Questions tagged [javascript]
GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT JAVASCRIPT ARE OFF-TOPIC. This tag is for questions relating specifically to the use of JavaScript on the Stack Exchange sites.
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What are the selected vote button colors?
Edit: user3840170's stylesheet does what I was planning to do, and is a cleaner solution than anything I would have come up with.
I'm working on a userscript to reverse the upcoming vote button ...
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Can't comment because of a bug
Wherever I click Add a comment on Stack Exchange sites, even on my own questions, the screen gets like this:
without any possibility to comment. How can I fix it?
I'm using Chrome version 111.0.5563....
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Can the other external JavaScript content be automatically used? [duplicate]
When browsing a Stack Exchange site and encountering a message like
... Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source....
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2023 DOM Changelog for Userscript Community
Here's a thread to catalog any minor DOM updates we do throughout 2023 just to give folks in the user community a bit of a heads up and an official source of documentation around any DOM changes.
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I'm getting "Uncaught ReferenceError: Stacks is not defined" errors in my browser console on Stack Exchange sites
The last few weeks the amount of 'Stacks is not defined' errors is increasing.
This occasionally occurs on any StackExchange site, and throws the following error in the console [1]:
Uncaught ...
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JavaScript is broken
Some things I noticed:
Editing inline is broken
The editing toolbar is missing on the old editor
Tags don't appear
Can't "Review question" to be able to post normally
An error is present ...
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Attempting to protect a question that is no longer eligible for protection silently fails
I opened a question that had just gotten a new answer. The answer scores were as follows:
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The protect link was present on the question. ...
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When JavaScript is disabled, sort orders other than "votes" are buggy
I normally browse Stack Exchange with JavaScript disabled, and reading, searching, etc. mostly work just fine in that context. However, sort orders other than "votes" are broken, for users ...
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Toast notifications are not being shown; a TypeError in `StackExchange.helpers.showToast` is thrown instead
Some toast notifications (i.e. those banners as shown in this screenshot) are not being shown; an error is visible in the console instead.
This bug applies to Meta Stack Overflow and Meta Stack ...
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In review queues, when clicking “links” with `href="#"`, the popstate event is dispatched without a state, throwing a TypeError
While trying to reproduce another bug, I found this error in the browser console while in the review queues:
Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "reviewTaskId", t.state is null
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Stack Exchange changes broke UI on multiple legacy browsers - Again
The previously reported and resolved issues of broken UI behaviour on legacy browsers (Latest Stack Exchange changes broke UI on Firefox Android), specifically, Firefox 68.11.0 (the last one before ...
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The PGN Viewer (replayer) stopped working on Chess Stack Exchange
On Chess Stack Exchange, there is a jQuery plugin which is integrated to display diagrams like this:
Today (1 February 2022), at around the time when this chess question was first posted, the PGN ...
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JS broken on older web browsers due to undefined 'globalThis'
It seems a recent change in StackExchange has rendered it no longer working correctly on my browser (Firefox 60.7esr). The error message is:
ReferenceError: globalThis is not defined
As a result, ...
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Core functionalities broken by a site update [closed]
A change near CE 2021-12-17 22:00 UTC has caused the core JavaScript based functionalities (comments loading, posting, etc.) cease to work on Chrome 77: rendering the site pretty much unusable on this ...
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Essential Stack Exchange user scripts and the dependencies they utilize
As part of our discovery for providing a JavaScript API for user scripts, we want to know what user scripts you're currently using. This can be used to report user scripts that you use and the global ...
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Providing a JavaScript API for userscripts
Over the years, a number of community members have developed unofficial browser userscripts to add or supplement functionality on our platform. While we do have an official API, these scripts ...
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Script error: Missing polyfill for replaceAll
This is a bug report for Stack Exchange frontend code (sstatic.net); don't close it as off-topic!
Script error: Missing polyfill for replaceAll
On older browsers, the site is broken. I can't click on ...
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JavaScript no longer works all of a sudden [duplicate]
Since today it seems like almost all buttons on the site have href="#". When I click on them, the page just jumps up, but nothing else.
For example:
the 'more hot questions' link
the ...
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Latest Stack Exchange changes broke UI on Firefox Android [duplicate]
Update 2021-12-15 as noted here, so happy this is working again!!!! FF 68.11.0.
I will say that BWC can be interpreted liberally. If it was not possible to reinstate the same functionality, say for ...
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Was support for the SeaMonkey browser just removed?
For years I've been browsing the site using the SeaMonkey Gecko-engine-based browser. It has the following user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 ...
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We're Migrating our JavaScript
TL;DR: We’re making a substantial repayment on our JavaScript technical debt. Apologies in advance for any bugs as we work through it!
An administrative note: Rather than posting bug reports as ...
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Review queues not working because of JavaScript error
For some users, reviewing is not possible at the moment; the queues show up blank. Both active queues and completed review items are not visible, probably because of a JavaScript error:
I'm using the ...
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Automatically retry loading external JavaScript from another domain [duplicate]
Every time I'm opening any Stack Exchange sites in a new web session (I'm doing it every day or sometimes multiple times per day), it shows me a banner " requires external JavaScript from another ...
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When blocking 'ajax.googleapis.com' on the sites, JavaScript "retry using another source" link should not redirect to the home page
Blocking ajax.googleapis.com results in a red bar that says:
[This site] requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source.
Once that ...
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The "Add A Comment" Button sometimes Freezes
Whenever I see a red banner stating:
Stack Overflow requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source.
The "Add a comment" (...
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Can't insert links or images: "Permission denied to access property "apply"" [closed]
For a few days now, I've been unable to insert images or links using the formatting toolbar above the post input textbox. When I press one of these two buttons, I get:
Error: Permission denied to ...
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When VTCing as dupe, if the question you're on gets edited before you VTC, the whole question goes blank
To reproduce:
Open up the VTC as duplicate interface
Click on an original question (this can also be done after the edit notice appears in the next step)
Wait for the question to be edited, so that "...
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Past audits on deleted posts fail to render due to JS error
I recently stumbled onto an old post which mentioned the following failed audit on this question (deleted):
https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/19920226
This is what's rendered:
(The ...
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What is the 'i1l' hidden form element for in Stack Overflow/Exchange/Super User?
I have noticed that a mysterious hidden form element called "i1l" is magically added (with JavaScript, no doubt) to the middle of the form when submitting a new question.
Its value appears to be a ...
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Scrolling on Stack Overflow is slow if a question has lots of answers
Chrome Version: Google Chrome 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS: Ubuntu
Try opening one of these pages:
How do I create a URL shortener?
How to use a decimal range() step value?
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Stack Exchange JavaScript is taking much longer to load than usual
After the recent SE network outage, I noticed that the JavaScript that powers things like the vote buttons, the dropdowns, and the "add comment" button takes much longer to load than it did in the ...
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Was access to unminified JS code via cdn-dev.sstatic.net deliberately removed?
It used to be possible to access the unminified versions of (most) Stack Exchange JS files via cdn-dev.sstatic.net (as opposed to the usual cdn.sstatic.net host that serves the minified versions). It ...
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Don't send request to the server if content hasn't changed
For example, when you press "Save edits" on comment, the request will be send to the server, even though the content of the comment wasn't changed.
You can check the content before sending to reduce ...
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Eeeek! Can't start a bounty on any question
Trying to start a bounty, on any question, results in this:
Please fix, in the dev tools I noticed a request to non existent URL.
This happens in all SE sites as far as I could see.
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Trying to close the "join this site" box at the top of a page throws a JavaScript error instead of closing the box
I was trying to close this box at the top of https://music.stackexchange.com:
But every time I hit the X to close, it just throws a JavaScript error instead of closing the box:
It's happening in ...
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Arrow keys stop scrolling after editing a post
I tend to use the keyboard extensively, including using the arrow keys and PgUp and PgDn keys to scroll through pages on the site. I recently got a new computer and am experiencing a minor, but ...
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Stack Exchange sites fail to load CSS and several JavaScript resources with AdBlock enabled [closed]
With the AdBlock add-on, this is what Stack Exchange sites look like:
And there are lot of errors in the console, like:
Uncaught ReferenceError: StackExchange is not defined
at 51978760?noredirect=...
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What code is getting retrieved from scorecardresearch.com and why? What data is collected? [duplicate]
When loading SE sites in the browser is slow, I see scorecardresearch.com flashing by in the browser status bar.
The page source shows that scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js is retrieved.
What data is ...
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Sudden WRONG perception of [name-the-site] about JavaScript being enabled [duplicate]
I don't know what's going on... I haven't (intentionally) upgraded anything, but just now I've been getting this banner over my connections here (Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange - probably ...
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JavaScript resources on the Stack Overflow site [duplicate]
On my machine (Fedora 25, Firefox 56.0) I got the error shown below. Suggestions?
I can't log in through Google because of this.
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JavaScript error on Stack Overflow page causing it to not work properly on Chrome
My Stack Overflow account is not showing any option in the description box from today:
And the reputation notification icon and message notification are not working. It's not showing anything. The ...
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Is there a way to programmatically open a topbar dropdown?
Is there a way to programmatically open a network item dropdown (site switcher, inbox, achievements) in the top bar (non-SO style only)?
I found a way to hide them via StackExchange.topbar.hideAll(), ...
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JavaScript syntax highlighter does not highlight template literals correctly
The lang-js highlighter does not appear to recognize backticked strings properly:
let s = `a a a 'a a a' "a a a" a a ${true}`; // not quite
let t = `a a a 'a a a ${true}'`; // a little ...
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What is the purpose of the "this page" link in the teststackoverflow
When reading this post, I came to know about teststackoverflow.
In this page, there is a link named as this page, when clicking on that it didn't respond any. Inspect on the element the code was ...
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Stack Overflow code snippet tool bug: `console.log` incorrectly reports missing array slot as undefined
The Stack Overflow code snippet tool produces an ambiguous and, depending on your definitions, incorrect output when using the JavaScript console.log command with an array that has missing slots, i.e. ...
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Is there a currently known JS bug preventing voting and other actions? [closed]
Starting this morning, I've been unable to vote or view more comments, or do most other actions. I've seen the same issue in multiple SE sites (Philosophy, Musicfans) and multiple browsers (FF, ...
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JS on timeline page is broken
I was looking at this timeline for very boring, uninteresting reasons. The JS (and, consequently, responsive elements) on that page is broken.
Console:
VM3535:6 Uncaught ReferenceError: Invalid left-...
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JS errors on SE business site
Going to stackoverflow business page I see the following javascript errors in the console:
oct.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null
B2B-SO-Global.min.js:1 Uncaught ...
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Exploiting Stack Exchange with the browser console
I viewed the source of a page on Stack Exchange and I discovered that all the up-vote buttons share the same CSS class and so do all the down-vote buttons.
That got me thinking: what if user(s) ...
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Where is the StackExchange JavaScript object documented?
I learnt of the StackExchange JavaScript object recently via Tim Stone's answer. Is this is the same object documented in the API documentation? That doesn't mention the using() function from Tim ...
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