The problem concerning the renderElement, might be due to the content
of your rendered element (the style as well).
try to tace the value rendered by "renderElement" maybe you will find
the solution.
PS : your thread is still there
For the style, be sure you apply it to the div you update
On Jun 14, 5:31 pm, Dustin Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Somehow, this question never made it to my previous post [http://
> groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/45442ab30ec579b/
> 6378626e3a27701e#6378626e3a27701e]. It's like the Google Group lost
> my post, so I apologize if this shows up twice.
>
> After a little bit of work and help from francky06l here in the Google
> Group, I am now appending data to a div that has data in it already.
> Let me show the basic code so everyone knows what's going on:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /** main template code **/
>
> <?php foreach ($tests as $test): ?>
> <?php echo $ajax->link("Add More Tests", "/tests/ajaxAddTest/
> {$id]}",
> array('update'=>'newData')); ?>
> <?php endforeach; ?>
>
> <div id="originalData">existing data here</div>
> <div id="newData"></div
>
> /** END main template code **/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /** example ajax_add_test.thtml view **/
> <?php
> $ajax->div('dataControl');
> $data = $this->renderElement('elem_add_test', array('form' =>
> $form));
> $js = "new Insertion.Bottom('data', $data)";
> echo $javascript->codeBlock($js, false);
> $ajax->divEnd('dataControl');
> ?>
> /** END ajax_add_test.thtml view**/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /** example elem_add_test.thtml **/
> <?php if (!empty($form)) { ?>
> <?php foreach ($form['Field'] as $field): ?>
> <?php echo $html->input('Form/field'. $field['id']); ?>
> <?php endforeach; ?>
> <?php } ?>
> /** END elem_add_test.thtml**/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ok, so what I'm doing is this: When the user clicks on the ajax link
> in the main template, the controller action (ajaxAddTest) does some
> work, sets the $form array, and renders ajax_add_test.thtml. As you
> can see in ajax_add_test, I'm don't want to overwrite the data in the
> newData div, I simply want to append new data into it, keeping the old
> data.
>
> So, I go and render an element (elem_add_test.thtml) passing in the
> $form. I then take the result of that element render and pass it into
> the javascript code block to append.
>
> There are two problems I'm having.
>
> #1) The data overwrites the newData div each time instead of appending
> to it. If I change the ajax_add_test view to the following code
> snippet (not using an element), the text NEW TEST DATA appends
> properly, never overwriting what was in the newData div.
>
> /** example ajax_add_test.thtml view **/
> <?php
> $ajax->div('dataControl');
> $js = "new Insertion.Bottom('data', 'NEW TEST DATA <br>')";
> echo $javascript->codeBlock($js, false);
> $ajax->divEnd('dataControl');
> ?>
> /** END ajax_add_test.thtml view**/
>
> Any suggestions or alternate ways to achieve this update process to a
> div?
>
> #2) The rendered elements populated into the newData div never seem to
> have any style. They lose all the styling applied elsewhere on the
> site. This a large stumbling block that I need to solve somehow.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Dustin WeberThe
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