" id="enddate" />
</p>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>CSS amd JS:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"
media="all" />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"
></script>
<script
src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"
></script>
<script >
$(document).ready(function(){
$('input.date').datepicker();
})
</script>jQuery UI Themes
Apply the "smoothness" theme | Apply the "hot-sneaks" theme |
Slideshow
Structure + Style + Function: solarsystem.html
Structure + Style: solarsystem-style.html
Slideshow
A gallery with no JavaScript -- thumbnail images are linked to the full-sized image with a simple<a href="full/a.jpg" rel="gallery"><img src="thumb/a.jpg"/></a>:
Example Galleries
View example galleries implemented in various "lightbox" or "slideshow" programs.
Form Validation with jQuery Validation Plugin
jQuery Validation Plugin makes validating forms easy and flexible.
You can use it "out of the box" quickly and create validation rules by simply using class names in your input elements. You can use this validation plugin in more sophisticated ways as well, including providing your own validation methods.
Form Validation - setting rules with 'class' attributes
jQuery Validation Plugin makes validating forms easy and flexible.
- Form 1
- Use the
jquery.validation.jsplugin in a basic way. - jQuery Validation ".validate()" documentation
- Validation rules are specified in "class" attributes
<html>
<head>
<title>A Form to Illustrate Validation using the jQuery Validation Plugin</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="form.css"/>
<script
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"
integrity="sha256-hwg4gsxgFZhOsEEamdOYGBf13FyQuiTwlAQgxVSNgt4="
crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script
src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.17.0/jquery.validate.min.js">
</script>
<script >
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#myForm").validate();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myForm" method="post"
action="https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/echo">
<fieldset>
<legend>Information</legend>
<p>
<label for="name">Name</label> <em>(Required)</em>
<br/>
<input id="name" name="name" size="25" class="required"/> </p>
<p>
<label for="email">Email Address</label> <em>(Required)</em>
<br/>
<input id="email" name="email" size="25" class="required email"/> </p>
<p>
<label for="url">URL</label> <em>(Required)</em>
<br/>
<input id="url" name="url" size="25" class="required url"/> </p>
<p>
<input class="submit" type="submit" value="Submit Form"/> </p>
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>Form Validation - setting rules as configuration
Rules are quite customizable and can be expressed in JavaScript sections and not in the code markup.
- form2.html
- Documentation: jQuery Validation "rules" configuration
<html>
<head>
<title>A Form to Illustrate Validation using the jQuery Validation Plugin</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="form.css"/>
<script
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"
integrity="sha256-hwg4gsxgFZhOsEEamdOYGBf13FyQuiTwlAQgxVSNgt4="
crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script
src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.17.0/jquery.validate.min.js">
</script>
<script >
$(document).ready(function(){
var validation = $("#myForm").validate(
{
rules: {
name: { required: true, minlength: 2 },
email: { required: true, email: true },
url: { required: true, url: true }
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myForm" method="post" action="https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/echo">
<fieldset>
<legend>A Form to Illustrate Validation using the jQuery Validation Plugin</legend>
<p>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input id="name" name="name" size="25"/>
</p>
<p>
<label for="email">Email Address</label>
<input id="email" name="email" size="25"/>
</p>
<p>
<label for="url">URL</label>
<input id="url" name="url" size="25" value="" />
</p>
<p>
<input class="submit" type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>Form Validation - setting custom messages and error placement
$(document).ready(function(){
var validation = $("#myForm").validate(
{
rules: {
name: { required: true, minlength: 2 },
email: { required: true, email: true },
url: { required: true, url: true },
favnum: { required: true, number: true },
favnum10: { required: true, number: true, min: 1, max: 10},
color: {required: true},
season: {required: true, minlength: 2},
yourdate: { required: true, date: true }
},
messages: {
season: { minlength: jQuery.validator.format("Pick a minimum of {0} choices") }
},
errorPlacement: function(error,element) {
if ( element.is("[name=color]") )
error.appendTo( $('p#color') );
else if ( element.is("[name=season]") )
error.appendTo( $('p#season') );
else if ( element.is("[name=comments]") )
error.insertAfter( $('label[for=comments]') );
else
error.insertAfter(element);
}
});
});Form Validation - defining a custom rule
Here we define a new validation rule called "netid" (three characters and three numbers, e.g. 'abc123')
- jQuery.validator.addMEthod(name, method [,message])
- Regular expression
var pattern = /^[a-zA-Z]{3}[0-9]{3}$/;
this is a regular expression pattern (regex) that matches three characters (e.g. abc) followed by three numbers (e.g. 123).- "^" matches the beginning of the string
- "[a-zA-Z]" defines a character class of all lower and upper alphabetic characters
- "{3}" indicates that the character class preceding occurs three times
- "[0-9]" defines a character class of numbers - e.g. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
- "{3}" indicates that the character class preceding occurs three times
- "$" matches the end of the string
pattern.test(value)returnstrueorfalse, depending on whether the 'value' matches the pattern
$(document).ready( function() {
/* addMethod for netid validation */
$.validator.addMethod(
"netid",
function(value, element) {
var pattern = /^[a-zA-Z]{3}[0-9]{3}$/;
return this.optional( element ) || pattern.test( value );
},
'Please enter a valid NetID (e.g. abc123).'
);
var validation = $("#myForm").validate(
{
rules: {
name: { required: true, minlength: 2 },
email: { required: true, email: true },
netid: { required: true, netid: true }
}
});
});Javascript Helping with Navigation
- Using Javascript to control navigation display
- dynamically set classes/ids to achieve
- You are Here
- What is "close by"
- Where you are in the broader context
- dynamically set classes/ids to achieve
Navigation
<html>
<head>
<title>The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa (Constitution of the Iroquois Nations)</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body id="part1">
<?php include("inc/header.php"); ?>
<?php include("inc/nav.php"); ?>
<main>
<?php include("inc/content1.php"); ?>
</main>
<?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>
</body>
</html>"You are here" with CSS
"You are Here" CSS Example in JSFiddle
<nav id="navigation">
<ul id="mainnav">
<li id="navpart1"><a href="1.shtml">The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa</a></li>
<li id="navpart2"><a href="2.shtml">Rights, Duties and Qualifications of Lords</a></li>
<li id="iamhere"><a href="3.shtml">Election of Pine Tree Chiefs</a></li>
<li id="navpart4"><a href="4.shtml">Names, Duties and Rights of War Chiefs</a></li>
<li id="navpart5"><a href="5.shtml">Clans and Consanguinity</a></li>
<li id="navpart6"><a href="6.shtml">Official Symbolism</a></li>
<li id="navpart7"><a href="7.shtml">Laws of Adoption</a></li>
<li id="navpart8"><a href="8.shtml">Laws of Emigration</a></li>
<li id="navpart9"><a href="9.shtml">Rights of Foreign Nations</a></li>
<li id="navpart10"><a href="10.shtml">Rights and Powers of War</a></li>
<li id="navpart11"><a href="11.shtml">Treason or Secession of a Nation</a></li>
<li id="navpart12"><a href="12.shtml">Rights of the People of the Five Nations</a></li>
<li id="navpart13"><a href="13.shtml">Religious Ceremonies Protected</a></li>
<li id="navpart14"><a href="14.shtml">The Installation Song</a></li>
<li id="navpart15"><a href="15.shtml">Protection of the House</a></li>
<li id="navpart16"><a href="16.shtml">Funeral Addresses</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
And the CSS:
#navigation a {
/* Rules for navigation items */
}
#navigation a:hover {
/* Rules for navigation items */
}
/* Rules specific for "you are here" */
#navigation #iamhere a,
#navigation #iamhere a:hover {
/* Rules for the "you are here" item */
}"You are here" with JavaScript
View this technique in action.Example in JSFiddle
- Each
bodyis uniquely identified (id) - Each navigation list item gets an
id - CSS rule for
id="iamhere" - JavaScript to set the "iamhere"
id
Note the id of the body:
<html>
<head>
<title>Election of Pine Tree Chiefs (Constitution of the Iroquois Nations)</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body id="part3">
<?php include("inc/header.php"); ?>
<?php include("inc/nav.php"); ?>
<main>
<?php include("inc/content3.php"); ?>
<main>
<?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>
</body>
</html>Each navigation item has an id:
<nav id="navigation">
<ul id="mainnav">
<li id="navpart1"><a href="1.shtml">The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa</a></li>
<li id="navpart2"><a href="2.shtml">Rights, Duties and Qualifications of Lords</a></li>
<li id="navpart3"><a href="3.shtml">Election of Pine Tree Chiefs</a></li>
<li id="navpart4"><a href="4.shtml">Names, Duties and Rights of War Chiefs</a></li>
<li id="navpart5"><a href="5.shtml">Clans and Consanguinity</a></li>
<li id="navpart6"><a href="6.shtml">Official Symbolism</a></li>
<li id="navpart7"><a href="7.shtml">Laws of Adoption</a></li>
<li id="navpart8"><a href="8.shtml">Laws of Emigration</a></li>
<li id="navpart9"><a href="9.shtml">Rights of Foreign Nations</a></li>
<li id="navpart10"><a href="10.shtml">Rights and Powers of War</a></li>
<li id="navpart11"><a href="11.shtml">Treason or Secession of a Nation</a></li>
<li id="navpart12"><a href="12.shtml">Rights of the People of the Five Nations</a></li>
<li id="navpart13"><a href="13.shtml">Religious Ceremonies Protected</a></li>
<li id="navpart14"><a href="14.shtml">The Installation Song</a></li>
<li id="navpart15"><a href="15.shtml">Protection of the House</a></li>
<li id="navpart16"><a href="16.shtml">Funeral Addresses</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>And the CSS:
#navigation a {
/* Rules for navigation items */
}
#navigation a:hover {
/* Rules for navigation items */
}
/* Rules specific for "you are here" */
#navigation #iamhere a,
#navigation #iamhere a:hover {
/* Rules for the "you are here" item */
}And the JavaScript (using jQuery) that finds the correct navigation item and sets
the id attribute value to "iamhere":
$(document).ready(function(){
var mybodyid = $('body').attr('id');
var mynavid = '#nav' + mybodyid;
/* e.g. for 3.shtml:
mybodyid is 'part3'
mynavid is '#navpart3'
*/
$(mynavid).attr('id','iamhere');
});Clamshell Navigation
- Set "iamhere" id
- Close all nested lists
- Show parents of "iamhere"
- Show children of "iamhere"
<script >
$(document).ready(function(){
console.log("Ready!");
var mybodyid = $('body').attr('id');
var mynavid = '#nav_' + mybodyid;
console.log("mybodyid is " + mybodyid);
console.log("mynavid is " + mynavid);
// Set iamhere id
$(mynavid).attr('id','iamhere');
// hide all nested lists
$('#navigation ul ul').hide();
// show parents of "iamhere"
$('#iamhere').parents().show();
// show children of "iamhere"
$('#iamhere').children().show();
});
</script> JSFiddle Example
Note for the JSFiddle example, we are using a 'div' to contain the 'id' instead of the 'body'.
Clamshell Navigation in JS Fiddle