On Mar 17, 4:39 pm, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is it possible to have a form submit normally if button X is pushed
> > and do an AJAX call if button Y is pushed?
>
> > My use case:
>
> > I'm letting users do some customizations and I want a preview button
> > and a save button. Hitting preview submits the current form values
> > as an AJAX call and the returned javascript generates a preview. When
> > they are happy with the results they hit save which should just submit
> > the form normally.
>
> > I guess another option would be to have a separate form for the AJAX
> > preview function that copies all the values from the main form.
>
> > Any pointers?
>
> Use jQuery's .post and .serialize methods to grab the data and submit it via
> ajax... then do whatever you want with it on the backend...
Sweet. Thanks for the serialize tip!
simple preview link calls preview()
<a href="#" onclick="preview()">Preview</a>
preview posts the form data
<%= javascript_tag do %>
function preview() {
$.post("/sites/<%[email protected]%>/preview", $('#add-site').serialize());
return false;
}
<% end %>
and I'm all set.
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