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Tag: link

  • Forcing a Link to Behave Normally – AngularJS

    Hey everyone, Another quick post. Working with AngularJS this morning I had a need for a link to redirect to a login page that was not contained within the “angular” part of the app. Unfortunately Angular was overriding the behavior and trying to route it. The solution is fairly easy for this, simply add a…

  • Stop a Link from Going Anywhere – CSS/JavaScript

    Hey everyone, Another quick one – how to stop a link from doing anything. I’ve just come across a need to use a link that acts as a button. A slight UI issue with this is that clicking a hyperlink will with an href value of ‘#’ will push scroll to the top of the…

  • How to Reset ID of an Element – jQuery

    Hey All, Just a quick post on how to set the ID of an element (in this case a div) with jQuery. I needed to use this to dynamically clone elements. WOOOOOOOOOOOOW $(‘#my_test_id’).attr(‘id’, ‘my_new_id’); The script above sets the id of div to my_new_id. If you’re interested, there’s a whole heap of documentation on the…

  • Allow HTML String – Ruby on Rails

    Just a quick post on how to prevent escaping for HTML within a string. Simply use html_safe?. i.e. The following will show the bold tags as text: <%= "GOOOOOOOGLE”> <b>GOOOOOOOGLE</b> Whereas once we add html_safe the text will be displayed in bold: <%= ("GOOOOOOOGLE”).html_safe?> GOOOOOOOGLE

  • Flash Notice Appearing Twice – Ruby on Rails

    Ran into another flash notice issue, my messages were not disappearing after the first view. My code was as follows: #Create flash warning flash[:warning] = (“This product has been replaced: ” +new_product.title + “”).html_safe It turns out that all you have to do to fix this issue is the following: flash.now[:warning] = (“This product has…

  • Adding a Link Within a Flash Notice/Message – Ruby on Rails

    I came across an instance where I needed to add a link to flash notice tonight. Manually creating a hyperlink seems to work fine, however I was chasing a rubyish way of doing things: flash[:notice] = “Order created – Click here to pay for it!”   Luckily a quick Google revealed the answer: flash[:notice] =…

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