Ahh I see, thank you very much for your help Frederick!
On Nov 9, 12:57 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Nov 8, 3:36 pm, Nick S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > function test()
> > {
> > document.getElementById("chatbox").value += "<%= Time.now %>" + "\n";
>
> > }
>
> > <textarea id="chatbox" rows="10" cols="80" class="chatbox"
> > readonly="true" onclick="test();">
> > </textarea>
>
> > Basically, clicking the textarea "chatbox" will add a line with the
> > current time, and unfortunately, every click on the textarea results
> > in the identical line being written, which is the time that the page
> > was loaded.
>
> That's completely normal - At the point that the template is rendered
> all of your <%= are evaluated - if you look at the source in the
> browser you won't see any of your ruby code (and even if you could,
> what's your browser supposed to do with ruby). If you need some ruby
> code evaluated you need to make a request to the server
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> > Is there any way I could get Time.now to update with every click?
>
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> > Nick.
>
>
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