I am using jqMobi ( NOT jQuery Mobile ) and I would like to be able to dynamically load a panel with some remote html page and then navigate to it. I have read the documentation that shows how to add a new panel with html in it, but what I'd like to do is something like this:
$.ui.addContentDiv("newDiv","somePage.html","Some Title");
I know that I could do something like this:
$.get("somePage.html",function(data){
$.ui.addContentDiv("newDiv",data,"Some Title");
$.ui.loadContent("newDiv", false, false, "up");
});
But I'm wondering if there is something better out there. Also, the above method does nothing if there is a failure, so any suggestions that you may have about that would be appreciated. As far as I can tell, there is no failure callback for the get method
There is an easier way - just link to the HTML page and it handles the xhr request for you. data-persist-ajax caches it in the dom, so future request do not load it.
My Page
Related
I am currently developing a website that will dynamically load the page content using ajax triggered by hash changes.
The code looks like this
$("*").delegate("a", "click", function () {
// Trigger Hash Change
window.location.hash = $(this).attr("href");
return false;
});
$(window).bind('hashchange', function () {
let newHash = window.location.hash.substring(1);
$("#main-content").load(newHash + " #ajax-content", function (responseTxt, statusTxt, xhr) {
}).hide().fadeIn();
});
Basically what I am working on now is making the URL look "Pretty", I have modified the .htaccess file to remove the .html extension
So a URL that looks like this
www.example.com/about.html
will become this
www.example.com/about
If I navigate the index (home) "www.example.com" page of the website and then navigate from there to the about page, the URL looks fine. "www.example.com#about" since the server does not display the "index" in the URL.
However, if I navigate straight to the about page like this www.example.com/about, then from the about page to another page, for example, the contact page. I get a URL that looks like this www.example.com/about#contact. When it should look like this www.example.com#contact.
My question is what is the best way to handle this? should I use jquery to redirect all to the index page and then add the hash to load the correct content? or is there some way I can not display the unnecessary part of the URL?
I hope my question was clear, I'm new to the server-side stuff involving the .htaccess file. FOr the ajax stuff I was following this tutorial from CSS tricks
https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/85-best-practices-dynamic-content/
You can use history.pushState
window.history.pushState("object or string", "Title", "/new-url");
The url will be www.example.com/new-url
in fact you can get history.state after use this method.
console.log(window.history.state)
output should be "object or string"
You can see the docs here.
Remember to use / to override the entire path.
To do what i think that you want, you can just override the url to / and set the hash.
This is probably not the best way to do this, but I have managed to redirect any page to the home page and then replace the / with the hash value so that the site wont end up wit "messy" URLs.
if(window.location.pathname != "/home.html")
{
window.location.replace("home.html" + window.location.pathname.replace("/", "#"));
}
what happens id the user navigates to "*www.example.com/about*" they will actually be sent to the homepage with the #about.html. So the never end up like this "*www.example.com/about#about*"
This is an MVC razor page, that works fine on first load.
If I use a reload from javascript or even a refresh in the browser menu (Chrome), I get
Server Error in '/' Application.
>The view 'actionChangeUserSentence' or its master was not found or no view
>engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
>~/Views/Conduct/actionChangeUserSentence.aspx
>~/Views/Conduct/actionChangeUserSentence.ascx
>~/Views/Shared/actionChangeUserSentence.aspx
>~/Views/Shared/actionChangeUserSentence.ascx
>~/Views/Conduct/actionChangeUserSentence.cshtml
>~/Views/Conduct/actionChangeUserSentence.vbhtml
>~/Views/Shared/actionChangeUserSentence.cshtml
>~/Views/Shared/actionChangeUserSentence.vbhtml
> and so on...
meaning the url string is considered a non MVC url.
I tried several possibilities to reload, including:
-location.reload();
-window.location.reload(false); with both false and true
-location.href = location.href;
-history.go(0);
By the way, the reason I need to refresh is that js drawing on a html canvas doesn't work except after full page (re)load, reason still unknown. But anyway, a browser menu refresh should of course always work, I guess...
Thanks for any help.
I will suggest put that code in on ready function of drawing canvas may this will help you
Use just an Response.Redirect("/<your page>");
So I have a curious situation and I don't think it's going to work, but I figured I'd ask in case it is and someone knows how to. I am using a 3rd party website to create marketing funnels. You can add your own custom html and javascript, but it parses out the html in a rather unfavorable manor. Basically you specify an element on the page and it appends it as a data attribute and dynamically loads it into the DOM. Since this is happening this way, my app isn't being initialized because it's not in the DOM on page load. Is there a way to make this work? I'll explain a little deeper my configuration.
I add custom html such as:
<div data-ng-app="AppName"><div data-ng-controller="ControllerName"><div>perform controller logic here</div></div>
As you can see, this needs to be in the DOM for the app to initialize and, well work. Is there a way to initialize the app after the page has loaded dynamically? I can add my own JS files in the custom html field, but thats about as far as I can go for customization. Any help is appreciated!
Maybe you should execute angular's bootstrap function manually in your script after the required dom loaded.
var app = angular.module('appName', []);
app.controller([...]);
angular.bootstrap(document.getElementById('divId'), ['appName']);
For more information, you can see this doc https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/function/angular.bootstrap
I'm currently trying to build a new website, nothing special, nice and small, but I'm stuck at the very beginning.
My problems are clean URLs and page navigation. I want to do it "the right way".
What I would like to have:
I use CodeIgniter to get clean URLs like
"www.example.com/hello/world"
jQuery helps me using ajax, so I can
.load() additional content
Now I want to use HTML5 features like pushstate to
get rid of the # in the URL
It should be possible to go back and forth without a page refresh but the page will still display the right content according to the current URL.
It should also be possible to reload a page without getting a 404 error. The site should exist thanks to CodeIgniter. (there is a controller and a view)
For example:
A very basic website. Two links, called "foo" and "bar" and a emtpy div box beneath them.
The basic URL is example.com
When you click on "foo" the URL changes to "example.com/foo" without reloading and the div box gets new content with jQuery .load(). The same goes for the other link, just of course different content and URL.
After clicking "foo" and then "bar" the back button will bring me back to "example.com/foo" with the according content. If I load this link directly or refresh the page, it will look the same. No 404 error or something.
Just think about this page and tell me how you would do this.
I would really love to have this kind of navigation and so I tried several things.
So far...
I know how to use CodeIgniter to get the URLs like this. I know how to use jQuery to load additional content and while I don't fully understand the html5 pushstate stuff, I at least got it to work somehow.
But I can't get it to work all together.
My code right now is a mess, that's the reason I don't really want to post it here. I looked at different tutorials and copy pasted some code together. Would be better to upload my CI folder I guess.
Some of the tutorials I looked at:
Dive into HTML5
HTML5 demos
Mozilla manipulating the browser history
Saner HTML5 history
Github: History.js
(max. number of links reached :/)
I think my main problem is, that everybody tries to make it compatible with all browsers and different versions, adds scripts/jQuery plugins and whatnot and I get confused by all the additional code. There is more code between my script-tags then actual html content.
Could somebody post the most basic method how to use HTML5 for my example page?
My failed attemp:
On my test page, when I go back, the URL changes, but the div box will still show the same content, not the old one. I also don't know how to change the URL in the script according to the href attribute from the link. Is there something like $(this).attr('href'), that changes according to which link I click? Right now I would have to use a script for every link, which of course is bad.
When I refresh the site, CodeIgniter kicks in and loads the view, but really only the view by itself, the one I loaded with ajax, not the whole page. But I guess that should be easy to fix with a layout and the right controller settings. Haven't paid much attention to this yet.
Thanks in advance for any help.
If you have suggestions, ideas, or simple just want to mention something, please let me know.
regards
DiLer
I've put up a successful minimal example of HTML5 history here: http://cairo140.github.com/html5-history-example/one.html
The easiest way to get into HTML5 pushstate in my opinion is to ignore the framework for a while and use the most simplistic state transition possible: a wholesale replacement of the <body> and <title> elements. Outside of those elements, the rest of the markup is probably just boilerplate, although if it varies (e.g., if you change the class on HTML in the backend), you can adapt that.
What a dynamic backend like CI does is essentially fake the existence of data at particular locations (identified by the URL) by generating it dynamically on the fly. We can abstract away from the effect of the framework by literally creating the resources and putting them in locations through which your web server (Apache, probably) will simply identify them and feed them on through. We'll have a very simple file system structure relative to the domain root:
/one.html
/two.html
/assets/application.js
Those are the only three files we're working with.
Here's the code for the two HTML files. If you're at the level when you're dealing with HTML5 features, you should be able to understand the markup, but if I didn't make something clear, just leave a comment, and I'll walk you through it:
one.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="assets/application.js"></script>
<title>One</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>One</h1>
Two
</div>
</body>
</html>
two.html
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="assets/application.js"></script>
<title>Two</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>Two</h1>
One
</div>
</body>
</html>
You'll notice that if you load one.html through your browser, you can click on the link to two.html, which will load and display a new page. And from two.html, you can do the same back to one.html. Cool.
Now, for the history part:
assets/application.js
$(function(){
var replacePage = function(url) {
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'get',
dataType: 'html',
success: function(data){
var dom = $(data);
var title = dom.filter('title').text();
var html = dom.filter('.container').html();
$('title').text(title);
$('.container').html(html);
}
});
}
$('a').live('click', function(e){
history.pushState(null, null, this.href);
replacePage(this.href);
e.preventDefault();
});
$(window).bind('popstate', function(){
replacePage(location.pathname);
});
});
How it works
I define replacePage within the jQuery ready callback to do some straightforward loading of the URL in the argument and to replace the contents of the title and .container elements with those retrieved remotely.
The live call means that any link clicked on the page will trigger the callback, and the callback pushes the state to the href in the link and calls replacePage. It also uses e.preventDefault to prevent the link from being processed the normal way.
Finally, there's a popstate event that fires when a user uses browser-based page navigation (back, forward). We bind a simple callback to that event. Of note is that I couldn't get the version on the Dive Into HTML page to work for some reason in FF for Mac. No clue why.
How to extend it
This extremely basic example can more or less be transplanted onto any site because it does a very uncreative transition: HTML replacement. I suggest you can use this as a foundation and transition into more creative transitions. One example of what you could do would be to emulate what Github does with the directory navigation in its repositories. It's an intermediate manoever that requires floats and overflow management. You could start with a simpler transition like appending the .container in the loaded page to the DOM and then animating the old container to {height: 0}.
Addressing your specific "For example"
You're on the right track for using HTML5 history, but you need to clarify your idea of exactly what /foo and /bar will contain. Basically, you're going to have three pages: /, /foo, and /bar. / will have an empty container div. /foo will be identical to / except in that container div has some foo content in it. /bar will be identical to /foo except in that the container div has some bar content in it. Now, the question comes to how you would extract the contents of the container through Javascript. Assuming that your /foo body tag looked something like this:
<body>
foo
bar
<div class="container">foo</div>
</body>
Then you would extract it from the response data through var html = $(data).filter('.container').html() and then put it back into the parent page through $('.container').html(html). You use filter instead of the much more reasonable find because from some wacky reason, jQuery's DOM parser produces a jQuery object containing every child of the head and every child of the body elements instead of just a jQuery object wrapping the html element. I don't know why.
The rest is just adapting this back into the "vanilla" version above. If you are stuck at any particular stage, let me know, and I can guide you better though it.
Code
https://github.com/cairo140/html5-history-example
Try this in your controller:
if (!$this->input->is_ajax_request())
$this->load->view('header');
$this->load->view('your_view', $data);
if (!$this->input->is_ajax_request())
$this->load->view('footer');
The VB.Net desktop app uses the IE browser control to navigate the web. When a normal page loads the document_complete event fires and I can read the resulting page and go from there. The issue I am having is that the page I am driving is written with AJAX, so the document complete event never fires. Furthermore, when you view the source of the page after it loaded a new portion via AJAX, it hasn't change. How are people handling this? What are my options?
This solution might solve your problem.
prerequists:
AxwebBrowser control,
reference to mshtml.dll
Dim axmshtml As mshtml.HTMLDocument = YourAxWebBrowserControl.Document
Dim HTMLSource As String = axmshtml.body.innerHTML 'html source, including DOM changes
If you know what you are looking for you can put the above code in a timer/loop
and simply monitor the page source for changes.
If wb is your webbrowser control, then instead of getting the HTML by using:
wb.DocumentText
use:
wb.Document.Body.InnerHtml
This will give you the updated html, reflecting the AJAX update.
As to detecting when the AJAX completes, for me it seems to be triggering a DocumentCompleted event. Not sure why it's different for you.
You need to interact with the Javascript code in the website using the methods on HtmlDocument.
I have seen this kind of behavior with C# when some AJAX scripts created a race condition. Adding the defer attribute to the script tag helped in that case. YMMV.
Not sure if this will work.
When the Ajax call completes, add a random anchor hash to the URL like so: foo.html#23234
then add your code to the NavigateComplete2 event.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa768334%28VS.85%29.aspx
I'm guessing that the page your load in your windows app does an AJAX call, which appears to refresh the page. In that case, the document_complete event isn't fired, because the webpage itself isn't refreshed, but a portion of the page.
I found a similar question about this problem, with an accepted answer in VB.Net.
You can use the ProgressChanged event, it seems to fire during ajax calls