On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 4:52:46 PM UTC-5, Sampson Crowley wrote: > > there are a massive number of possible reasons. you really should do some > research on css display types, as I'm assuming `right` is supposed to be a > element with "float: right" but "span" tags don't respond to floats unless > they have been set as block-level elements > > On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 7:07:32 PM UTC-7, fugee ohu wrote: >> >> $('#message_holder').append('<div class="container"><span class="right">' >> + data.content + '</span><br></div>') >> >> The string gets appended to the message_holder div like so: >> >> <div class="container"><span class="right">9</span><br></div> >> >> but the styling defined in .right doesn't get applied What to do? >> >>
view: <h3>Conversation with <%= @conversation_with.name %></h3> <%= content_tag :div, id: "message_holder", data: {conversation_with_id: @conversation_with.id} do %> <% @messages.each do |m| %> <% if m.sender==@conversation_with.id %> <div class="container-left"><%= m.content %></div> <% else %> <div class="container-right"><%= m.content %></div> <% end %> <% end %> <% end %> js: received(data) { if (data.sender==$('#message_holder').data-conversation_with_id) { $('#message_holder').append('<div class="container-left">' + data.content + '</div>'); } else { $('#message_holder').append('<div class="container-right">' + data.content + 'converation_with_id:' + '</div>'); } } }); -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/2ab75cf8-3ebd-4aa9-9450-83d37d5c27fa%40googlegroups.com.