Re: TypeError: html has no properties

Glen
Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:59:22 -0000

Thanks, William.

I actually just got done doing the latter and it is working now.  The
code is getting a bit sloppy, I really need to go through and clean it
up.

Thanks again for your help.

On Aug 16, 10:56 am, William Pratt
<bi...-YbheRAKfYF4eIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> The only other thing that immediately comes to mind is to validate your
> html after the last successful update to make sure it didn''t
break.
> Since JS depends on a "mostly" valid dom, that could be it. If
you are
> using Firefox, the web developer tool bar has the ability to validate
> local html and also the ability to view the "generated source"
which
> will show the source for the page after js has modified it.
>
> For rendering as a partial, you can either directly access @report in
> the partial, or decouple the partial by setting a local variable like this:
>
> render :update do |page|
>   page[:body].replace_html :partial => ''a_partial'',
:locals => {:report => @report}
> end
>
> This would set the local variable "report"  in the partial to the
value
> of @report.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Glen wrote:
> > It should still be there.  At this point in the application that div
> > has been updated at least twice but I don''t use replace
anywhere.
>
> > Is there a way to pass data forward so that I could test with
> > rendering a partial?  I would need to set the @report variable again
> > somehow for the partial.
>
> > On Aug 16, 10:35 am, William Pratt
<bi...-YbheRAKfYF4eIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> >> To clarify, look at you source html and make sure there is an
element on
> >> the page that has ''body'' as it''s id.
i.e.:
> >>
>
> >> William Pratt wrote:
>
> >>> Typically that means that there is not an element on the page
with that id.
>
> >>> Glen wrote:
>
> >>>> I''m trying to update a div after form submission,
for some reason it
> >>>> is dying on this line:
>
> >>>> render :update do |page|
> >>>>   page[:body].replace_html :url => body_report_show(:id
=>
> >>>> params[:report_id])
> >>>> end
>
> >>>> I get an alert window that says
>
> >>>> RJS error:
>
> >>>> TypeError: html has no properties
>
> >>>> Help??
>
> >> --
> >> Sincerely,
>
> >> William Pratt
>
> >>http://www.billpratt.net
> >> bi...-YbheRAKfYF4eIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> William Pratt
>
> http://www.billpratt.net
> bi...-YbheRAKfYF4eIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org