jquery-mobilecheckboxknockout.jsradio-buttonlabel-for

How to find the text in label-for of jQuery mobile Radio and Checkbox with knockout?


I'm using jQuery 1.9.1, jQM 1.3 & knockout 2.2.1.

My html is as follows:

<div data-role="page" id="coloursView">
    <div data-role="content">
        <fieldset data-role="controlgroup">
            <legend>Colour:</legend>
            <input type="radio" name="colours" data-bind="checked: colour" id="radio-1" value="1" />
            <label for="radio-1">Red</label>
            <input type="radio" name="colours" data-bind="checked: colour" id="radio-2" value="2" />
            <label for="radio-2">Blue</label>
            <input type="radio" name="colours" data-bind="checked: colour" id="radio-3" value="3" />
            <label for="radio-3">Green</label>
        </fieldset>
    </div><!--/content -->
</div><!--/page -->

My view model is also very simple:

function ColoursViewModel() {
  this.template = "coloursView";
  this.colour = ko.observable("1");
  this.label = ko.observable(); // custom binding
}

Now, i would like to get the description of the selected colour, not the value. It seems to me, that i need a custom binding, like this one:

ko.bindingHandlers.label = {
    update: function(element, valueAccessor) {
        var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
        $("radio", element).filter(function(el) { return $(el).text() === value; }).prop("checked", "checked");
    }
};

But i'm not able to get the text of the related label - the label-for text.

Someone could help? Thanks in advance


Solution

  • Sorry if i answer myself, but i think i got it. At least for radio inputs.

    Now, i have a custom binding handler at fieldset level, to keep the markup clean and more readable, as i can:

    <fieldset data-role="controlgroup" id="front-colours" data-bind="frontColourLabel: frontColour">
        <legend>Front Colour: <span data-bind="text: frontColourDescription"></span> (Value: <span data-bind="text: frontColour"></span>)</legend>
        <input type="radio" name="front-colours" data-bind="checked: frontColour" id="fc-radio-1" value="red" />
        <label for="fc-radio-1">Red</label>
        <input type="radio" name="front-colours" data-bind="checked: frontColour" id="fc-radio-2" value="blue" />
        <label for="fc-radio-2">Blue</label>
        <input type="radio" name="front-colours" data-bind="checked: frontColour" id="fc-radio-3" value="green" />
        <label for="fc-radio-3">Green</label>
    </fieldset>
    

    this is the binding handler i come up:

    ko.bindingHandlers.frontColourLabel = {
        update: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor, viewModel, bindingContext) {
            ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor()); 
            var id = $('input:radio[name='+element.id+']:checked').prop("id");
            var radioText = $('label[for=' + id + ']').text();
            viewModel.frontColourDescription(radioText);
        }
    };
    

    the only tricky part here, is that the id of the fieldset is equal to the name of the radio-group, as it's easy to filter out what radio-group i want to address.

    WORKING EXAMPLE: http://jsfiddle.net/h7Bmb/1/

    I try now to get the checkbox part to work. Someone can help?