DOMination

The function selectLocalTimezone(), only six lines long and shown in Listing 15-2, forced me to bring in some additional techniques. This function sets the selected value of a selection list representing time zone choices to that of the current or specified time zone. This small piece of code uses jQuery to operate on the DOM.

Listing 15-2: A small method using jQuery to operate on the DOM. The timezone_select property is supposed to be a jQuery collection referencing a <select> tag.

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var selectLocalTimezone = function(tp_inst, date) {  if (tp_inst && tp_inst.timezone_select) {    var now = date || new Date();    tp_inst.timezone_select.val(-now.getTimezoneOffset());  }};

I had originally set up the Jasmine ...

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