I tried what you said and it still behaved differently in Firefox and IE.
But then I tried moving the form_for outside of the entire TABLE, at which
point it started working. What I wanted was to have a form for each line of
the table - maybe I would need nested tables or something. My ruby/rails
education goes on.....


Thanks

John

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Chris Flipse <cflipse@...> wrote:

>
>
> IE is a bit more ... forgiving of malformed (x)html
>
> What you're actually sending over the wire, before the browser gets to it,
> will look something like
>
> <tr><td>
> <form ....>
> </td>
> <td> form fields </td> etc
> <td>description <input type=submit></form></td>
> </tr>
>
> what to do: Move your <%= form_for %> tag to between the <tr> and the <td>,
> and the matching <% end %> to between the last </td> and </tr> tag in your
> loop. That should hopefully get you what you're looking for...
>
> <table>
> <tr><form><td></td>...<td></td></form></tr>
> </table>
>
> why?: tr, td and form are all "block" tags, and they need to be nested
> correctly -- opened and closed in the right order. Firefox's renderer will
> correct for this, closing the block when it sees that the containing
> element
> has been closed.
>
> - chris
>
> 2009/6/25 John Holland <jbholland@... <jbholland%40gmail.com>>
>
>
> > OK, I have been working on this some more and found something very
> strange:
> >
> > In IE it works and in Firefox it does not. It seems the code generated is
> > different in the two browsers, which I don't understand.
> >
> > I couldn't see how to get a parameter from my form into my controller via
> > Ajax.
> >
> > In Firefox the </form> tag is appearing before the rest of my form, but
> in
> > IE it is not.
> >
> > This code is really stupid, it's just a learning exercise - anyway this
> the
> > chunk causing the problem
> >
> > ================================================================
> > <table border="1">
> > <% @line_items.each do |line_item| %>
> > <tr><td>
> >
> >
> >
> > <% form_remote_tag :url => url_for( :controller => 'line_items',
> > :action => 'update_quantity_in_place' ,:id => line_item.id ) , :update
> > => "quan.#{line_item.id}" do %>
> >
> >
> > </td>
> >
> > <td><%=h line_item.id %></td>
> > <td id="quan.<%=h line_item.id %>"><%= line_item.quantity %></td>
> > <td><%= text_field_tag :quantity %></td>
> > <td><%=h line_item.description %> <%= submit_tag "update" %>
> > <% end %>
> > </td></tr>
> > <% end %>
> > </table>
> > ======================================================
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong here?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, John
Holland<jbholland@...<jbholland%40gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >> I'm trying to get something working using Rails and ajax. I'm using
> the
> > form_remote_tag to call a view/controller that does an ajax update. �,A
> The
> > thing I can't figure out is how I can pass into the ajax form a parameter
> > the user has put in a form field on the page? I need to get from the
> user's
> > input tag to the controller.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't the field information be in the params hash in the controller?
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> // anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of
> // http://blog.devcaffeine.com/
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