I can't bring myself to tell you what's wrong (hint: it's not
prototype), but try some simple debugging, like putting an
alert('here') before/after the Ajax.Updater call, to make sure your
*loop* is actually working as you expect it to.

On May 19, 11:53 am, adrianc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I apologize if my question duplicates something asked before. I'm new
> to JS programming and a search of this group didn't provide an answer.
>
> I'm trying to interface an existing application framework to
> Prototype. I have a small set of JS functions the framework calls to
> use the Prototype library.
>
> One of the functions creates multiple instances of Ajax.Updater when a
> form is submitted. Only the first Ajax.Updater works, the rest don't
> do anything. Here is the code:
>
> /** Update multiple areas (HTML container elements).
>   * @param areaCsvString The area CSV string. The CSV string is a flat
> array in the
>   * form of: areaId, target, target parameters [, areaId, target,
> target parameters...].
> */
> function ajaxUpdateAreas(areaCsvString) {
>     var areaArray = areaCsvString.split(",");
>     var numAreas = parseInt(areaArray.length / 3);
>     for (var i = 0; i < numAreas; i = i + 3) {
>         new Ajax.Updater(areaArray[i], areaArray[i + 1], {parameters:
> areaArray[i + 2]});
>     }
>
> }
>
> I thought maybe the Ajax.Updater instances were erasing each other, so
> I put them in array elements - but that didn't fix the problem.
>
> I have confirmed the string argument passed to the function is
> correct. I have confirmed each Ajax.Updater instance works
> individually.
>
> Any ideas?
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