Rails - Dec 2005 - Ajax auto_complete_field

Hello all.

Can anyone tell me how can I update two form fields (at the same time)
using auto_complete_field?

Thanks for all your help.

Best regards,
H


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Hugo Magalhães <hlists@...> writes:
> Hello all.
> Can anyone tell me how can I update two form fields (at the same 
> time)
> using auto_complete_field?

See pages 403-404 in the Agile Web Development with Rails book--it tells you how
to do it. The basic idea is that instead of sending just HTML back to the client
browser to fill in one DOM container, you instead send back Javascript. That
Javascript runs on the client side, so has full access to the DOM for the web
page, so it can update anything on the page you want. In your case, you could
send back a mix of HTML to fill in the first field and Javascript that will
cause the second field to be filled in.

--Forrest