siblings

Efficiently Detect When Sibling Elements Overlap

This formula will detect if any of the specified elements is overlapping a target element: function findIntersectors(targetSelector, intersectorsSelector) { var intersectors = []; var $target = $(targetSelector); var tAxis = $target.offset(); var t_x = [tAxis.left, tAxis.left + $target.outerWidth()]; var t_y = [tAxis.top, tAxis.top + $target.outerHeight()]; $(intersectorsSelector).each(function() { var $this = $(this); var thisPos = $this.offset(); … Read more

How to display and hide a div with CSS?

To hide an element, use: display: none; visibility: hidden; To show an element, use: display: block; visibility: visible; The difference is: Visibility handles the visibility of the tag, the display handles space it occupies on the page. If you set the visibility and do not change the display, even if the tags are not seen, … Read more

XPath:: Get following Sibling

You should be looking for the second tr that has the td that equals ‘ Color Digest ‘, then you need to look at either the following sibling of the first td in the tr, or the second td. Try the following: //tr[td=’Color Digest’][2]/td/following-sibling::td[1] or //tr[td=’Color Digest’][2]/td[2] http://www.xpathtester.com/saved/76bb0bca-1896-43b7-8312-54f924a98a89

Is there a way to select sibling nodes?

Well… sure… just access the parent and then the children. node.parentNode.childNodes[] or… using jQuery: $(‘#innerId’).siblings() Edit: Cletus as always is inspiring. I dug further. This is how jQuery gets siblings essentially: function getChildren(n, skipMe){ var r = []; for ( ; n; n = n.nextSibling ) if ( n.nodeType == 1 && n != skipMe) … Read more

Sibling package imports

Tired of sys.path hacks? There are plenty of sys.path.append -hacks available, but I found an alternative way of solving the problem in hand. Summary Wrap the code into one folder (e.g. packaged_stuff) Create setup.py script where you use setuptools.setup(). (see minimal setup.py below) Pip install the package in editable state with pip install -e <myproject_folder> … Read more