How can jQuery deferred be used?

The best use case I can think of is in caching AJAX responses. Here’s a modified example from Rebecca Murphey’s intro post on the topic: Basically, if the value has already been requested once before it’s returned immediately from the cache. Otherwise, an AJAX request fetches the data and adds it to the cache. The $.when/.then doesn’t care … Read more

jQuery get textarea text

Why would you want to convert key strokes to text? Add a button that sends the text inside the textarea to the server when clicked. You can get the text using the value attribute as the poster before has pointed out, or using jQuery’s API:

Best way to store a key=>value array in JavaScript?

That’s just what a JavaScript object is: You can loop through it using for..in loop: See also: Working with objects (MDN). In ECMAScript6 there is also Map (see the browser compatibility table there): An Object has a prototype, so there are default keys in the map. This could be bypassed by using map = Object.create(null) since ES5, but was seldomly done. … Read more

What are the difference between $(document).bind(‘ready’, function) and $(document).ready(function() {})

The difference is, as the docs say There is also $(document).on( “ready”, handler ), deprecated as of jQuery 1.8. This behaves similarly to the ready method but if the ready event has already fired and you try to .on( “ready” ) the bound handler will not be executed. Ready handlers bound this way are executed after any bound by the … Read more

ajax jquery simple get request

It seems to me, this is a cross-domain issue since you’re not allowed to make a request to a different domain. You have to find solutions to this problem: – Use a proxy script, running on your server that will forward your request and will handle the response sending it to the browser Or – … Read more