Rails - May 2006 - Can you apply effects to elements create in same RJS file?

I am trying to create a new element in a list and highlight it.
I am doing the following in my rjs file:

page.insert_html  :after, ''bananalist_header'', :partial =>
''banana''
page.visual_effect :highlight, "banana#{banana.id}", :duration => 1

The first line creates a new element with the id= ''banana3''
say...
The second line then tries to highlight the new element.

This script fails as the second element doesn''t exist before the script
starts running. Is there some way to make this work? If I change the 
second line to reference an existing element ''banana1'' say,
then it
highlights it fine.

Any suggestions?

Cheers
Nigel


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It works for me, I do that quite often. You''re probably not
highlighting the right id, or maybe you''ve got the same id in your
document twice.

-Jonathan.

On 5/8/06, Nigel Thorne <rubyforum@nigelthorne.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to create a new element in a list and highlight it.
> I am doing the following in my rjs file:
>
> page.insert_html  :after, ''bananalist_header'', :partial
=> ''banana''
> page.visual_effect :highlight, "banana#{banana.id}", :duration
=> 1
>
> The first line creates a new element with the id=
''banana3'' say...
> The second line then tries to highlight the new element.
>
> This script fails as the second element doesn''t exist before the
script
> starts running. Is there some way to make this work? If I change the
> second line to reference an existing element ''banana1''
say, then it
> highlights it fine.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
> Nigel
>
>
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Nigel Thorne wrote:
> I am trying to create a new element in a list and highlight it.
> I am doing the following in my rjs file:
> 
> page.insert_html  :after, ''bananalist_header'', :partial
=> ''banana''
> page.visual_effect :highlight, "banana#{banana.id}", :duration
=> 1
Could it be that it''s supposed to be #{@banana.id} ?   (I
don''t know,
just guessing).

Alan

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On Monday, May 08, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Nigel Thorne
wrote:
>I am trying to create a new element in a list and highlight it.
>I am doing the following in my rjs file:
>
>page.insert_html  :after, ''bananalist_header'', :partial
=> ''banana''
>page.visual_effect :highlight, "banana#{banana.id}", :duration
=> 1
>
>The first line creates a new element with the id=
''banana3'' say...
>The second line then tries to highlight the new element.
>
>This script fails as the second element doesn''t exist before the
script
>starts running. Is there some way to make this work? If I change the
>second line to reference an existing element ''banana1''
say, then it
>highlights it fine.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Cheers
>Nigel
>
>
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All the lines in the RJS file fire simultaneously.

If you wrap the second line in a delay(0.1), it should work fine and  
really not be noticable.

_Kevin

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