On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:33:28PM -0400, Colin Angevine wrote: > I took a look at the example on the Scriptaculous site and I'm still a > bit unclear. I'm already using the informal class, and it makes good > sense to use it again (with a display:none there) but I'm not sure how > I'll be able to retrieve that id number once the user selects it. Just > a bit more context around how you approached it (or maybe a peek at > the code you put together) would be wonderful.
You must use a callback (with updateElement option to Ajax.Autocompleter) and that callback does something like id = chosen_option.getElementsByTagName("span")[0].innerHTML; then you can use the id as you like. Previously discussed on the list: http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails-spinoffs/2006-July/004864.html Saludos, HoraPe --- Horacio J. Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs