What is the best way of doing this? I have a series of links across the top of the page. I have a large empty <div> layer below those links (let''s call the layer ''X''). The sites header and footer surround X. What I would like to do, whenever the user clicks on a menu link, I would like that action to be displayed within the X div panel. The problem is with the link_to_remote call, I can specify the X div tag to be updated, but that means that the data being returned from the server will have to include the layout details along with the data. It''d be nice to be able to say if the user clicks the "list" link, go grab all of the list items, and display them within the div tag X with the list view applied. If the user clicked the "delete" tag, return any needed data, apply the delete view and display that within div tag X. This way at least the header and footer are never redrawn. I could do something like this with an inline frame but maybe there''s a better way.
> The problem is with the link_to_remote call, I can specify the X div tag > to be updated, but that means that the data being returned from the > server > will have to include the layout details along with the data.Just specify :layout => false for the methods that are supposed to be shown inside the DIV. This way they will be rendered inside your current layout using the link_to_remote call and won''t cause double layouts to appear. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Tom Wilcoxen
2005-Dec-01 13:42 UTC
Re: Re: Large DIV Area to Update; Seperate Data from View?
You may want to check out the new .rjs view templates: http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates Then you could return a partial for the list and insert it into the div X. The partial could contain whatever formatting for the list that you wanted. You''ll have to be on edge rails though. -Tom -- Tom Wilcoxen http://convergentarts.com _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails