Checkbox connundrum

Hi:

I have a bit of a checkbox connundrum I need some help with.

I have a page that displays a list of tasks. These tasks have a bunch
of information on

them. I want to do a fairly normal operation with a checkbox. the
checkbox indicates when

the task is complete. The checkbox needs to do the following things:

  1. call a method that will make various database updates
  2. change it’s own label from “Complete?” to “Completed”
  3. Change the text of the task from normal to strikethrough

It looks like I need to use form_remote_tag and make an AJAX call so all
of this can be

handled in real-time. But he example from Cody F.'s book don’t seem
to translate for

me. This is how far I’ve gotten:

FROM THE VIEW:
<%= form_remote_tag :url => { :action => ‘OTcomplete’ }, :html => {
:id =>

‘OTcomplete’ } %>
<%= check_box_tag (“OTcomplete”, nil, checked = false, options = {
}

) %>

Completed?

<%= end_form_tag %>

FROM THE RJS “OTcomplete”

page.insert_html :bottom, ‘OTcomplete’, :partial => ‘OTComplete’
page.visual_effect :highlight, ‘OTcomplete’

FROM THE PARTIAL “_OTComplete”

Complete

FROM THE MODEL

The model has some code in it to make a DB insert when the user clicks
the checkbox

Here’s what I didn’t do yet:

  1. implement the strikethrough of the text name
  2. figure out how to reverse this process if the user clicks a checkbox
    that has been

changed to “Complete”

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

Mike

Mike D. wrote:

I have a bit of a checkbox connundrum I
need some help with.

I can see a couple of things that are going to be problems. But I can’t
tell from your description exactly what problem you’re having right now.
What is your code doing / not doing that you need help with?

I have a page that displays a list of tasks. These
tasks have a bunch of information on them.

FROM THE VIEW:
<%= form_remote_tag :url => { :action => ‘OTcomplete’ },
: :html => {:id => ‘OTcomplete’ } %>
<%= check_box_tag (“OTcomplete”, nil, checked = false,
options = { } ) %>

Completed?

<%= end_form_tag %>

You’ve given both the form and the div within it the same id. That’s
bad.
Each DOM element needs to have a unique id. Ajax depends on it to find
the
element to update. If I understand what you’ve said, you’re generating
a
form element for each item. If that’s right, then the problem is
compounding .

First step is to take the rendered page source and validate it at
http://validator.w3.org/ . If the xhtml doesn’t validate without errors
(warnings are ok), then you’re going to have problems.

Best regards,
Bill