Rails - Jun 2006 - Can I refresh a remotely updated section once?

My object has_many Link objects.  So I''ve set up a form on my edit page
that uses form_remote to accept a text field and then dynamically create 
and add a new Link object and remain on the same page.  I have a div 
id="links" region that gets updated to show the current list of links.
This works fine.

But when I first load the page, if the object already had links, how do 
I signal the links section to draw itself, before the form is submitted 
for the first time?
If I just put some HTML code in that section I assume that it will be 
rendered every time and I''ll get redundant output.


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Duane Morin wrote:
> My object has_many Link objects.  So I''ve set up a form on my edit
page
> that uses form_remote to accept a text field and then dynamically create 
> and add a new Link object and remain on the same page.  I have a div 
> id="links" region that gets updated to show the current list of
links.
> This works fine.
> 
> But when I first load the page, if the object already had links, how do 
> I signal the links section to draw itself, before the form is submitted 
> for the first time?
> If I just put some HTML code in that section I assume that it will be 
> rendered every time and I''ll get redundant output.
A snippet of relevant code might help, because I don''t think
it''s clear
what you are asking.

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