Note, I have added a comment to issue 286 on Google Code with the explanation below.
On Monday, June 13, 2011 7:00:39 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > On Monday, June 13, 2011 6:21:01 PM UTC-4, sebastian wrote: >> >> anyway I would suggest to use ajax=true until >> http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=286 is fixed >> > > I'm not sure issue 286 is really a problem. ajax_trap is for trapping > forms within components, not for trapping links. If you want to trap a link > within a component, you just have to know the div id of the component. When > ajax=True, the div id is stored in request.cid, so you can specify > cid=request.cid in the A() helper, as you did in your example. However, when > ajax=False, the div id is not stored in request.cid. In that case, you can > specify your own div id via the 'target' argument to LOAD(). So, you would > do: > {{=LOAD(f="testajax.load",target='testajax',ajax=False)}} > > In testajax.load > > {{=A('click me', _href=URL('testajax.load'),cid='testajax')}} > Alternatively, you can get the automatically generated component id from > request.env.http_web2py_component_element, so you could do: > {{=A('click me', > _href=URL('testajax.load'),cid=request.env.http_web2py_component_element)}} > In any case, perhaps web2py should assign the component id to request.cid > even when ajax=False. > Anthony >
