Re: render :action => bla, :anchor => ''bla''

MichaelLatta
2007-06-06T20:14:09Z

My suggestion would be to use ajax to post the errors into an
initially empty DIV.  The easiest way to do this is to use an RJS
template for the response to the form.  Ajax on Rails has a good
treatment of this.

Michael



On Jun 6, 12:54 pm, Mischa Berger
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help me with this.
>
> I have a pretty long form (which involves scrolling). After posting the
> form, some data gets validated and if there are errors the form is
> rendered again and the errors are shown.
>
> The problem is: when the form gets rendered the scroll bar is always at
> the top, instead of at the part of the form where the error happened. I
> tried using redirect_to :anchor => ''bla'', but when I
use that the values
> the user entered are gone.
>
> What I want to do is render :action => bla, :anchor =>
''bla'', but
> obviously this doesn''t work. I can''t see how to do this.
Does anyone
> have an idea???
>
> Thanks,
> Mischa.
>
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