Comments on: jQuery “Populate” plugin

By: Zane

Zane — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:15:24 +0000

Just letting you know that I was getting some weird errors and had to change a line of code:

var parseJSON = function (obj, path)

That was what I changed the parseJSON function line to. It eliminated my issue and didnt seem to introduce any other problems. Just letting you know in case you wanted to add that into your next release. Thanks

By: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:25:32 +0000

Nope – just a use if you want to. I should probably put one in as someone else commented on that. I’m not so anal that I care, but apparently others do

By: jim

jim — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:41:32 +0000

Hi Dave,

Is there a license or copyright or something similar that is associated with your code?

Thanks, Jim

By: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:26 +0000

Hey imarichardson,

Not too sure what you’re doing there. That looks like jQuery not Populate code!

Email me with some details if you like.

By: imarichardson

imarichardson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:17:56 +0000

Great plugin but I’m having an unexplainable behavior. I add the populator call to my page and I see the field value show instantaneously before disappearing. It’s as if the value gets added then immediately removed. As I mentioned I can see it blink and then disappear.

Javascript:
$( "#firstName" ).val( value );

HTML

By: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:18:35 +0000

Just to let everyone know, I’ve finally got round to updating the plugin. Also, I’ve added support for regular HTML elements, so you should now be able to update labels, error messages, or anything else within a form that is not a regular HTML form control.

Enjoy!

By: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:35:37 +0000

Sweet, thanks for the spot. Populate needs a wee update, so I’ll make sure it gets one.
Thanks

By: Found-a-Bug

Found-a-Bug — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:51:57 +0000

Two issues actually:

1. Internet Explorer will throw an error if an element is undefined in the for loop of populateFormElement(). Add the following below the var element = elements[e]; line:

if(!element) continue; //Prevents undefined errors in IE

2. also in populateFormElement(), the ‘No such element as…’ is always traced when triggered regardless of debug settings.

By: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:29:51 +0000

Thanks chaps, I’ll take a look at these in the next week or so as I have a few updates to do and will see if I can add a fix or two

By: Mark Croxton

Mark Croxton — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:27:09 +0000

Found a bug – the select menu (single) selected value is converted to lowercase, so won’t match the original html value if it has uppercase characters!

Problem line 158:
element.value = value.toString().toLowerCase() || value;

Change to:
element.value = value.toString() || value;