On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 08:47 -0700, Ali wrote: > On Apr 2, 8:09 am, bill walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ali, > > > > Have you considered a lightbox-style approach? > > > > Best regards, > > Bill > > I had looked into that approach a little bit, but from what I've seen, > isn't that mostly for housing image popups? I need my popup to act > just like a ROR form -- create, update, etc. Can a lightbox approach > handle that, or is it more for display purposes?
I'm using Craig Ambrose's RedBox plugin. It's a Ruby implementation of Lightbox. (http:://blog.craigambrose.com/articles/2006/08/16/redbox-a-rails-compatible-lightbox) With Redbox, the 'lightbox' window can house anything; including forms. A couple of things that tripped me up a little: 1) The RedBox method is invoked via XHR, but it renders a straight .rhtml partial. 2) You need to make sure the partial has a containing <div> that's got height and width styled (CSS) to fit within the RedBox window. Otherwise you'll get a blank display where you expected content. I think the 'difficulty' related to non-image content is related to whether or not the dimensions of the 'bounding box' can be known or have to be calculated. Anyway, I've found RedBox to be a very useful tool. HTH, Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
