I replied to you with an example.
I wrote............
Bill ....
You need to observe the form submit.
$('the-id-of-the-form').observe('submit',function(event) {
/// do the ajax that TJ said...
Event.stop(event); // will stop it doing its default action!
});
Alex Mcauley
http://www.thevacancymarket.com
Alex Mcauley
http://www.thevacancymarket.com
----- Original Message -----
From: bill
To: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: POSTing a form via AJAX
bill wrote:
T.J. Crowder wrote:
Hi,
'Tis indeed very easy. Say you have a form wrapped in a div:
<div id='formwrapper'><form>
....
</form></div>
You can post it like so and take the result (which is presumed to be
an HTML snippet in this case) and use that to update the container:
new Ajax.Updater('formwrapper', someurl, {
parameters: $('formwrapper').down('form').serialize(true),
onFailure: function(response) {
// ...show a failure message...
}
});
...
That seemed so easy when I read the post, but. . .
How do I trigger the submission ?
I tried onsubmit = {the code above} and it just submitted regularly and
replaced the whole page with the output, not just the div.
I tried putting the code above as a script after the form, but still in the
div and got the same result.
bill
Putting the code as a script did not work, I expect, because the script was
not served by Ajax.updater.
Using Firebug I determined that the script was stripped out, which raises the
next question.
I know that I need to set a parameter to updater so that it will not strip
scripts. I have read the section on
evalScripts and the need to set the function with coolFunc = function () {
...
}
The script that loads the form is invoked as:
new Ajax.Updater('showMessageDiv',url , {method: 'get',evalScripts: true}
); // get the requested message
where url is defined as: url = 'mail/getmessage.php?n=' + message_id;
but it does not upload the script so I suspect that I have the evalScripts in
the wrong place.
--
Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com
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