2009/8/16 RVince <[email protected]>: > > 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. >
I may be wrong but I do not believe that a div is permitted between rows either. To test generate some simple a simple test html page and paste the source into the html validator at http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input Colin > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
