On Oct 28, 5:49 am, Luca R. [email protected]
wrote:
I need to target the id with javascript, so I need to abstract it too. I
would really like to choose the id by myself… I don’t need
“entry_entry_date_3i”. I need “year”, “month” and “day” (or something
similar, not tied to the model), so I can use the js in all my projects.
Is there someone that can tell me how to force it?
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The problem with changing the id, or even adding a class or something
is that the date_select helper generates multiple select elements
(e.g. year, month, day). Have you considered writing some javascript
that can create the appropriate id? The id is created as a
concatenation of the model, the field, and the subtype of date/times,
and the i character, where subtype values are 1 = year, 2 = month, 3 =
day, and so on for others. If you only cared about having the right
number of days for a given month (which is deterministic, but don’t
forget about leap years!), you would only need to know the value of
model and field, but that’s not really “generic”.
So a bigger question is, do you really want the default rails date
selectors??? If you really, really do, then you might lobby the
author of this patch
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/9015/date_helper.rb
to create a patch – it seems to address exactly what you are looking
for (see line 66 of the code compared to the commented out line before
it). In short, the date_select fields don’t appear to work like
others … yet.
Have you considered a more user-friendly approach, like using one of
several calendar helper plugins, such as
http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/
or http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Calendar+Helper+Plugin? In
addition to ensuring a valid date, they give the user a much nicer
interface, in my opinion.
Tom