You dont need an Ajax call for this. RJS is enough.
in helper

  def add_text_link(name)
    link_to_function name do |page|
        page[:text_area] = "This is new line"
    end
  end

in view

<%= add_text_link "Insert text into text area using JS" %>

On Mar 12, 7:18 pm, Sudhi Kulkarni <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a text area with id:"text_area" and in a link_to_remote tag I
> want to add content into the text area
>
> I tried (Syntax was correct though not the exact one as below)
>
> link_to_remote (update: "text_area",
>                url : { action => "update_text"},
>                position: bottom
>                )
>
> The update_text action in the controller had
>
> render :text => "This is new line"
>
> THis does not work for text area, any help in the aspect would be good.
> If I have a div instead of text area it works but not for the text_area
> only.
>
> Thanks,
> Sudhindra
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