Hello All, I have a form with a text-area and a submit button.The user can write one''s status in the text-area and click on submit button.After clicking on the submit button,I want the status to be displayed immediately on the page.What is the best way to do this in Rails?Does the label tag solve my problem here? or should I use a span tag? The piece of code is as follows *********************************************************************************************************************************** <div id="msg_div" style="padding-left:20px;padding-top: 1px;height: 38%;"> <div id="about_me_text" style="float:left;border- style: solid;border-color:red;width: 47%;"> <% form_for :about_me , :url=>{:controller=>''home'',:action=>''update_about_me''}, :html=>{:name=>''frmpostchannellist'',:style => ''margin:0px;''} do %> <div class="mainInput" style="padding-left:20px;"> <span>Please write a few comments about yourself </span> <div style="width:100%;"> <div style="width:auto;float:left;"> <textarea rows="4" cols="50" id"message" style="overflow:auto;width:96%;" name="message" maxlength ="<%= APP_CONSTANTS[''post_msg_length'']%>" onkeyup="checkPostFieldLength(message,''remaining'', <%APP_CONSTANTS[''post_msg_length'']%>);" onkeydown="checkPostFieldLength(message,''remaining'', <%APP_CONSTANTS[''post_msg_length'']%>);" onmouseout="checkPostFieldLength(message,''remaining'', <%APP_CONSTANTS[''post_msg_length'']%>);"></textarea> <br/> <br/> <span id="remaining" class="count"><%APP_CONSTANTS[''post_msg_length'']%></span> characters remaining <br/> <br/> <script type="text/javascript"> var message = new LiveValidation("message", { validMessage: "", wait: 500, onlyOnSubmit: true }); message.add(Validate.Presence, { failureMessage: "< %=t :error_messages_message_presence %>" }); message.add(Validate.Length, { maximum: <%APP_CONSTANTS[''post_msg_length'']%>, failureMessage: "< %=t :error_messages_message_length %>" }); </script> <%= submit_to_remote "create_btn"," ", :update => "display_my_status", :loading => "Element.setOpacity(''widget'',''0.4'');Element.show(''spinner_page'');", :loaded => "Element.setOpacity(''widget'',''1'');Element.hide(''spinner_page'');document.frmpostchannellist.message.value = '''';document.getElementById(''remaining'').innerHTML = 400;", :url => {:controller=>"home", :action => "update_about_me"}, :html => {:class => "searchButton feedBackSubmitBtn", :id => "submitButton" } %> </div> </div> </div> <% end %> </div> <div id="about_me_display" style="float:right;border-style: solid;border-color:brown;width: 50%;"> <span id ="display_my_status" style="height:auto;"> <%=h @my_status%> </span> </div> </div> *********************************************************************************************************************************** Also I want to know what id do I give in the update statement in the submit_to_remote tag? Thanks in advance Regards Chandrika -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.