# AJAX: getting a label to act like its field **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 9, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-getting-a-label-to-act-like-its-field/171808 "2009-07-09T14:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jhaagmans)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-getting-a-label-to-act-like-its-field/171808/1 "2009-07-09T14:58:28Z")
Hi, I have a check\_box and on activating it, I want an extra field to show up. I thought I’d do this by calling a remote\_function called “toggle” in :onchange. In toggle.rjs, I’d do something like page.toggle and have the visibility toggled. I’m not sure whether it works: I haven’t tried it yet. What I did try was setting up a form with a hidden field (by default the check\_box isn’t ticked, so the field should be hidden), but the field label is still there. Is there a way to do this so I can toggle both the field and the label? Any other suggestions to do this (without page.toggle maybe?) are very welcome as well. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jhaagmans)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-getting-a-label-to-act-like-its-field/171808/2 "2009-07-09T15:58:15Z")
On Jul 9, 2:56 pm, jhaagmans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > hidden), but the field label is still there. Is there a way to do this > so I can toggle both the field and the label? > > Any other suggestions to do this (without page.toggle maybe?) are very > welcome as well. Call page.toggle twice - once on the label, once on the field ? Fred ---
**Author:** ![jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jhaagmans)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-getting-a-label-to-act-like-its-field/171808/3 "2009-07-09T16:08:48Z")
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Frederick Cheung[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > (by default the check\_box isn’t ticked, so the field should be > > hidden), but the field label is still there. Is there a way to do this > > so I can toggle both the field and the label? > > > > Any other suggestions to do this (without page.toggle maybe?) are very > > welcome as well. > > Call page.toggle twice - once on the label, once on the field ? Or put both the label and the field in an enclosing element (e.g. a span or a div) and toggle visibility on that. – Rick DeNatale Blog: [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale](http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale) WWR: [http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale) LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale](http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale) ---
**Author:** ![jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jhaagmans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jhaagmans)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-getting-a-label-to-act-like-its-field/171808/4 "2009-07-09T16:36:18Z")
Thank you both, I had specified an id for the label and called page.toggle on it as Frederick suggested, but I suspected a label to be able to do more than that. Apparently not. This will do the trick. Is there a way to toggle an object directly from :onchange, by the way?