The problem is still there in Version 2.0.3 (2012-08-31 00:31:48) stable
You can reproduce it with the following minimal application:
https://github.com/gonvaled/web2py-tests/tree/master/problem_A_URL
On Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:13:11 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote:
>
> I think the issue is not in the onclick but the href. When you set the
> callback but don't set an explicit href, the A() helper should set href to
> "#null", but for some reason, his code is appending #null to an actual URL.
> I can't reproduce that when I run the same code.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:03:29 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> The quotes are escaped when in between quotes. That is the correct thing
>> to do for security. It works fine or does it not?
>>
>> On Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:00:25 UTC-5, Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the following markup in an html viewfile:
>>>
>>> {{=DIV(A('click me',callback=URL('mycallback'),target="me"),_id="me")}}
>>> {{=URL('mycallback')}}
>>>
>>> Which is producing the following html:
>>>
>>> <div id="me"><a href="
>>> http://localhost:8000/web2py_jquery/default/index#null"; onclick="ajax(&#
>>> 39;/web2py_jquery/default/mycallback',[],'me');return false"
>>> >click me</a></div>
>>> /web2py_jquery/default/mycallback
>>>
>>> (web2py_jquery is just my test application)
>>>
>>> I do not understand why =URL('callback') is rendering differently
>>> depending on the context. Specially the "#null" makes me worry
>>> Is this expected?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
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