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Hello, Is it possible to fill the textarea content when using the text_area function ? Why there is 2 , + or - similar class : FormHelper and FormTagHelper ?

Hi I''d like to know how to add default text text area using the function text_area. I ''ve tried using value = "....." to do this but with no luck. Could some one please answer my simple question? Thanks. Dan. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m having a problem getting the text area the size I want it to be. In my view at the top I have this init calls <script type="text/javascript" > tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: ''advanced'', theme_advanced_toolbar_location: ''top'' }); </script> Then in my form: <%= text_area

I''m playing around with Markaby and I decided to write a little blog app. I''m running into issues with forms however. If I use form_for the output of the form gets swallowed. For example: form_for :article, @article do |f| f.text_field :title f.check_box :published f.text_area :description f.text_field :pub_date f.text_area :content end gets rendered as an empty form

I''m trying to use the text_area() method and would like to populate the text block with initial text. According to this: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3752 there was a fix put in place, but I''m ont sure how to integrate this. How do I get the :value parameter to show up within the textbloc instead of the html attributes? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi! I have a "text_area" that looks like this... <%= text_area ''business'', ''otherDigitalDesc'', "cols" => 25, "rows" => 4, "value" => "Enter Description if Yes..." %> Right now, if I submit it, it adds "Enter Description if Yes" into the database. It would be nice to not have it enter

Hello, What''s the best way to handle formating of a text_area? I have a text_area in my rails app where people can leave comments and I''d like to automatically convert the line breaks into <br /> tags, or just simply wrap a whole paragraph in <p></p> tags. I''m currently doing the following in my comments controller to insert line breaks when the user

Hi all, Since I am new to ruby on rails. I''m stuck in some minor issue. I am using form_for in my view. In that I am using a text text. So, My question is, how to add a default value to the text_area along with the row and col values. Please help me out ASAP. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

Hi @ all I would like to enter a text with a text_area into the database. It runs excellent. But when I want to show the entered text in the show view, all newlines (paragraphs) are deleted and the text is only one block. How can I save the returns (newlines) too? Thanks for helping!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

Anyone know why my text_area field is being prefilled with "empty_clob()" instead of simply being empty like I would expect? I''m using Oracle 10g so I suspect it''s coming from the oci8 driver somehow? Here''s the code: <% form_for :user do |f| -%> <%= f.text_area :notes, :rows => 2, :cols => 32 %> <% end -%> It should be just an empty

Hi, If I have @answers in my Controller, which is an array of Answer model objects which don''t exist in the DB yet... How do I bind a text_area helper in the View to each Answer? (I''m pre-filling some of the Answers with other data people need to verify before submitting and will insert on POST.) I''ve been able to get the textareas to render but not with the

question one: is there any select box tag for form_for? now,perhaps i just can use the select or select_tag? question tow: i have a A model,it has one B such as: class A< ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :B when i use the form_for tag,how can i output the variable name?like this: <%form_for :a,@a,:url=>{:controller=>"a",:action=>"save"} do |f|%>

Hi, I am trying to colour a text_area input field, including the scrollbar (2-dimensional field). I was able to change the colour of a button associated with a ''submit_tag'' by adding a :class and defining properties in my CSS file. Is something similar required? Thanks, Lee. ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The

Do you know how to render a rich text input area (with HTML formatting buttons (bold, italics, etc., available?) In RoR I''m hoping this is very easy to pull off?!? <%= text_area ''blogentry'', ''entry'' %></p> TO <%= rich_text_area ''blogentry'', ''entry'' %></p> ??? Haven''t found

Hey, I have existing threads with two fields: title and text. When a user clicks "edit", I say, in the new thread form: <% form.text_area :text, :value => params[:text] %> params[:text] = the text in the thread which the user wants to edit. It works fine most of the time, but if I made a new thread and had linebreaks, clicking edit fails. New form: text: sdfjksdfj sdfjsdf

Hi, I''m trying to make it so that an object can be easily printed into the html format I want. I''ve been focusing on using a case/when control structure, so let me start by showing you some code... I was trying to use this following code as a helper method, def print_question(question) @question = question case @question.question_type.code when

Hi, I''ve created a custom form builder and overridden text_area so that all fields are readonly. There are a few instances that I would want an editable text_area, so I have tried to create an editable_text_area method. I have tried passing text_area(method, options.merge(:readonly=>false)) to the method, but it doesn''t work: the area is still not editable. Any

I copied the scaffolding edit and update and made it like this, Note: awnser is edit. Admin_contoller.rb def awnser @question = Question.find(params[:id]) end def update @question = Question.find(params[:id]) if @question.update_attributes(params[:question]) flash[:notice] = ''Question was successfully updated.'' redirect_to :action => ''list''

...is smaller than a text_field :size=>20 on Internet Explorer. They are the same on Firefox and Safari. makes my login box look silly. the same can be seen on the login screen for this forum. the password box is a little shorter on IE6. more annoying however is I have a view with two large text_areas sided-by-side and a text_field above them both spanning the full width of both text_areas. If I size everything to look nice on Safari and Firefox, then on IE it looks as though the text_field is too small, only making it about 2/3rds of the way across. Its not a major problem, but saying tha...

Hi, I''ve looked on api.rubyonrails.org but I''ve not found how to add to a date_select(object, method, options = {}) a class option to set the class of all the select tags. I''ve tried using "class" => "myclass" in thoose ways: <%= date_select("costo", "data", "class" => "testo" ) %> <%=