HTML in Mootools' Element constructor? - constructor

I'm currently using the Mootools Element constructor method to dynamically add a new row into a table.
function newPermission(somedata) {
var newUserPerm = new Element('tr', {
'html': '<td>foo</td><td>bar</td>'
});
newUserPerm.inject('permissions_table');
}
However, upon checking the resulting code, the following HTML string gets added to the table:
<tr>foobar</tr>
I'm sure there's some way to send the HTML tags as well, but I can't find much on it here, except one other question, in which the user had an outdated ver. of Mootools...

this has been fixed in mootools 1.3 beta and i think only affects tables (otherwise html setters via element constructors are fine) - in the mean while, do not set the html through the element constructor but set the it after you create the TR:
var tr = new Element('tr').inject(document.id("foo").getElement("tbody"), "top");
tr.set("html", '<td>foo</td><td>bar</td>');
here it is working as you had it in 1.3: http://www.jsfiddle.net/dimitar/ALsBK/
and here it is breaking in 1.2.4: http://www.jsfiddle.net/dimitar/ALsBK/1/
and working in 1.2.4: http://www.jsfiddle.net/dimitar/ALsBK/2/

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jQuery - Strings and targeting

I've tried to google my question but it makes me even more confused. My question is:
Here's the jQuery code:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).resize(function() {
if ($(this).width() < 200) {
$("p").css("color", "red");
} else {
$("p").css("color", "green");
}
});
}
Why do we write (this) and not ("this") ?
How do I know if (document) and (window) should be written with " " - and why's that?
Maybe you could link me somewhere that explains my issue. My code apparently works either way, I'm just curious about the why.
In JavaScript namespace, this is reserved [source].
The JavaScript object literal this refers to the inherited object from the present state in the current execution.
Another example of this we can see is when we are looping through an array and the object this would symbolize the current array object. You may, for example, see this.title, or this.description if we were iterating through a database array of blog posts.
this in jQuery refers to the inherited object. When we add the quotation marks, and it becomes a string, such as "this". This makes jQuery parse it as a DOM selector.
Then we are now looking for the HTML DOM selector <this>, which to my knowledge, does not actually exist in the accepted HTML syntax standards.
As otherwise stated, the concept of this will become tricky when you are working in other JavaScript environments, such as React or Angular. Within the context of a functional component, this becomes the state, such as handling user sessions.

Polymer - cloneNode including __data

I am using the library dragula for doing some drag & drop stuff.
Dragula internally uses cloneNode(true) to create a copy of the dragged element that will be appended to the body to show the preview image while dragging.
Unfortunately, if dragging a polymer element, the bound data get's not cloned. By consequence the contents of the dragged element (e.g. <div>[[someString]]</div>) are empty.
Is there a solution for this?
I actually do not need the data to be bound for my element, it is just a "read-only" element that displays some data that does not change after being initialized. Is there maybe a way to somehow "resolve" the strings to the html without being bound anymore?
Thank you already!
Found a solution myself. You have to override the cloneNode method inside the polymer class:
cloneNode(deep) {
let cloned = super.cloneNode(deep);
for (let prop in MyClass.properties) {
cloned[prop] = this[prop];
}
return cloned;
}

Android ListView binding programmatically

There are many examples of doing this in axml, but I would like to have a complete binding using code behind. To be honest, I would like to have NO axml, but seems like creating all the controls programmatically is a nightmare.
I first tried the suggestions at:
MvxListView create binding for template layout from code
I have my list binding from code-behind, and I get six rows (so source binding is working); but the cells itself does not bind.
Then at the following url:
Odd issue with MvvmCross, MvxListViewItem on Android
Stuart has the following comment: Have looked through. In this case, I don't think you want to use DelayBind. DelayBind is used to delay the binding action until next time the DataContext is set. In Android's MvxAdapter/MvxListItemView case, the DataContext is passed in the ctor - so DataContext isn't set again until the cell is reused. (This is different to iOS MvxTableDataSource).
So in essence, the only example I see shows DelayBind, which shouldn't work.
Can someone please show me some examples... thanks in advance.
Added reply to Comments:
Cheesebaron, first of all, a huge thank you and respect for all your contributions;
Now, why not use axml? Well, as programmers, we all have our own preferences and way of doing stuff - I guess I am old school where we didn't have any gui designer (not really true).
Real reasons:
Common Style: I have a setup where Core has all the style details, including what all the colors would be. My idea is, each platform would get the style details from core and update accordingly. It's easy for me to create controls with the correct style this way.
Copy-Paste across platform (which then I can even have as linked files if I wanted). For example, I have a login screen with web-like verification, where a red error text appears under a control; overall on that screen I have around 10 items that needs binding. I have already got iOS version working - so starting on Droid, I copied the whole binding section from ios, and it worked perfectly. So, the whole binding, I can make it same across all platform... Any possible error in my way will stop at building, which I think is a major advantage over axml binding. Even the control creation is extremely similar, where I have helpers with same method name.
Ofcourse I understand all the additional layout that has to be handled; to be honest, it's not that bad if one really think it through; I have created a StackPanel for Droid which is based on WP - that internally handles all the layouts for child views; so for LinearLayout, all I do is setup some custom parameters, and let my panel deal with it. Relative is a different story; so far, I have only one screen that's relative, and I can even make it Linear to reduce my additional layout code.
So, from my humble point of view, for my style, code-behind creation allows me to completely copy all my bindings (I do have some custom binding factories to allow that), copy all my control create lines; then only adding those controls to the view is the only part that is different (then again, droid and WP are almost identical). So there is no way I can miss something on one platform and all are forced to be the same. It also allows me to change all the styles for every platform just by changing the core. Finally, any binding error is detected during compile - and I love that.
My original question wasn't about NOT using axml... it was on how to use MvxListView where all the binding is done in code-behind; as I have explained, I got the list binding, but not the item/cell binding working.
Thanks again in advance.
Here is part of my LoginScreen from droid; I think it's acceptable amount of code for being without axml file.
//======================================================================================================
// create and add all controls
//======================================================================================================
var usernameEntry = ControlHelper.GetUITextFieldCustom(this, "Username.", maxLength: 20);
var usernameError = AddErrorLabel<UserAuthorization, string>(vm => ViewModel.Authorization.Username);
var passwordEntry = ControlHelper.GetUITextFieldCustom(this, "Password.", maxLength: 40, secureTextEntry: true);
var passwordError = AddErrorLabel<UserAuthorization, string>(vm => ViewModel.Authorization.Password);
var loginButton = ControlHelper.GetUIButtonMain(this);
var rememberMe = new UISwitch(this);
var joinLink = ControlHelper.GetUIButtonHyperLink(this, textAlignment: UITextAlignment.Center);
var copyRightText = ControlHelper.GetUILabel(this, textAlignment: UITextAlignment.Center);
var copyRightSite = ControlHelper.GetUIButtonHyperLink(this, textAlignment: UITextAlignment.Center);
var layout = new StackPanel(this, Orientation.Vertical)
{
Spacing = 15,
SubViews = new View[]
{
ControlHelper.GetUIImageView(this, Resource.Drawable.logo),
usernameEntry,
usernameError,
passwordEntry,
passwordError,
loginButton,
rememberMe,
joinLink,
ControlHelper.GetSpacer(this, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MatchParent, weight: 2),
copyRightText,
copyRightSite
}
};
I just came across a similar situation myself using Mvx4.
The first link you mentioned had it almost correct AND when you combine it from Staurts comment in the second link and just remove the surrounding DelayBind call, everything should work out ok -
public class CustomListItemView
: MvxListItemView
{
public MvxListItemView(Context context,
IMvxLayoutInflater layoutInflater,
object dataContext,
int templateId)
: base(context, layoutInflater, dataContext, templateId)
{
var control = this.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.list_complex_title);
var set = this.CreateBindingSet<CustomListViewItem, YourThing>();
set.Bind(control).To(vm => vm.Title);
set.Apply();
}
}
p.s. I have asked for an Edit to the original link to help others.

Dynamically re-bind html.ValidationMessageFor html helper?

Some background information, I am using ASP.NET with the MVC framework and html helpers.
I currently have a dynamic table where each row has a series of input boxes. Each of these input boxes has a validation message. This works completely fine for the first row. However, when other rows are dynamically added (with the IDs' being changed along with other attributes to match the row number) the validation message no longer works.
Both the row and validation message span are being replicated properly.
In JQuery, this is usually just a problem with the binding, so for each row I would simply re-bind the IDs'. However I am not really to sure how to approach them in ASP.NET.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks
Alright, I have finally figured this out.
In MVC, in order to handle the validation, it import a JQuery file known as jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js.
However, similar to JQuery, this only occurs at the very beginning when the page is loaded. So, when you add a new dynamic element, you need to remove the bindings and the re-bind them again.
Basically, in your function for adding a new element, put the following lines of code AFTER you have added the new element:
$("#form").removeData("validator");
$("#form").removeData("unobtrusiveValidation");
$.validator.unobtrusive.parse("#form");
For example:
function addInfoDynamic()
{
document.getElementById("#myDiv").innerHTML += "New Content";
$("#form").removeData("validator");
$("#form").removeData("unobtrusiveValidation");
$.validator.unobtrusive.parse("#form");
}

cloneNode issue with HTML5 nodes in IE

I am trying to clone an HTML node using cloneNode() method of browser's DOM API and even using Jquery clone() function. The API works perfectly fine with HTML tags, However i am facing some issues while using it with HTML5 tags like time e.g.
The issue is that following <time> tag content <time class="storydate">April 7, 2010</time> gets converted to: <:time class=storydate awpUniq="912">April 7, 2010. Although IE renders the original time node correctly then why such issue with the clone API.
And this issue isn't observed in FF/ chrome. Please give some clue how to avoid this
Is this of any help? From the HTML5 Shiv issue list:
http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/issues/detail?id=28
Links to
http://pastie.org/935834#49
solution seems to be:
// Issue: <HTML5_elements> become <:HTML5_elements> when element is cloneNode'd
// Solution: use an alternate cloneNode function, the default is broken and should not be used in IE anyway (for example: it should not clone events)
// Example of HTML5-safe element cloning
function html5_cloneNode(element) {
var div = html5_createElement('div'); // create a HTML5-safe element
div.innerHTML = element.outerHTML; // set HTML5-safe element's innerHTML as input element's outerHTML
return div.firstChild; // return HTML5-safe element's first child, which is an outerHTML clone of the input element
} // critique: function could be written more cross-browser friendly?