Thanks for the help Ryan, works great.
On Jan 18, 12:00 am, Ryan Waldron <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you're using link_to_remote to call an action which has an RJS template,
> you need to remove the "update => 'page_content'," argument in
> link_to_remote. If you specify :update, link_to_remote expects to get back
> some HTML with which to replace that element of your DOM.
>
> When you leave that off, link_to_remote looks for JavaScript (which is what
> RJS returns) to then execute on the client-side. That executed JavaScript
> then produces the HTML and decides where to put it.
>
> Check out this thread for a (probably) more lucid explanation:
>
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/95288
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM, shenry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm using RedCloth and am trying to update a div (id='page_content')
> > from an ajax link. The problem is that when the element is updated it
> > inserts the content twice and contains all kinds of ajax code, newline
> > and tab characters with the content. Here is the link:
>
> > link_to_remote "Exhibitions", update => 'page_content', :url =>
> > { :controller => 'pages', :action => 'ajax_link', :page_name =>
> > "exhibitions" }, :loading => "Element.show('ajax-loader')", :loaded =>
> > "Element.hide('ajax-loader')"
>
> > the ajax_link action is:
>
> > def ajax_link
> > �...@page = Page.find_by_page_name(params[:page_name])
> > respond_to do |format|
> > format.js { }
> > format.html { render :action => 'show' }
> > end
> > end
>
> > and the ajax_link.rjs is:
>
> > page.replace_html :page_content, :partial => 'page_content', :object
> > => @page
>
> > Although if I change the ajax_link action to the following the div is
> > updated correctly:
>
> > def ajax_link
> > �...@page = Page.find_by_page_name(params[:page_name])
> > respond_to do |format|
> > format.js { render :text => "#{RedCloth.new
> > (@page.page_content).to_html}" }
> > format.html { render :action => 'show' }
> > end
> > end
>
> > Thanks for any help,
>
> > Stu
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