MediaWiki:Common.js

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/* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */
 
$( function ()  {
 
//the below doesn't work, or, I don't know how to call the function
var hello_friend = function() {
	window.alert("hello friend!");
	}
 
//the below does work!!
$(document).ready(function(){
$("h2").click(function(){
alert("The h2 was clicked.");
});
});
 
 
//here's a try at JQuery load
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("button").click(function(){ //when the button is clicked
        $("#loadjs").load("demo_test.txt"); //replace whatever is in div1 with the contents of demo_test.txt
    });
});
	// Paste snippet here.
	// Paste as many as you like, only one "$( function () { ... } );" wrapper is needed!
} );
 
//testing to see whether I can load any function
 
function someAlert() {
alert("this is a javascript function being called!");
}
 
//my JQuery_Test_Load as a function
 
function testLoad() {
$(document).ready(function(){ 
                                        jQuery.ajax({
    					url:'http://wordaroundtown.com/wiki/index.php?title=Test_Origin_Text',
    					type:'get',
    					dataType:'html',
    					success:function(data)
   						{ 
   					var _html= jQuery(data);
       					list = _html.find('li'); // gets me an object (maybe?) with four elements
       					for (i = 0; i <= list.length; i++) {
    						console.log(list[i].innerHTML); //I get an error on HTML but it still seems to output correctly
    					        var node = document.createElement("li"); // create a <li> node
    						var textnode = document.createTextNode(list[i].innerHTML); //create a text node
    						node.appendChild(textnode); // append text to li
    						document.getElementById("myList").appendChild(node); // append li to ul with id="myList"
						}
   						}
					});
					//console.log(myList.html());
				});
}