Rails - Jul 2006 - Feeling silly

I don''t know why, but I am drawing a complete blank on something that 
should be easy.  I''ve been searching, perhaps using wrong terms, and 
still not coming up with anything. Here''s what I''m trying to
do:

<div class="button"
             
onMouseOver=''this.className="button_hover"'';
              onMouseOut =''this.className="button"'';
              onClick    =''this.className="button_click";
                           open("/main/test");''>
              Clear Event
            </div>

Where the div is a homemade css button.  onClick, the button needs to 
make a change in css class and make an js/ajax call to a url (will be 
generated with rails, but /main/test is proof of concept).  I''m not at 
all sure how to handle this, and I know I should know, hehe.

I would appreciate any help getting my brain turned around the right way 
on this.

Thanks!

gander

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Gerald Anderson wrote:
> I don''t know why, but I am drawing a complete blank on something
that
> should be easy.  I''ve been searching, perhaps using wrong terms,
and
> still not coming up with anything. Here''s what I''m trying
to do:
> 
> <div class="button"
>              
onMouseOver=''this.className="button_hover"'';
>               onMouseOut
=''this.className="button"'';
>               onClick   
=''this.className="button_click";
>                            open("/main/test");''>
>               Clear Event
>             </div>
> 
> Where the div is a homemade css button.  onClick, the button needs to 
> make a change in css class and make an js/ajax call to a url (will be 
> generated with rails, but /main/test is proof of concept).  I''m
not at
> all sure how to handle this, and I know I should know, hehe.
> 
> I would appreciate any help getting my brain turned around the right way 
> on this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> gander
you want something like:

  <div class="button"
       onclick="this.className=''foo'';
         <%= remote_function :url => {:action =>
''foo''},
                             :loading =>
"$(''ajax_indicator'').show();"
%>">

That should fire off an ajax request when clicked.

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