Comments on: New Demo – Impromptu with Ajax

By: trent

trent — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:29:37 +0000

Opps, that was a recent change that slipped by that should have been:

var jqib = jQuery(msgbox).appendTo(b);

Thanks for reporting that!

By: Chris C

Chris C — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:13:44 +0000

It’s worth mentioning that if you have changed the default jquery prefix like I have so I can run jquery alongside prototype you need to modifiy jquery-imprompt.js on line 52 -

from :

var jqib = $(msgbox).appendTo(b);

to :

var jqib = $j(msgbox).appendTo(b);

Where $j is whatever you prefix is set to.

Great script and thanks! :D

By: Ben K

Ben K — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:37:10 +0000

Thanks again Trent,
For my own hacking purposes, i’ve managed to almost get the scrolling working but i’m stuck on the last bit.
i’ve swaped the following lines around for my own hack of a site:
jqib.css({ position:”absolute” , height: w.height(), width: “100%”, top: w.scrollTop(), left: w.scrollLeft(), right: 0, bottom: 0 });
jqif.css({ position: (ie6)? “absolute” : “fixed”, height: w.height(), width: “100%”, top: 0, left:0, right: 0, bottom: 0 });

this allows the fader div to be fixed, and the prompt to be absolute.
however i can’t make the fader div to be fixed in ie6,
no matter what i put into the “var ie6scroll = function(){ ” it just don’t work =(
when i do jqib.css({ top: w.scrollTop() }); it seems to be offset by the height of the jqib div

also 1 more note: on line 141 is it supposed to be b.unbind or w.unbind?

By: trent

trent — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:38:58 +0000

Hi Ben, I will look at adding your ie6 fix for the next version. As far as the scrolling issue I’ve seen this before and haven’t thought of a good solution yet, but it’s only once in a blue moon this occurs..

As far as the ie7 thing I’ve not had this happen before, however luckily its easy enough to tweek the css, thats why I tried to do as little styling as possible and leave the rest to css. Thanks for reporting these, I’ll be getting to work :)

By: Ben K

Ben K — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:31:42 +0000

also i ran into a problem in ie7, where the z-index would not apply correctly and elements would appear behind my table etc..
I had to apply the z-index style specifically to the “box” style to get it to work
i.e.
div.jqibox{
z-index: 999; /*stupid ie7 */
}

By: Ben K

Ben K — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:26:50 +0000

two points questions/
1) in ie6 , if scrolled right, the prompt appears off-screen, this can be fixed by replacing
(line 104) add jqib.css({ top: w.scrollTop(), left:w.scrollLeft() });
(line 128) replace left:0 with left:(ie6)? w.scrollLeft():0

2) a request,if the prompt is large the buttons may appear offscreen. I would like to be able to scroll the screen onto the prompt, while leaving the background fade in position.
I have previously hacked in a “scrolled” flag so that it would leave the dialogue positioned on the screen, while the fader overlay would continue to be “fixed” i’ve been trying to hack at it in the new version with no luck. any help appreciated!

By: apot

apot — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:02:59 +0000

dirt simple.. you’ve got ajax json down with impromptu and jsonsql makes it even more fun. for forms impromptu is far ahead of the other solutions