Comments on: SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Bonus: Creating a Title Based on Dropdowns with jQuery

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:34:36 +0000

Hi Jim,
Nice post and solution! As Matt says,it is going to be really usefull.
Regarding the various types of dropdowns, I recalled a post from Marc Anderson thta may be a good complement: http://sympmarc.com/2010/05/19/two-types-of-sharepoint-forms-dropdowns/

Greg

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:15:30 +0000

Good. I like to be helpful. ;)

By: Matt Bramer

Matt Bramer — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:59:24 +0000

Just looking for a plug n play solution for questions that crop up on the STP. This will definitely help!

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:53:13 +0000

Sure, Matt. You could do that, too.

The way I see it is that you could experiment with the DOM and give the container TD a unique title attribute (e.g. title=’mySelect’). Then your jQuery would look for the TD and check to see if you’re dealing with an input or a select.

if ($(”td[title='mySelect'] select”).length > 0) {
// it’s a select
} else {
// it’s an input
};

I’m not sure you’d save any keystrokes or complexity over trying the most common and then trying the other if you come up with undefined.

Does that help?

Blessings,
Jim Bob

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:47:24 +0000

Jim,
Do you think there is a way to write a test in jQuery to check these drop-downs and apply different code if they are > 19 ?