Thanks for the advice - I will definitely give it a look.

Lukas

Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012 16:07:14 UTC+2 schrieb Rolf Langenhuijzen:
>
> For dirty code you can use the onsuccess handler of your ajax call not? I 
> mean, you click the row, you load ajax content which also has a 
> request.onSuccess which you can use to scan your updated DOM (it is 
> updated, else you won't see it in the browser as well!) and hook up the new 
> events to turn text into input.
>
> Though, I think you should look into Behavior/Delegator of mr Nutron: 
> https://github.com/anutron/behavior
> It kicks ass.
>
> You might need to change your whole setup though, but it's worth it in the 
> end and your future projects.
> Using this you can use data-* attributes to describe behavior for 
> elements, for example that "onclick turns an element into an input field" 
> (using some small class you write for this). You can also load in the ajax 
> content and as soon as it's added to the dom it will automatically apply 
> new filters (in this case the "turn text into input").
>
> Seriously, check out the github docs (pretty useful) and also: 
> http://www.clientcide.com/code-releases/clientcide-3-0-behavior-1-0-mootools-development-and-so-much-more/
> and also: http://dev.clientcide.com/ (also see demos link in the top 
> right corner).
>
>
> Rolf
>
>
> On Monday, May 7, 2012 3:08:00 AM UTC+2, Lukas Oberbichler wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to tell you about my problem as detailed as I am able to and show 
>> you the relating code at jsfiddle.
>>
>> I am programming in JSP with a mvc architecture.
>> I select a database, show the rows of the database in the view and now i 
>> want to make a click on one of the rows and get the corresponding contents 
>> of the second database per AJAX beneath the row i clicked.
>> This works without a problem.
>>
>> Now i want to make this corresponding content also clickable - turn the 
>> text inside the <td>'s into <input> fields to make them editable.
>>
>> The problem is, that I am not able to select this content anywhere. 
>> Of course I am not able to add a event at the beginning because the AJAX 
>> request was not send then and the class/id won't exist at this time.
>> I am but also not able to get the elements in the onSuccess method of the 
>> Request.HTML class and add a click event to them.
>>
>> I think the problem is, that the respond is never added to the dom tree.
>>
>> I searched the internet and this group, tried various ways, but neither 
>> of them actually solved my problem.
>>
>> *To sum it up:*
>>
>> I have two database tables:
>>
>>
>>    - Database 1
>>    - Database 2 - is linked through an index with Database 1
>>    
>>
>> At first Database 1 gets displayed - the user clicks on any of the rows 
>> of Database 1 - beneath the clicked row the associated Database 2 content 
>> turns up (AJAX request).
>> Now i want to click on any of the rows of the associated Database 2 
>> (which has a class).
>>
>> The servlet (controller) respond is normal html.
>>
>> In the jsfiddle example I have commented out the only way I was able to 
>> make it work because it is (in my eyes) a pretty bad way to nest all the 
>> events in the onSuccess method of the Request class.
>>
>> jsfiddle <http://jsfiddle.net/dXHnt/1/>
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>>

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