# FF params

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ff-params/145697>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 13, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ff-params/145697 "2008-08-13T01:10:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jturney)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ff-params/145697/1 "2008-08-13T01:10:43Z")

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View:

\<%= text\_field\_tag :search\_id, "", :id=\>"search\_id" %\>

\<%= link\_to\_remote “Search”, :url=\>{:controller=\>“search”, :action =\>  
“query”}, :with =\> "‘search\_id=’ + $(‘search\_id’).serialize() -%\>

Controller:  
render :update do |page|  
page.redirect\_to :action =\> “show”,  
:q1=\>params[:search\_id],  
:q2=\>params[:search\_title],  
:q3=\>params[:search\_author],  
:q4=\>params[:search\_tags],  
:q5=\>params[:search\_date\_from],  
:q6=\>params[:search\_date\_to]  
end

(IE7) works fine, but in (FF3.0)…the params are  
nil…params[:search\_id] for instance

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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**Author:** ![jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jturney)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ff-params/145697/2 "2008-08-13T09:06:01Z")

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On 13 Aug 2008, at 00:10, Justin To wrote:

> View:
> 
> \<%= text\_field\_tag :search\_id, "", :id=\>"search\_id" %\>
> 
> \<%= link\_to\_remote “Search”, :url=\>{:controller=\>“search”, :action =\>  
> “query”}, :with =\> "‘search\_id=’ + $(‘search\_id’).serialize() -%\>

That’s because that will generate a query string that looks like  
search\_id=search\_id=something  
because serialize returns key=value strings.  
just :with =\> "$(‘search\_id’).serialize()  
will do

Fred

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**Author:** ![jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jturney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jturney)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ff-params/145697/3 "2008-08-13T20:25:07Z")

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Thanks Fred, excellent help as usual!!