I didn’t realize how rusty one could get in just a week!

This is the code I was trying to use — a function I’ve used hundreds of times — and I kept getting the “missing : after property id” error.

$(document).ready({
});

Did you catch it? Neither did I

Well, according to the jQuery API the .ready() function takes a function — do you see my error now?

$(document).ready(function() {
});

Kudos to user113716 for [indirectly] pointing out my flaw, and with that silly bug I’m off to get another cup of caffeine.

Nick

Quite literally two hours later and I finally figured out how JavaScript handles defining arrays in succession. The issue was that I was getting the same values for array’s defined in succession — aka on the same line — even though they had different index names.

Below is an example of my code:

var $array = new Array();
$array[0] = $array[1] = new Array();

$array[0][0] = ‘hello’;
$array[0][1] = ‘world’;

console.log($array[0][0]); // ‘hello’
console.log($array[1][0]); // ‘hello’

The underlining issue with this code is that when defining array’s in succession the array indices will share the same memory reference; in PHP — my native language — it defines a separate memory reference for each array.

Nick

Hopefully you have found this article before you bashed your head open with your keyboard; if not, please seek medical help before continuing.

When using the .focus() method today, I came across an issue with Firefox — though, I would assume it is for all legitimate browsers. If you are having trouble getting .focus() working, kindly apply the following code.

setTimeout( function(){document.getElementById('field').focus();}, 10 );

Unfortunately, I have no reason why it works, I merely know that it does work.

Nick