Help with link_to_remote or javascript generator

Rails
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Hi all,

I’m a relative noob to rails so I apologize in advance for asking such a
basic question.

I am trying to do multiple AJAX calls using the link_to_remote helper or
the
JavaScript generator update_page. I have googled and read the docs for
both, but can’t seem to figure out exactly what i need to do.

Say I have the following html:

Insert text

When I click on the “Insert text” link I want that div to drop away
(i.e.
effect.drop), call an action that manipulates the id paramater a little
bit
(let’s say it will concatenate “This is” to the text) and then puts it
into
the div contents to produce something link this:

This is link1

This is of course not exactly what I am trying to do, but if I can get a
little help with the process I think I can figure the rest out. And
I’ve
got the link dropping away working fine, but I don’t know how to do the
update at the same time.

Any help is appreciated.

Bryan

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Hi Bryan,

Bryan T. wrote:

I am trying to do multiple AJAX calls using the link_to_remote
helper or the JavaScript generator update_page. I have googled
and read the docs for both, but can’t seem to figure out exactly
what i need to do.

If you can spare ten bucks, I highly recommend Cody F.s PDF
book(let)
at:

Two or three hours with that and you’ll be amazed at what you’ll be
doing.
Worth several times its price, IMO.

Best regards,
Bill

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Hi Bryan,

Bryan T. wrote:

Thanks for the recommendation, the book is great and you’re right,
I was up and running (with some extra knowledge to boot) in no time.

Congrats!

One possibly obvious follow up question (addressed to anyone)
which I also cant find the answer to - I know you can use
:style => “font-size: 2em” or something of that nature to blanketly
format the link_to_remote links, but what about adding hover
effects like you would normally do using something like
a:hover {font-weight: bold}?

My personal preference for things like this is to look first to CSS.
The
starting point I use is http://www.w3schools.com Others will have
differing
opinions :wink:

Best regards,
Bill

4

Bill,

Thanks for the recommendation, the book is great and you’re right, I was
up
and running (with some extra knowledge to boot) in no time.

One possibly obvious follow up question (addressed to anyone) which I
also
cant find the answer to - I know you can use :style => “font-size: 2em”
or
something of that nature to blanketly format the link_to_remote links,
but
what about adding hover effects like you would normally do using
something
like a:hover {font-weight: bold}?

Bryan

5

Sorry, I should have explained a little more about what I was doing.
I know how to write the css for this if I was using a seperate
stylesheet, but my link_to_remote command creates a variable number of
links of the format id=“pos#{i}” so I need the css to be inline and
generated along with the links (at least the way I envision it). I
use wc3 schools regularly, love the site, but couldn’t find anything
about this specific issue. If I’m missing something relevant please
point me to it. Thanks for the assistance!