Rails - Mar 2006 - Problem with ajax and textareas on firefox but works on IE

Hi folks,

I''ve been trying to figure this one out for a few hours now and
can''t
seem to understand what I might be doing wrong here.  Basically, I have 
a textarea which has a little icon next to it which will fire off a 
reset of the original comment if pressed.  It works under IE so that 
when the user types some garbase in to the textarea, and clicks the 
icon, the contents of the textarea resets; however, under firefox, i can 
see the ajax call hitting the server (the console shows it), but the 
text area doesn''t refresh.

I have the following textarea in my _form.rhtml (and have the <%= 
javascript_include_tag "prototype" %> in the layout rhtml file.
    <td>
        <%= text_area ''reviewcomment'',
''safety'', ''cols'' => 45,
''rows'' =>
5 %>
    </td>
    <td>
        <%= 
link_to_remote(image_tag("/images/UI/buttons/open_review.gif"),:update
=> ''reviewcomment_safety'',:url => {:action =>
''resetComment'', :factor =>
''Safety'', :rating => @reviewrating.safety}) %>
    </td>

In my controller, the code looks like
  def resetComment
    @factor = params[:factor]
    @rating = params[:rating]
    @rt = Ratingtemplate.find(:first, :conditions=> ["factor = ? AND 
rating = ?", @factor, @rating])
    @comment = @rt.defaultcomment
    render(:layout => false)
  end

And finally, I have a resetComment.rhtml
<%= @comment %>


Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
Daniel

Daniel Teng wrote:
> 
> And finally, I have a resetComment.rhtml
> <%= @comment %>
> 
> 
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
> Daniel
Doesn''t resetComment.rhtml need to be a partial?  eg: 
_resetComment.rhtml

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I tried changing that to _resetComment.rhtml, but with no effect.  I 
also assumed that in the controller, I had to do the follow?

render :=>partial "resetComment"

In both cases, it did not seem to make a difference under firefox. 
Arghhhhh....

Lori Olson wrote:
> Daniel Teng wrote:
>   
>> And finally, I have a resetComment.rhtml
>> <%= @comment %>
>>
>>
>> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
>> Daniel
>>     
>
> Doesn''t resetComment.rhtml need to be a partial?  eg: 
> _resetComment.rhtml
>
>

Can you try <%=h @comment %> instead?
Firefox is more strict sometimes on returned innerHTML, better escape it
first.

Daniel Teng wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I''ve been trying to figure this one out for a few hours now and
can''t
> seem to understand what I might be doing wrong here.  Basically, I have
> a textarea which has a little icon next to it which will fire off a
> reset of the original comment if pressed.  It works under IE so that
> when the user types some garbase in to the textarea, and clicks the
> icon, the contents of the textarea resets; however, under firefox, i can
> see the ajax call hitting the server (the console shows it), but the
> text area doesn''t refresh.
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Thanks Tony,

I tried that and it seems to at least work the first time around 
now(didn''t work at all before).  I wonder if I need to rename the file 
to _resetComment.rhtml?  It''s being included in the _form.rhtml called 
by the edit action.

Daniel

Tony Jin wrote:
> Can you try <%=h @comment %> instead?
> Firefox is more strict sometimes on returned innerHTML, better escape it
> first.
>
> Daniel Teng wrote:
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I''ve been trying to figure this one out for a few hours now
and can''t
>> seem to understand what I might be doing wrong here.  Basically, I have
>> a textarea which has a little icon next to it which will fire off a
>> reset of the original comment if pressed.  It works under IE so that
>> when the user types some garbase in to the textarea, and clicks the
>> icon, the contents of the textarea resets; however, under firefox, i
can
>> see the ajax call hitting the server (the console shows it), but the
>> text area doesn''t refresh.
>>     
>
>