jQuery Forum

I have a dialog window that I have defined as:
var top = 50;
var left = 35;
$('#commandMenu').dialog({
    draggable: true,
    height: 70,
    width: 180,
    position: [left, top]
});
When I open the dialog box and firebug inspect it the style for the
height is auto. Once I have dragged the dialog the height gets set to
the right size. Is there some setting that I am missing that tells it
to resize on the first open?
I'm using the latest 1.3.2 of jQuery and the 1.7.1 or jQuery UI.

With the code being stored on Google (
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/index.html#jquery )
would it not be beneficial to have that information shown next to the
download area so people know that they can link to the version on
google's servers. The only time I can think when you really have to
store the script locally is when you are using SSL.
Any thoughts?
Randy

I was using the jQuery() to create a DOM element using HTML, then
tried to use a selector on the new DOM element and noticed that the
selection did not recognize the root element... is that supposed to be
that way?
For example:
$tempForm = $('<form><input type="submit" value="Go!"></form>');
$('form', $tempForm).submit(function(){ alert('I was here'); return
false; });
Does nothing. But if you make it so the form is not the root element
(eg '<div><form><input type="submit" value="Go!"></form></div>') then
the selector works fine...
Thanks,
Randy

I was doing a checkout of the trunk ( http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
) and I ran into trouble with the external reference for the trunk. it
is trying to checkout themes => http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ui/themes
Looking at the repository for the ui it appears that the location for
the theme directory has changed to be in the trunk directory instead
of the ui/themes.
Could someone change the svn:externals property on the trunk to point
to http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/themes/ ?
Thanks,
Randy

I was just playing with the sortables in the 1.5 release and was
curious what changed from the 1.5rc1 to 1.5 that caused links in the
handles to not work?
I was trying to look at some of the tickets closed for the 1.5 release
but didn't see anything directly related.
Anyone have any insight into what has changed? I know that i could
make it so that just a portion of the div was draggable but it would
be preferrable to have the entire div be draggable and keep the link
inside it working.
Thanks,
Randy

I am working on a plugin and was trying to figure out what was
happening to break my code..
I have in my plugin functions similar to the following:
$.fn.pluginName = function() {}
$.fn.pluginName.oneThing = function () {
...
}
$.fn.pluginName.anotherThing = function () {
...
}
I try to call it like so:
$('#idOfElement').pluginName.oneThing();
The problem is that the this.each() is 'not defined' when I use it in
the oneThing or anotherThing methods. If I do the methods as:
$.fn.oneThing and $.fn.anotherThing it works fine... but not when they
are under the pluginName. Why would this happen and is there a way to
fix it? or am i trying to do the wrong thing to namespace the methods?
Thanks in advance.

What would have to be done to the slider to make it so that you can
pass an array into the startValue option? I have a slider that has two
slider handles, which is fine, but when I try to set the startValues
it doesn't work when you have multiple slider handles... is there no
way to add more than one start value for the handles?
Thanks,
Randy

I am trying to create an XML document similar to the one that is found
on the http://visualjquery.com/index.xml where it is basically an XML
document of all the methods in jQuery. But when I downloaded the code
from the repository and ran the ant file all the XML documents that
were generated had a blank <doc/> element in the xml file.
Is there something in the process that I am missing?

I have been trying to implement a set of sortable elements and the
elements have iFrames in them. I am pretty new to jQuery but I figured
out how to create the sortable but when you try to drag an element
with the iFrame in it the frame is reloaded when you drop it. What can
i do to remedy this? Can I not use iframes in a sortable without it
refreshing the page on drop?
Thanks