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Hi guys, I have been working on a form that would use javascript to validate the data before submitting it, and from my view.rhtml I have a statement like this: However such a statement generates a HTML tag that looks like this: <form action="/users/Login?onSubmit=validate%28%29" method="post"> Seems like Rails thinks it is a parameter instead of an option, so

Hello, i have the application set up on my radrails. I was looking at the view generated by scaffold and i see a bunch of names, after looking up internet i found that they are helpers and generate the HTML for us. Now, i wanted to look at the helper code for start_form_tag, so that based on that i could write some of my own helpers in my helper classes... but i could not find the code

I can''t create a form with method "get". The rhtml code: <%= form_tag :controller => ''teritory'', :action => ''add'', :method => ''get'' %> The generated html code: <form action="/teritory/add?method=get" method="post"> What i''m doing wrong? -- They say money can''t

when the user click on "Search" I would like it to point to http://curentpage/?filter=searchtext (the filtering code is already written) it would look like this: <%= start_form_tag(url_for_options = {<something>}) %> <%=text_field (<my_filter>) %> <%= submit_tag(value = "Search")%> any idea how to do this? thanx in advance

Hi All, In scriptaculous scripts, I don''t understand this syntaxe : $(element) --8<--------------------------------- Effect.Highlight = Class.create(); Object.extend(Object.extend(Effect.Highlight.prototype, Effect.Base.prototype), { initialize: function(element) { this.element = $(element); ... --8<--------------------------------- I had never seen this syntaxe, I

Hi, I''m trying to set up file_column to upload attachments for emails. My view has <td align="left"><%= file_column_field ''to_do'', ''attachment'' %></td> and the attachment_temp hidden field is generated. When I inspect tthe params on saving the form the attachment_temp param is always an empty string. Also, when I was

Thank you to everybody that has helped me since I signed up. I''m flying along thanks to you. I have a question about the FormTagHelper "start_form_tag": I''ve been trying to figure out how to get Rails to output a "name" attribute for my form so I can hook in a Javascript to focus on a field inside of it on load, but it doesn''t look like I can do

Hello, Is there a way to set the html element id for the form_tag and form_remote_tag on the server side? I want to have this resultant html... <form id=''something'' ... ... </form> Thank you, Brian Takita

I have set up a ferret search using the examples in the demo app. Is it possible to have the search terms included in the URL, so that, for example, users can bookmark a search results page ? Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Are there any tutorials or howtos on scriptaculous or Prototype? -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com - http://engrm.com/blogometer/index.html - http://engrm.com/blogometer/rss.2.0.xml

What''s the best way to select a form on a page with Mechanize if the form doesn''t have the "name" attribute? I''m already familiar with the page.form(''myformname'') syntax but this doesn''t? work with forms that have no names. -- Thank you, Shane Witbeck Digital Sanctum, inc. -----------------------------------------------------

Hi, I''ve been playing with sortable, the demos on script.aculo.us and reading the javascript. I hope I''m not just missing the documentation somewhere but I can''t find it. I want to do something like Sortable for the admin side of an open source ecommerce project I''m working on [1]. I''m relatively new to DHTML but understand the basic ideas. If someone

Hi, Is it possible to submit my form (or part of my form) with an ajax request? I had been using dojo to do this, but having just read up on the prototype library, I think I''d rather use prototype. The one thing I don''t see (maybe I''m just missing it) is the ability to submit my form (actually just parse through an element and include all inputs as request parameters)

I have been reading the documentation at: http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html One of the examples does this: var someNodeList = $(''lstEmployees'').getElementsByTagName(''option''); var nodes = $A(someNodeList); nodes.each(function(node){ alert(node.nodeName + '': '' + node.innerHTML); }); How can I access the array index as

Hello to all list members... Exchuse for my bad english, I don''t write english very well. I''m searching for a solution to hilight a div when his value change. The value in these div is take from Ajax.Updater . the code is: new Ajax.Updater(''acc'',''tools/head_info.php'',{asynchronous:true}); and have a settimeout to recall it every 5 seconds.

Can anyone point me to an example of how to use the Insertion.Before technique? I''ve just begun trying to use AJAX and worked through Curt''s "Ajax on Rails". The description in AWD of what this does is just what I need, there''s no example of how to use it, and I''m getting no joy using Google. Any help is tremendously appreciated. -------------- next

Hiall, I want to give the action of a form an additional parameters but can''t figure out how to do it. My code looks like this <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'', next_step => true %> <%= render :partial => ''user_form'' %> <%= render :partial => ''community_form'' %> <%= submit_tag

i am trying to get a start_form_tag working, but i am shooting blanks.. here''s what i am trying to do.. i have a controller called "forms.." with an action "new_entry".. it is called by: localhost/forms/new_entry this is just a quick form to test another action.. that action is: localhost/logger my question is, how do i construct start form tag in order to

How do I use... <%= link_to "All Facilities", :action => ''fac_log_all'' %> if I add :target => "_new" that is just a parameter and not a directive. I just want reports to print into a separate window. How do I do that? It''s not clear at all to me Craig

Hi! I''m new to ruby and rails and got problems with using basic methods like form_tag or link_to etc to create what i need, i.e. to specify css class or id or name of html elements. I have problem with understanding rails api (it''s just as an example): form_tag(url_for_options = {}, options = {}, *parameters_for_url) what parameters can i pass to form_tag? How to specify