First, is this possible? Fighting this watch; I think the reason my events do not shoot is because one event is disabling / rewriting another. I want to associate two events changewith the same element. How can i do this?
As requested, here is the function I am struggling with:
(function($) {
$.fn.cascade = function(name, trigger, url) {
var cache = {};
var queue = {};
this.each(function() {
var $input = $(this);
var $trigger = $input.closest('tr').prev('tr').find(trigger);
var addOptions = function($select, options) {
$select.append('<option value="">- Select -</option>');
for(var i in options) {
$select.append('<option value="{0}">{1}</option>'.format(options[i][0], options[i][1]));
}
$select.val($input.val()).trigger('change');
}
var $select = $('<select>')
.attr('class', $input.attr('class'))
.bind('change', function() {
$input.val($(this).val());
})
.data('name', name)
.data('trigger', $trigger);
$input.after($select);
$trigger.bind('change', function() {
var value = $(this).val();
$select.empty();
if(value == '' || value == null) {
$select.trigger('change');
return;
}
if(value in cache) {
addOptions($select, cache[value]);
} else if(value in queue) {
$select.addClass('loading');
queue[value].push($select);
} else {
var getDict = {}
getDict[name] = value;
if($(this).data('trigger')) {
getDict[$(this).data('name')] = $(this).data('trigger').val();
}
$select.addClass('loading');
queue[value] = [$select];
$.getJSON(url, getDict, function(options) {
cache[value] = options;
while(queue[value].length > 0) {
var $select = queue[value].pop();
$select.removeClass('loading');
addOptions($select, options);
}
});
}
}).trigger('change');
});
return this;
}
})(jQuery);
The corresponding HTML snippet is even longer ... but essentially it is a selection box with a bunch of years, and then <input>, which (apparently) is replaced by <select>, showing what the car is doing for this year, and then another <input>, which is replaced with models for make / year.
Actually, it seems to work pretty well, except for loading on the page. The initial values are erased.
, $select.bind() :
$('select.province').live('change', function() {
$(this).siblings('input.province').val($(this).val());
});
$('select.make').live('change', function() {
$(this).siblings('input.make').val($(this).val());
});
$('select.model').live('change', function() {
$(this).siblings('input.model').val($(this).val());
});
, . .
$('input.province').cascade('country', 'select.country', '/get-provinces.json');
$('input.make').cascade('year', 'select.year', '/get-makes.json');
$('input.model').cascade('make', 'select.make', '/get-models.json');