Form_for Values Are Not Visible

I’m using this form in an edit page to update a person. For some weird
reason, when I view this form in the browser… The text field’s value
is
set to the person’s firstname, but it does not display in the browser.

The form works perfectly on Windows (the values are visible in the
browser),
but not on Ubuntu Linux. I’m using the same environment setup; same
Ruby,
Rails, and gems versions…

<% form_for @person do |f| %>
First Name <%= text_field
:person,
:firstname, :class => “textbox”, :size => “30%” %>


<%= submit_tag “Update Person”, :class => “button button-right” %>
<% end %>


Joshua S. Martin

Hi Joshua,

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Joshua M.
[email protected]wrote:

:person, :firstname, :class => “textbox”, :size => “30%” %>


<%= submit_tag “Update Person”, :class => “button button-right” %>
<% end %>

Without having tested this code my guess is that you’re running into a
parser problem. Firefox for Linux is not exactly the same code as
Firefox
for Windows and the place they differ most is in the parser. You have
a
class. Move the :size element out of inline styling and into your css
and
I’d bet a nickle your problem goes away.

HTH,
Bill

On 14 May 2010 02:22, Joshua M. [email protected] wrote:

:firstname, :class => “textbox”, :size => “30%” %>


<%= submit_tag “Update Person”, :class => “button button-right” %>
<% end %>

If you are getting different display in different browsers then it is
quite likely you have invalid html. Copy the complete text of the
page (View, Page source or simiilar in browser) and paste into the w3c
html validator (google will find it). Alternatively install the great
html validator plugin for firefox which will check it for you as you
develop.

Colin

You might need to keep that nickel Bill (:

I’ve removed all the :size elements from the form and validated the page
XHTML strict using W3C’s validator.

Yet, the values are not displayed. The values are in the HTML, just not
being displayed in the text boxes and text area for some reason. On a
related note, I have a drop down and it’s value IS set to the object’s
attribute.

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:04 AM, clanlaw [email protected] wrote:

<% form_for @person do |f| %>
html validator (google will find it). Alternatively install the great
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.
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I feel quite stupid now… Apparently, I had some JQuery for a search
textbox
whose job involved incorrectly blanking out all input:text in the
page…
Didn’t realize it until I simplified the page as much as possible.

Definitely won’t make this mistake again (:

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Colin L. [email protected]
wrote:

I’m using this form in an edit page to update a person. For some weird
<% form_for @person do |f| %>
html validator (google will find it). Alternatively install the great
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That would do it.

Meanwhile, if you are using form_for, you should do this:
<%= f.text_field :first_name %>

The f knows it refers to the person record because you told it so with
form_for…

On 14 May 2010 14:08, Joshua M. [email protected] wrote:

You might need to keep that nickel Bill (:

I’ve removed all the :size elements from the form and validated the page
XHTML strict using W3C’s validator.

Yet, the values are not displayed. The values are in the HTML, just not
being displayed in the text boxes and text area for some reason. On a
related note, I have a drop down and it’s value IS set to the object’s
attribute.

Could you put the (complete) html somewhere so we can have a look?
Strip out everything you can first.

Colin