Colin, THank you. However, in this case, the form doesn't contain the rows, but actually resides between them, in a separate div if that is at all possible. After examining this, I am convinced there is no way to feasibly do it aside from say, a link in the table that opens up a form in redbox/lightbox. And even that may not work.
On Aug 15, 3:35 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/14 RVince <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > I have a view that has a swath of innerHTML in it. This innerHTML > > resides in an HTML table, and it is updated every second by a > > javascript timer which, through anX MLHttpRequest, reads a file of > > JSON data which is written to the server by another application. > > > The upshot is, this table is live on the web page. Within this table, > > I will have a link which the user can click, which would then open > > that row from that live table, in a formview to be user-edited. > > > I plan on usinghttp://www.prototypejs.org/api/element/toggleto pop > > this open. The problem is, this would require a div for each row that > > would have the form. As you can see from my description, I am updating > > this row every second, and at times there can be two dozen or more > > rows -- which is too much data to push through. > > > I'm wondering if anyonw can offer me any good ideas on how to solve > > this dilemma. I need to keep the data, the html, for the table as > > light as possible, When the user click the rows link, I need to open > > the form up within the rows (the typical type of editing behavior you > > see in web apps). > > Not helping solve the problem at all but just to point out that a form > cannot wrap a row or group of cells in a table, it is not valid html. > The form must include the whole table or the form must lie entirely > within one cell. Do not be led astray by the fact that it appears to > work in some browsers, it will not work in all. It is a pain but that > is the way it is. > > Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
