Learning jQuery

In this short post, find jQuery code to select all readonly input type textboxes present on the page. $(function(){ $(":input[type=text][readonly='readonly']").val(""); }); However, if you have single readonly textbox element, then select it using its ID. And if you want to exclude all readonly input type textboxes from selection, then use below jQuery code. $(function(){ $(":input[type=text]:not([readonly='readonly'])").val(""); […]

In this short post, find jQuery code to strip/remove HTML tags. To remove HTML tags, use text() function which returns only the text content and ignores the HTML portion. console.log($('#dvTest').text()); You can also strip/remove HTML tags from any variable as well as text() is jQuery function, so the variable needs to be converted into a […]

Learnt something new today and thought of sharing. Most of us, include the reference of jQuery library (if Google CDN is used) like this, http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js As you can see it is using HTTP protocol. The advantage of Google CDN files are cached up to one year which means that your users may not need to […]

Many developers ignore shortcuts and power of jQuery and I myself being a victim of some of the useful, handy but yet ignored shortcuts of jQuery. These are not some advance or complex shortcuts but I guess these are used a lot. Consider, below jQuery code lines. $("#elm").css("display", "none"); //Line 1 $("#elm").css("display", ""); //Line 2 […]

You must have come across any website which uses a webpage with some annoying advertisement and a message that says "You will be redirected to actual page after X seconds". This can be easily implemented with jQuery. In this post, find jQuery code to redirect user to another webpage after specific time interval or few […]

In this short post, find jQuery code to check if URL contains "#" (hash) or not. This can be checked via location.hash property provided by JavaScript and same can be used in jQuery. $(document).ready(function(){ if(window.location.hash) { // # exists in URL } else { // No # in URL. } }); Feel free to contact […]